Thursday, September 7,' 1972
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Thursday, September 7, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY rage live
plagiarism
turns professional
By HERMAN TWINKLE
Student plagiarists last year
were able to turn to commercial
termpaper services instead of
relying on friends or fraternity-
sorority files.
Traffic in purloined papers,
however, has not proven ex-
tremely profitable. Two of the
three localtermpaper business-
es, Creative Research and Term
Papers Unlimited, discontinued
business during the summer, and
it is not known whether they
will resume business in the fall.
The third; Write-On, has diversi-
fied and now offers copying serv-
ices, trips to Europe, engraved
T-shirts, and has plans to sell
stereo tapes.
Some professors have taken
measures to control plagiarism
by making Xerox copies of
papers, sharpening up and limit-
ing choice of paper topics, and
checking up on bibliographies.
"The number of cases involv-
ing plagiarism that lave come
to the attention of the Adminis-
trative Committee of LS&A are
on the increase, with more cases
than a year ago," explains Eu-
gene Nissen, secretary to the
literary college's internal disci-
plinary committee.
Students who are discovered
as plagiarists may be brought
before the committee. "Faculty
members are encouraged but not
required to bring cases to the
administrative committee," Nis-
sen explains. It is his impression,
however, that most cases are
not reported.
Last October, two students in
a liteiary college English class
handed in identical Write-On pur-
chased papers. They were re-
ported to the administrative com-
mittee. Nissen said that "tradi-
tionally the administrative com-
mittee has not released to the
public results of any single
case." So it is unknown what
penalties were handed out. He
did say that "generally the re-
sult is either failure for the par-
ticular paper and disciplinary
probation, or an "E" for the
course with an asterisk next to
the grade which carries the no-
tation: assigned by action of the
administrative committee." The
By MERYL GORDON
The University Cellar, a stu-
dent owned and operated store
located in the basement of the
Michigan Union, is an example
of what students can do when
they really want something.
Sponsored by Student Govern-
ment Council, the store first
opened as a small shop in the
Student Activities Building in
January 1969. It sold school and
art supplies and records. In the
fall the store moved to a room
in the Mi'chigan Union and ex-
panded its services to include
"We don't want to be just
any store. The Student Cel-
lar has been developed by
people working together,
and we should be able to
come up with good internal
working conditions ...
Xerox machines, underground
newspapers, and more supplies.
Students worked with the Re-
gents in fall, 1969 for the crea-
a signo oe
tion of a student bookstore, but
controversy broke out in the
form of a sit-in at the Literature,
Science and Arts building over
control of the bookstore. Several
students were arrested at the
sit-in. The action resulted in the
present Bbard of Directors,
which consists of six students,
three faculty members, and one
administrator.
Successful in its first year of
operation, the Cellar opened a
branch store at Bursley on North
Campus, in January 1970.
In August 1970 the main store
moved downstairs in the Union
to its present location and open-
ed to a massive fall rush. Stu-
dents appeared in droves at the
store, apparently preferring its
discounted prices and relaxed at-
mosphere to other'area stores.
The bookstore opened is a
part of the Cellar in January
1971. A state tax loophole (which
has since been closed) allowed
University-run stores to sell
books and school supplies with-
out charging tax, and the Cellar
was able to charge a minimum
price for its supplies.
The entire store, meanwhile,
had grown to include offset print-
ing, yarn and weaving g ods,
posters, candles, and many o iher
items of student interest. The
expansion of the store came rvp-
idly as students requested new
items.
In July 1971 the Cellar's Board
of Directors met and formally
set a policy calling for no con-
sorship in the Cellar's book se-
lection.
Previously, there had been an
informal policy not to promote
books which instruct persons on
how to make or use weapons.
Such books, although :'tey could
still be ordered, were not on dis-
play at the Cellar and were not
in stock unless specifically or-
dered.
Last winter, employes at the
Cellar created a Worker's Coun-
cil to deal with employe prob-
lems and customer-employe 're-
lationships. The workers at the
Cellar have been fighting the
alienation that comes from work-
ing for a large organization. As
one employe put it, "We. don't
want to be just any store. The
Student Cellar has been devel-
oped by people working together,
and we should be able, to come
up with good internal working
conditions."
,disciplinary probation or the as-
terisk can be removed in the
senior year if the student has
had an otherwise clean record.
The manager of Write-On, who
asked not to be identified be-
cause he has "been getting
phone. calls at four in the morn-
ing from people who are upset"
about students using the com-
pany's services, has said that
"as far as I'm concerned, it
(selling termpapers) is a pain
in the neck. The only way a
company that does termpapers
can survive is to offer other
services."a
Write-On is part oi a larger
corporation with 26 branch of-
fices around the country. Al-
though all branches do not offer
term-paper wv r i t i n g services,
those that do maintain standard-
ized terinpaper files and a staff
of writers.
Student Supples
at
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Weekly business in Ann Arbor
runs about $200 a week for term-
papers-less than average-ex-
cept during rush periods like
final exams when the income
may approach $500 to $1,000.
Fees for authors run from
$2.25 to $5.00 per page, the latter
being for an overnight rush,
eight-page paper for a graduate
sociology course at Wayne State
University.
Write-On's local branch man-
ager says that only 10 per cent
of, its termpaper business comes
from students at this University,
with 40 per cent from Eastern
Michigan University, 30 per cent
from Wayne State University,
and the remainder from Oak-
land University, University of
Detroit and other schools.
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