
Ohio U. Student Left In Greece After Alleged Plagiarism
An Ohio University student was left to find her own way home from Greece after being found guilty of plagiarism on a study abroad program at sea.
Allison Routman, an Ohio University senior from Minnesota, along with a student from California Baptist University, were expelled from Semester at Sea, a program sponsored by the University of Virginia, for plagiarizing from Wikipedia.
“When we first arrived at the ship, they explained the honor code to everyone,” Routman said. “But it is a very complex system, especially for those who don’t go to U. Va. and are unfamiliar with how it works.” [Ohio University's The Post]

Free Digital Texts Begin To Challenge Costly College Textbooks in California
The annual college textbook rush starts this month, a time of reckoning for many students who will struggle to cover eye-popping costs of $128, $156, even $198 a volume.
Caltech economics professor R. Preston McAfee finds it annoying that students and faculty haven’t looked harder for alternatives to the exorbitant prices. McAfee wrote a well-regarded open-source economics textbook and gave it away — online. But although the text, released in 2007, has been adopted at several prestigious colleges, including Harvard and Claremont-McKenna, it has yet to make a dent in the wider textbook market. [LA Times]

CSU Fitness Study Pits Wii Boxing Against Real Thing
Sweat drips down Renee Mershon-Wollerman’s face as she eyes a boxer across the ring.
She ducks left, punches. Her opponent, a Japanese amateur, throws an uppercut. Mershon-Wollerman counters. Jab. Right hook. Her opponent hits the canvas and doesn’t get up.
Mershon-Wollerman goes to a neutral corner, but there are no high-fives, no celebration. Just a simple request from her trainer, Kristen Perusek: Pause the video game for a second and rate yourself on an exercise exertion scale. [Cleveland]