Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal crackdown on fake term papers [March 27] is like fighting measles by using steel wool to scrub off the belmishes. The basic contradiction this business thrives upon is that students are required to write term papers of no use or interest to them. "Publish or pelish" on the professoriaal level becomes "compose or fail" on the student level. This term paper requirement, so irrelevant to real needs of most students, is just one more example of how the educational system is geared to academic, bureaucratic and corporate instuitions and not be the needs of the students...
Then came Dita Beard's disavowal of the memo that Anderson had published. That claim seemed at best peculiar, since Anderson's assistant had showed her the memo three weeks before, giving her plenty of time to denounce it. If the memo was a fake, why did ITT go to the trouble of shredding its documents in Washington? Early on, ITTs defenders went to some lengths to portray Mrs. Beard as a sometimes irrational incompetent. Having first tried to discredit her, they are hard pressed to defend what she says...
Name Dropping. Some fellow lobbyists in Washington believe that if the memo was a fake, it was one perpetrated by Mrs. Beard. Among the lobbying fraternity in the capital, where salaries for such work often climb to six figures, Dita Beard was virtually unknown; she earned only $30,000 and lived in a modest house in nearby Arlington, Va. Important lobbyists entertain in baronial houses, charter airplanes, give lavish cocktail parties. Dita Beard lived more like a suburban schoolteacher. Once a year, in ITT's name, she gave a small Christmas cocktail party for 30 or 40 people. Curiously...
From a modest beginning in the Boston area a year ago (TIME, April 19), the buying and selling of fake term papers has grown into a nationwide, multimillion-dollar business. Ads in major campus newspapers have attracted thousands of students, who pay the going rate of $3 per page on any subject from Donne's Holy Sonnets to the United Auto Workers. Although there are no reliable figures on the number of fakes turned in every month, many educators agree with Robert Laudicina, a dean of students at Fairleigh Dickinson University: "At this point, these term-paper mills...
Erdmann called the log a "fake." She also disputed Cronin's testimony that on the first day of the strike, waitresses had picketed within 12 inches of the restaurant's entrance, interfering with customers...