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Boston University has filed suit
against eight companies in seven
states for allegedly selling term pa-.
pers over the Internet to a law cleric
posing as a student.
The lawsuit, filed Oct. 20 in fed-
eral court in Boston, charges the
companies with wire fraud, mail
fraud and racketeering and with vio-
lations of a Massachusetts law that
prohibits the sale of term papers.
The university said it was the
first federal lawsuit brought by a
university over the sale of term pa-
personline. ..
"We will take whatever steps are
necessary to preserve the integrity
of the academic process," BU Presi-
dent John Westling said.
The term paper providers named
in the suit responded that they make
the documents available for research
only, not to be submitted as original
material. Most also said they have
disclaimers to that effect on their
Web sites and also send a written
warning with the materials as well.
BU General Counsel Bob Smith
said BU officials are not aware of
any instances in which a student at
the university submitted a term pa-
per purchased on the Internet, al-
though he said -tljat faculty have
expressed concern after seeing ad-
vertisements for such services.
Source:The Baylor Lariat, Oct. 23,
Former VA Tech prof
may be linked to KKK
Virginia Institute of Technology
president Paul Torgenson asked a
special committee to investigate pos-
sible Ku Klux Klan ties of prominent
figures in Virginia Tech history —
Professor Claudius Lee, who had a
dormitory named after him, and busi-
nessman O.M. Stull, who invented
the university's "Hokies" nickname.
A student in a class on the history
of the university, which is celebrat-
ing its 125th anniversary this year,
discovered the possible Klan links
last month while looking through
an 1896 yearbook, Virginia Tech
spokesman Ixirry Hincker said.
One page lists the members and
officers of what appears to be a cam-
pus chapter of the Klan. The year-
book lists Lee, a student at the time,
j)'s leader, or "Father of
t error." The yearbook designates
Stull. a student officer, as the "Right
Hand of Terror." The yearbook lists
the group's "favorite amusement"
as "midnight field sports,"
Lee was editor of the yearbook in
18%. when the university was still
an all-male military institute. He later
became an electrical-engineering
professor and taught at the univer-
sity for 50 years. He died in 1962, at
age 90, and, in 1968, the university
named a dormitory after him.
As a student, Stull wrote a cheer
that won a contest and started Vir-
ginia Tech's "Hoktes" nickname,
which comes from the cheer's re-
frain, "Hokie-Hokie-Hokie-Ho." He
died in 1964.
University officials said Nov. b
that they were unsure whether the
yearbook fisting had been a joke or
had chronicled an actual organiza-
' tion on the campus. Yearbooks be-
fore and after 1896 make no refer-
ence to the Klan. Hincker said.
On Nov. 4,Torgersen, appointed
a three-member committee to find
out whether the yearbook listing
reflected a real Klan group and to
recommend how the university
should respond to the matter.
Hincker said that people who
knew Lee and Stull said neither had
exhibited racism. But some students
on the campus have expressed dis-
may that a dormitory had been
named after a man who might have
had ties to the Klan.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher
Education Online, Nov. 6.
Med school objectives
broaden, stress ethics
Medical school graduates'should
be as familiar with the financing and
delivery of health care as they are
with the science, according to a draft
report released Nov. 4 by the Asso-
ciation of American Medical Col-
leges.
This is among the 27 goals for
the medical school experience out-
lined in the report produced by the
association's Medical School Objec-
tive Project.
"Most medical schools currently
use several of the objectives out-
lined in the report," President of the
medical school association Jordan J.
Cohen said.
"But very few of the schools have
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In praising the report, Kenneth
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at Washington University in St.
Ix>uis, said the objectives take into
account what he sees as the three
most significant changes in health
care today: the predominance of
chronic diseases like diabetes over
acute illnesses such as lung cancer,
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information and the shift in the
health-care field from abundant re-
sources, prevalent for most of the
20th century, to resource con-
straints.
"This report is right in tune with
what is necessary for medical edu-
cation and medical practice in the
21st century," Ludmerer said.
The release of the draft report
marked the completion of the first
phase of the association's project on
t he objectives of medical education,
an effort that began in 1996.
During the second phase, medi-
cal schools will be asked to use the
report as a guide in reviewing and, if
necessary, reforming their curricula.
Seventeen medical schools have
already^begun experimenting with
the new objectives, which include
understanding the cultural fact6rs
that contribute to certain illnesses
and knowing the major ethical di-
lemmas that physicians encounter,
as well as the theories and prin-
ciples that govern ethical decision-
making.
The ability to communicate ef-
fectively, both orally and in writing,
with patients and their fatriTlies and
with colleagues in the field is also an
objective.
Source The Chronicle of Higher
Education Online, Nov. 5.
MAES, from Page 1
conference with similar career fairs
and technological seminars. To fund
the trips, the group will try to hold
fundraisers, although students will
probably have to pay about $100
each. Van Horn said.
For now, MAES will continue
tutoring local high school students
and showing them Rice University's
campus. The group's main objec-
tive remains keeping young Mexi
can-Americans interested in engi-
neering and science. "Too many
Mexican-Americans switch majors
to humanitiestir English rather than
finishing their intended engineer-
ing or science studies," Van Horn
said. "We want to prevent that."
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Professor of Mechanical En,
neering and Materials Science
Enrique Barrera and Professor of
Computational and Applied Math-
ematics Richard Tapia sponsor
MAES. Barrera is the Jones College
master. Tapia, a member of the
Board of National Science, received
the Hispanic Engineer of the Year in
1996.
"Our sponsors are awesome, and
this has helped usgrow. We've gone
from maybe three members five
years ago to approximately 30 now."
Maldonado said. ITiis growth makes
Maldonado optimistic for the future.
Her hope is that MAES continues
growing and expanding their yearly
accomplishments.
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Ricelnfo sites to move to new
SA server for easier access
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total control," he said.
Many sites on the Ricelnfo serv-
ers will move to the SA server in the
'It's under [the
students'] total
control.'
— Arun Jain
Rice Information Technologies
©coming months. Before such moves
occur, the committee hopes to an-
swer basic questions of software,
system backup, user management,
security and advertising, while also
developing the overall look and feel
of the site. Rakesh Agrawal, a lead-
ing member of the KRC and Sid
Richardson College senior, said, "It
should have better design-find orga-
nization than Ricelnfo."
If the launch of the server goes,
well, the committee "could become
an organization of its own with a
major link to the Student Associa-
tion," SA Executive Vice-President
Bill Van Vooren said. The DNS en-
try, or name of the Web server, has
not yet been determined, but the
committee hopes to create a catchy
name that can spark interest in the
site. Van Vooren said, "Most suc-
cessful systems have either one cool
word or an acronym-type thing."
"SAWire" seems to be a popular
choice right now, but the committee
is open to suggestions
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