Are you aware that Congress has a Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, which deals with postsecondary issues of all sorts, including financial aid, work force development, and the like? With the recent change in the House, new leadership has been chosen. Representative Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, will lead the subcommittee and has a very interesting background that should suit her well as she moves forward. Foxx spent much of her pre-Congress career in higher education, starting as a secretary at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching and administrating at Caldwell Community College and Appalachian State University, and ultimately serving several years as president of North Carolina's Maryland Community College. As we prepare to participate in the plagiarism teleseminar, I wanted to share some interesting feedback from discussion on the POD Network's listserv. Sandra Enders, Housatonic Community College, suggests that asking students to write from personal experience can often stem the allure of cheating. Asking your students to provide a personal essay that is not graded at the beginning of the semester and is usually done in class also provides an excellent measuring instrument for all future assignments. We at the Center suggest that you ask students to make oral presentations along with any research paper they submit. The class should include time for questions from the other students. It is difficult for someone to defend something they did not write. We are now in week two of classes at LU. Have you given a test, quiz or some sort of assignment that required a grade and feedback from you to your students? If not, I encourage you to do that no later than this week. It allows the students to begin to understand what you are expecting of them and it allows a clearer profile of each student to begin to emerge for you.