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Doug Moe: Plethora of puns, paintings

MOE KNOWS: Before calling a moratorium on college prank recollections, I’ll share Madison attorney David Relles’ tale from the 1970s. As Relles notes, “The statute of limitations has passed.”

In the early ’70s on the UW-Madison campus there was a mini-scandal involving the selling of term papers. A company had actually taken out an ad in the Daily Cardinal offering harried students a chance to buy, rather than write, term papers on a wide variety of subjects….