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Sex workers’ art show held at College of William and Mary
The College of William and Mary recently hosted a Sex Workers’ Art Show, despite criticism from some for allowing the program, which highlighted strippers, prostitutes and other sex-industry workers, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

President Gene R. Nichol initially asked students to relocate the event to a venue off campus. However, Nichol later said this decision would have been a violation of students’ First Amendment rights and academic freedom. The show is scheduled to visit more than a dozen college campuses this winter.

Harvard professor’s paper removed from journal for plagiarism
A Harvard University professor’s paper has been removed from a medical journal after it was discovered that part of the paper’s content was plagiarized, the Boston Globe reported. The journal, Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology, removed Lee S. Simon’s 2004 paper on arthritis treatment after it was discovered that Simon, an associate clinical professor of medicine, copied work from a paper by Roy Fleischmann, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Simon’s article was one out of 70 papers discovered by a group of researchers at Texas Southwestern that could be the products of plagiarism.

—Katie Dunn

 
 
 


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