COLLEGE "RESEARCH" HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER -- by Steve Nadis
I was doing a search on the web the other day and, by chance, came across an article of mine about Mars that ended up on the so-called "College Research" website (http://www.collegeresearch.us/). I have no idea how it ended up there and don't know if they went to the bother of purchasing the rights from the magazine in question (New Scientist). For a student looking for a nifty paper topic, my article was a relative bargain: You could read it and other "essays" for just $9.99, as part of a 1-month membership, or $19.99 for a 3-month membership. But if you want to purchase a pre-written term paper, you'll have to shell out some big bucks. "The Rise of Muslim Science and Astronomy," for example, will set you back $136, payable by credit card or online check. And 'custom-written" term papers, penned by their staff of professional writers, can be even more costly--up to $50 per page on a rush basis.
None of this was possible, of course, when I was a college student. Nobody spent hundreds of dollars buying illicit term papers; instead we spent hundreds of dollars buying illicit drugs. And if we wanted to cheat on our assignments, we had to do it the way our parents did it, and their parents before them: good old-fashioned plagiarism. Best of all, the cost was free.
