Since the origin of the essay, educators have fought mightily against the pest called plagiarism. With the introduction of the World Wide Web as a common student resource, the battle has intensified.
Experts blame such websites for a rise in cheating on college campuses.
At Virginia Tech, for instance, cheating incidents rose from 80 in 1995-96 to 256 last year, according to a Sept. 1998 New York Times article. Here on campus, however, it is unclear whether the websites have created a major plagiarism problem. Gary Pavela, director of the Office of Judicial Programs, said he believes students are aware of the sites, but he has not seen an increase in cheating cases as a result of them. Other sites don't. The slogan of Schoolsucks.