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Reports that University of Ottawa business professor Jimming Lin was found guilty of plagiarizing a graduate student's paper. The university found liable; Amount of compensation to be paid to the student.

Presents the results of a student procrastination study,conducted by Fuschia M. Sirois, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and Timothy A. Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology in the university. Tendency of procrastinators to have unhealthy patterns of sleep; Link of procrastination with avoidant coping styles; Rates of smoking and alcoholic drinking among procrastinators.

Presents news briefs on higher education as of September 3, 2004. Action taken by the University of Newcastle in New South Wales to fight propaganda campaigns being waged against its minority and international students; Information on a solar-car accident involving killed Andrew Ford, a student of the University of Toronto in Ontario; Dismissal of professor Huang Zongying from Peking University in Beijing, China for extensive plagiarism.

Provides international news briefs on colleges and universities as of February 8, 2002. Accusations of the leaders of School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa that the country's leading media conglomerate is practicing censorship; Plan of the governments of Newfoundland and Canada to quintuple the number of foreign college students in Newfoundland and Labrador; Fines given by a Tokyo court on Waseda University.

Provides news on some universities around the world as of November 17, 2000. Challenge posed by British Broadcasting Corp. to the Open University in Great Britain; Affirmative action issue among Swedish state universities; Goal of Robert Birgeneau, president of the University of Toronto in Canada, for a fund raising campaign.