Word: paper
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Having made such warnings, the companies assert that research-on-demand is a legitimate educational aid, not unlike Cliffs Notes. But the line between the two is clearly not so fine. In their investigation, B.U. officials posed as students needing a paper to submit for an English class. The clear intent to plagiarize did not stand in the way of the transaction. In some cases papers were even provided to students with a cover page noting the student's name, the professor's name and the date. If only Cliffs Notes were so helpful...
...companies are wise to raise questions about free speech, since there is an argument to be made that banning the sale of such papers sets a dangerous precedent. But presumably the district court will not be misled. The ability of businesses to capitalize on plagiarism has nothing to do with individual expression, and as such has no place under the banner of free speech. Term paper companies point out that a large portion of their business consists not of students but of other businesses seeking to have research done for them. If this is the case, they ought...
Twenty-five years ago, B.U. was successful in winning an injunction against term paper mills, and then in having such sales outlawed by the Massachusetts legislature. Hopefully, the federal courts will now allow this restriction to carry over into cyberspace. The rightful case of 'Net policy will preserve the integrity of work in Massachusetts high schools and colleges from the opportunistic entrepreneurs using the Internet to evade a decent...
...sees some hope in the entrepreneurial, and unregulated, wireless-phone industry, in which falling prices threaten to undermine conventional service. "The young crowd comes in sneakers, and doesn't have a lot of paper; all they really have is a good idea," he says. "When a Bell company shows up, they bring 20 pages of documents, 15 lawyers, hold a press conference and complain about the FCC before the TV cameras...
...March 1997 alone came to $20,000. The total March bill for her office, including various support services, came to just over $36,000, enough to pay the salary of a mid-level teacher for an entire year--this in a district where some principals claim they cannot buy paper for their copy machines. In the first nine months of the 1996-97 fiscal year, the school system overall spent $2.5 million to comply with the consent decree, including $6,129 for carpeting, $97,996 for printing--and this tantalizing entry: $40.18 for "drugs...