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AROUND ACADEME

BC prof accused of plagiarism
The Rev. William W. Meissner, theology professor at Boston College, committed “a serious breach of professional and scholarly standards” by plagiarizing sections of his book about ethics in psychoanalysis, according to an article in the Boston Globe.

The finding comes after a year-long investigation, by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, prompted by complaints from Ernest Wallwork, the author whose work was plagiarized. Wallwork had previously complained to the SUNY Press, who published Meissner’s book, but after their own investigation, the press had concluded there was no wrongdoing on Meissner’s part. Boston College is currently conducting its own investigation.

Study: Law students not prepared for job search after graduation
According to a recent study of law students across the nation, half of them feel that their school has done little to help prepare them to enter the competitive job market after graduation.

The survey was conducted by Indiana University, by the same researchers who produce the National Survey of Student Engagement. Further results are available on the Web at www.iub.edu/~nsse/lssse/.

Group against affirmative action moves for ban in college admissions
The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative submitted a petition reportedly containing more than half a million signatures in support of a statewide ban on affirmative action in college admissions and government hiring. The petitions, if certified to contain sufficient signatures under state law, would add a measure to the 2006 election ballot to amend Michigan’s constitution to prohibit the use of racial or gender bias in admissions and hiring for the state’s public universities.

Government Accountability Office sued over cuts in men’s sports
A group called the College Sports Council has filed a lawsuit against the Government Accountability Office, an investigative branch of Congress, for allegedly overstating increases in women’s sports and underestimating cuts in men’s sports in a 2001 report on collegiate athletics.

The lawsuit argues that schools have since used the GAO findings to further cut men’s sports in an effort to comply with Title IX. In 2003, the CSC petitioned the Education Department to update the data, but the request was denied and a separate lawsuit against one of the guidelines of Title IX was dismissed late last year.
—Susan Myers Smith
 
 


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