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COLLEGE PARK. Md.--The faculty council of the University of Maryland voted last month to establish an independent coalition to organize the fight to unionize the faculty at the University...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Coalition Formed To Fight For Union | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...most colleges, students are failed forthwith when caught submitting ghost work as their own. But few are caught. Only a handful of states (including Maryland and Pennsylvania) have specifically outlawed campus ghostwriting for profit. New York has one of the toughest laws, threatening fines and jail terms of up to 90 days for ghostwriters who help college students with assignments. So far officials have found the law difficult to enforce. New York prosecutors first won a court injunction against Collegiate Research Systems Inc., the target of last week's raid, in 1978. Company President John Magee, 29, responded with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Straight A's at $3.50 a Page | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...that day's highlight will be Frank Sinatra's Inauguration eve gala at the Capital Centre in Maryland. Some 19,000 have been invited to pay from $50 to $10,000 (for a ten-seat box) to see OF Blue Eyes put on a show that will include Johnny Carson, Debby Boone, Donny Osmond, Ethel Mer man, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An $8 Million Shindig | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Benbow and Stanley decided to compare boys and girls who excel at math. In six separate "talent searches" conducted from 1972 to 1979, they tested a total of 9,927 students from schools in Washington, D.C., and five states (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania). To be eligible the students had to score in the upper 2% to 5% on a standard math test. As part of the study, the students, seventh-and eighth-graders, took both the math and verbal sections of the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Boys and girls performed equally well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Gender Factor in Math | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Tangerine Bowl, December 20, at Orlando, Fla.: Maryland (8-3) versus Florida (7-4). The Terrapins' Charlie Wysocki should run wild, but the Gators have the better squad. Together with the home field advantage, Florida's superior talent and the experience of playing tough games (it held second-ranked Florida State close last weekend) should push the Gators over...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Get Bowled Over | 12/13/1980 | See Source »

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