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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 1, 1972
THE BATTAUC
Move under way to curb activities of term paper companm
A move is under way in a small
but growing number of states to
curb what is becoming a success
ful service industry in college
towns from the Ivy League to
the Pacific Coast—merchandising
term papers on the open market.
In the California Legislature,
the New York courts and the
Massachusetts attorney general’s
office, public officials backed or
goaded by college authorities are
moving against young entrepre
neurs who are getting rich by
churning out other people’s home
work.
Ever since a pair of pioneering
brothers launched a Boston term
paper factory 18 months ago and
extended its operations to 49
other branches nationwide, more
than 100,000 papers have been
sold to students and the number
of competing firms is proliferat
ing.
“I am helping students over
come the busy work and repeti
tion and wasted time of going
from shelf to shelf and page to
page doing term papers in which
no learning is involved,” says
Ward Warren, 23, who with his
brother, Kenneth, 27, founded
Termpaper Research Unlimited
Inc.
The brothers say they did $1.8
million worth of business last
year.
Termpapers Unlimited and the
others advertise openly in campus
newspapers — “Are you cramped
for time ? Let us help you,” reads
one ad — and reach students who
pay from $2 to $6 a page for
documented research on topics as
varied as Aztec social structure
to Zambian foreign policy.
Directors ok
appointments
of faculty, staff
The A&M Board of Directors
Tuesday approved the service of
13 faculty and staff members to
appointive positions on boards
and committees of state and local
government.
State law requires such for
mal approval, university officials
explained. None 9L the positions
involves financial j ycopipensation,
and some - of the individuals are
being reappointed to positions
previously held, the officials
noted.
Paul R. Kramer, director of the
Texas Forest Service, was given
approval to accept an appoint
ment to the Technical Advisory
Committee of the Texas Air Con
trol Board.
Dr. Johannes van Overbeek,
head of TAMU’s Biology Depart
ment, received similar authoriza
tion to serve on the Governor’s
Advisory Panel on the Uses of
Agricultural Chemicals in Texas.
Other state appointments in
cluded David A. Anderson of the
Texas Forest Service to serve on
the executive board of the Texas
Advisory Committee on Conser
vation Education and C. P. Dugat,
also of the Texas Forest Service,
to serve on the Soil Conservation
Service’s Board of Directors in
Hardin County.
Appointments to the Tax Equal
ization Board for the City of
College Station were approved
for Edwin S. Holdredge, mechan
ical engineering professor, and
William ,A. Smith, forestry spe
cialist for the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service. John A. Hais-
let of the Texas Forest Service
and John B. Beckham, associate
dean of science, received board
approval to serve on the city’s
Parks and Recreation Committee.
Approval to serve on the Board
of Equalization for the A&M Con
solidated Independent School Dis
trict was given to W. B. Lancas
ter, payroll services manager,
J. C. Redman, power plant super
intendent; and Dr. C. B. Ryan,
poultry science professor.
Appointments to the Vocational
Advisory Committee for the Bry
an Public Schools were approved
for Pete Rodriguez, administra
tive assistant in the Chemistry
Department, and S. A. Kerley,
director of the Counseling and
Testing Center.
Fashion show
planned for
Thursday
The Student Veterinary Wives
Auxiliary is sponsoring a fashion
show in the Ballroom of the Me
morial Student Center at 7:30
p.m. Thursday.
The show will consist of spring
and summer fashions from Bever
ley Braley in Townshire Shopping
Center and shoes from the Col
legiate Shop.
The papers are composed by
ghostwriters, including m o 0 n -
lighting faculty members, grad
uate students and technical writ
ers—many with M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees—who sign agreements re
linquishing their rights to their
works.
“We've given these trained
people a better way to make
money and the students have
access to a clearing house for in
formation,” said Ed Whalen, 29,
a former English instructor who
is vice president and chief editor
for Creative Communications
Consultants in Urbana, 111.
The ghostwriters get anywhere
from $2 to $5 a page for their
products.
This view—and the practice of
peddling term apapers — is the
target of a measure introduced
by California Assemblyman Jim
Keysor that would make it a mis
demeanor to sell term papers to
students in higher education in
stitutions.
“This bill is against the sellers
and not against students,” said
Keysor, a Granada Hills Demo
crat. “I think getting it passed
could be a little tough because
people will argue you can’t legis
late morality.”
The reaction of educators and
administrators to the term paper
business has been mixed, ranging
from violent opposition to philo
sophical re-evaluation of the ef
ficacy of term papers.
Harvard Dean of Students Ar
chie Epps calls the term paper
companies “a blot on the con
science of American institutions
of higher learning” and an offi
cial at Southern Illinois Univer
sity said the firms reflect “a
breakdown in the relationship be
tween faculty and students.”
On the other hand, David J.
Carson, dean of students at Bab-
son College in Massachusetts,
Ward Warren’s alma mater, sees
the term paper companies as a
spur to new thinking.
“Perhaps there will be some
serious and beneficial gains out
of all this if it causes some re-
evaluation of the whole process
of which term papers are a part,”
he said.
Ward Warren said students
seem to have no second thoughts
about buying a term paper. He
told a story of a freshman who
bought and submitted as his own
wor ka five-page paper entitled,
“Why I Woudn’t Use a Profes
sional Term Paper Writing Serv
ice.”
Not every student is apofc
customer, Warren said, andli
papers Unlimited occasional];
vises would-be clients to lit
work themselves if the pa;*
a short one.
Would he himself purclia
term paper prepared by a)
mercial service? Warren
asked.
“No, sir,” he replied wii
straight face. “I’ve gotania
to protect.”
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