Thursday, September 7,' 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Nage Fve 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 FOLLETTS Just Spend it Madly' 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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