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This past fall, the instructors in Sociology 189, “Law and Social Movements,” used Turnitin.com to scan students’ work as part of a plagiarism-detection pilot program run by Harvard’s Instructional Computing Group (ICG). The nine-year-old Web site, which added an admissions-essay service in 2004, has screened 27,000 admissions essays and found 11 percent to contain at least one-quarter of un-original material, according to The Wall Street Journal...
Under the program—which the CWD Web site says would “limit the impact of dog recreation on water quality”—Cambridge citizens looking to unleash their dogs at the Fresh Pond Reservation would have to obtain a special canine medallion...
...with Water Department officials on February 13 to discuss and endorse the program, the full transcript of the report only reached the council’s agenda this week. Although the council has yet to formally approve the program, CWD has already begun accepting medallion applications on its Web site...
...issue of access and having enough seats and centers for all students kept us from launching the new test,” ETS spokesman Tom Ewing said. ETS undertook the effort to revamp the GRE in the wake of security concerns. Some test questions began showing up on Web sites in Asia about five years ago. Ben Baron, vice president of graduate programs at Kaplan Test Prep, said that the ETS decision was largely beneficial for students—who now don’t have to worry about preparing for a new, longer test—but that security...
...sponsoring with Harvard Media Ventures, students are being challenged to create a new logo that embodies the center’s stating mission of supporting student group initiatives. The winning designer will receive an iPod as well as a paid job designing SOCH’s new Web site, according to SOCH Manager David R. Friedrich. The selected design will then be used on T-shirts, Nalgene bottles, and other SOCH paraphernalia. Media Ventures President Margaret K. Hsu ’08 said the competition will allow students to be further involved in the center, particularly after some undergraduates...