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Affordabletermpapers.com charges a minimum of $9.95 per page for a custom-written essay. Rush jobs cost $24.95 a page. The site, which dutifully states that its papers should be used for "assistance purposes only"--uh-huh--guarantees that customers won't run into trouble with plagiarism or they'll get their money back and a free rewrite. There are hundreds of online paper mills like this one, catering to all the stressed-out, disaffected or just plain lazy students with Internet access and a credit card or money order. But just as the Internet has made it easier for kids...
Aside from the guilty-until-proved-innocent argument, many students are apoplectic that a for-profit entity--which charges 87˘ per student per year for plagiarism detection--is making money off their homework. As soon as a paper is vetted for cut- and-paste plagiarism, it joins a database against which every new submission will be compared. Thus, argues a recent Op-Ed in the Texas A&M newspaper, the company should have to pay to use these works, "without which their service would be crippled." Concerns about intellectual-property rights as well as cost led the University of Kansas...
...trying to bring down Turnitin by suing its parent company, iParadigms, for alleged copyright infringement. To file such a lawsuit, a writer has to pay $45 to register a copyright, be it for a Pulitzer prizewinning novel or a ninth-grader's meanderings on Animal Farm, and the penalty per copyright violation can be as much as $150,000. So if the McLean High School students prevail with their copyrighted essays--a trial will probably begin this fall--ambulance- chasing lawyers will start tailing school buses, and Turnitin may have to close up shop...
While the most recent edition of the University of Central Florida’s Racial and Gender Report Card (2005) estimates that 20.6 percent of NCAA Division I scholarship athletes are black, Harvard’s recruited athletes—who cannot receive scholarships as per the rules of the Ivy League—do not come close to such a percentage...
...clip of .359. Murphy was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and first team All-Northeast.If Murphy’s heroics are going to continue though, she is going to have to produce against the Pride’s star sophomore pitcher Kayleigh Lotti. Lotti is averaging 9.88 strikeouts per seven innings, good enough for top 15 in the nation. Lotti was named Colonial Athletic Conference pitcher of the year and after winning her last 16 decisions seems primed for another impressive weekend. And, just as Madick can count on Murphy to go deep, Lotti has her own long-ball...