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Reports that University of Ottawa business professor Jimming Lin was found guilty of plagiarizing a graduate student's paper. The university found liable; Amount of compensation to be paid to the student.

Reports on the controversy surrounding a Holocaust-themed cartoon published on the April 21, 2004 issue of "The Medium," an alternative student newspaper at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Request of Rutger president Richard L. McCormick for the newspaper staff to apologize for the cartoon; Features of the newspaper; Obligation of the university to honor the First Amendment rights of all students groups and publications.

The author reports that, according to a major study of academic misconduct in Canada, cheating, deceit and plagiarism are common on Canadian campuses. The study, performed by Christensen Hughes of the University of Guelph in Ontario and Donald L. McCabe, of Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, is similar to one that found widespread cheating among graduate students in the United States and Canada, particularly among M.B.A. students. A report based on the Canadian study will be published in the November issue of "The Canadian Journal of Higher Education." The surveys also showed that 46% of faculty members and 38% of teaching assistants had ignored suspected cases of academic misconduct citing a lack of proof.

The article reports that Andre Gunder Frank, a West German teaching at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, who has been denied entry to Canada on four occasions has received permission from the country's new Conservative government. The government has revealed that Frank may attend the International Congress of Americanists in Vancouver, British Colombia, where he has been invited to present a paper. The decision represents the government's effort to reverse Liberal policies.

Presents news on higher education as of November 2004. Announcement of the Australian government of its plan to take control of public universities away from the states and put them under federal authority; Release of the new rankings of Canadian colleges by "Maclean's" magazine; Sentence given to a Japanese university club leader who organized gang rapes and participated in the rapes of three young women.

Provides international news briefs on colleges and universities as of February 8, 2002. Accusations of the leaders of School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa that the country's leading media conglomerate is practicing censorship; Plan of the governments of Newfoundland and Canada to quintuple the number of foreign college students in Newfoundland and Labrador; Fines given by a Tokyo court on Waseda University.

Provides news on some universities around the world as of November 17, 2000. Challenge posed by British Broadcasting Corp. to the Open University in Great Britain; Affirmative action issue among Swedish state universities; Goal of Robert Birgeneau, president of the University of Toronto in Canada, for a fund raising campaign.

Focuses on Nunavut Arctic College in the Baffin Island town of Iqaluit, capital of Nunavut (Northwest Territories), which teaches students the Inuit language, customs, history, and way of life. The hands-on approach of the lessons; Description of seal hunting with one class; Description of the two faculty members, Susan Sammons and Alexina Kublu; Comments from students and faculty.