Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look like graduates of Rydell High School, class of 1959, where Grease is set, and they all wallow in the golden-oldies atmosphere. Laughter cascades over the footlights with every reference to "making out," exchanging school rings, going to proms in strapless dresses, stuffing Kleenex into bras and using fake ID cards to get into bars. But behind the laughter is bemusement. "They can identify with it all," says Casey, but he adds, "They are astonished that this is the past already...
...people of Indochina the same powerless relationship to the American government. In our protests we have tried to make this clear. We find the notion of lobbying our supposed representatives in Washington laughable, for they are almost as powerless as we: the Gulf of Tonkin resolution--passed under fake pretenses--was repealed last year and the illegal war continues. We have tried to focus our protest on Nixon and him alone; we have disrupted and will continue to disrupt targets linked to the Federal government because we are trying to send Richard Nixon a message; we are saying that...
...Fake Term Papers
...their teachers, without as much as a footnote mention of where the material was obtained. A graduate student often undertakes a portion of his profs research. This may be published by the faculty member with no recognition of grad-student contributions. Perhaps the ultimate irony is that occasional fake paper submitted to a free-enterprising faculty member who goes on to publish...
...mentality that creates a market for fake term papers flourishes in most of our schools −all for the noble purpose of charting the smoothest and least scholarly route to a diploma and a job. This is a far cry from the original idea of a university as a haven where those individuals who sincereley wanted to pursue a topic could do so. If students by the thousands can take these short cuts through the groves of Academe and later perform satisfactorily in their careers, perhaps they did not need to enter the groves in the first place...