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Delegation traveling to Middle East over Feb. break

by Ruth Orbach | 01/29/2008

A student-organized trip to the Palestinian territories-primarily funded by former President Jimmy Carter's 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Fund- will take place during February break, said Justin Kang '09, one of the trip's organizers.Rising to the challenge set forth by former President Jimmy Carter in his speech at Brandeis last January, the students will travel to the West Bank and Israel in an attempt to have a diverse experience and make connections, Kang said.From the $30,000 budget for the trip, $28,500 is being provided by Carter's fund for cameras and books to be used on the trip, among other supplies, and an additional $1,000 came from the Peace Awards, Kang said.

Admin considering service to detect plagiarism

by Ruth Orbach | 11/20/2007

After a pilot program last spring yielded mixed results, the University has put on hold plans to use Turnitin.com, a commercial Web service, to detect plagiarism, Library and Technology Services officials said.In the summer of 2006, Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe formed a committee to discuss and implement turnitin.com for professors to use to determine if a student's paper bears significant similarity to other sources.

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