Delasantellis on Realtors' Latest Lobby Effort
From his Asia Times column:
Cheating still beats real work
By Julian Delasantellis
Asia Times
July 2d, 2009
A colleague recently relayed a story about her experience as an observer at a faculty/student disciplinary hearing for a pre-law undergraduate charged with cheating.
Apparently, this young man had come around to the belief that, when it came to engaging in conduct that could get him expelled, in for a dime-in for a dollar. Just in the space of a single term, his teachers had found him copying from a test, rifling through the course’s graduate assistant notebook looking for a test, and, word for word, punctuation mark by punctuation mark, lifting without attribution a large section of a Wikipedia entry on “jurisprudence” for a research paper.
“How do you answer these charges?” asked the earnest student prosecutor, who, both my colleague and I agreed, can be expected to be next seen on TV in Kevlar helmet, flak jacket, frameless glasses and FBI windbreaker when the government takes down another religious compound in 2017 or so.
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Kevin Carson says:
July 2, 2009 at 5:31 am
Hey, I can top that one. When I was in college (in the early ’80s, before digital cutting and pasting was an option), this kid waited till the night before his term paper was due and xeroxed an entire encyclopedia article (with page headings whited out), typed a cover page, and handed it in under his byline.