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Date: Dec 9, 2004

An idea for SFT--plagiarize

Date: Dec 9, 2004

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120804/met_17389178.shtml

Date: Dec 9, 2004

Quote from the Jacksonville story:

"This appears to be, and is, a state of emergency, but it's not the end," Jenkins told students and faculty . . .. "This is a new beginning."

Wow. Jenkins has a bright future in the spin school of public relations.

Date: Dec 9, 2004

There is a story on this school in today's Chronicle of Higher Education, much of which sounds eerily familiar:

"[the school] has struggled against various setbacks in recent years . . . "

"[the president] tried to paint a positive gloss on the crisis . . . "

"When the plagiarism was disclosed by the Times-Union, [the president] admitted that the copying had taken place but blamed it on a senior administrator who has since left the college . . ."

The president "is credited with raising enrollment . . ."

"This past spring, the college drew unwanted publicity when it fired five senior administrators in what it called a 'restructuring,'" one of whom said "they had been given no reasons for their dismissal, but alleged that they had been forced out to prevent them from disciplining a popular student accused of [falsifying her transcript] . . . "

There's at least one hopeful, buck-stops-here note in the article:

"[When the president and other officials were summoned to Atlanta], "they apparently were unable to convince the agency that the copying was an innocent mistake . . ."

(I believe my own quotation of this article is brief enough to fall within "fair use"; someone please advise if not.)

Jameela

Date: Dec 9, 2004

i read both the chronicle's and the jacksonville paper's stories. it's a sad tale of what a lot of smaller historically black universities go through. i heard a story of one in the dallas area where buildings on campus were literally falling down.

Date: Dec 9, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Jameela Lares
"(I believe my own quotation of this article is brief enough to fall within "fair use"; someone please advise if not.)"

Well, don't trust me, Jameela, because I think copying a CD of every concert on a Bob Dylan tour is "fair use"

But thanks for posting these excerpts.

I remember during the Generalissimo's reign, someone graffitoed a construction fence around the then-new Johnson Tower with the phrase "McCain Plagiarizes"...

Where is good ol'

Night Chalker™

?

Date: Dec 9, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Jameela Lares
"This past spring, the college drew unwanted publicity when it fired five senior administrators in what it called a 'restructuring,'" one of whom said "they had been given no reasons for their dismissal . . . There's at least one hopeful, buck-stops-here note in the article: "[When the president and other officials were summoned to Atlanta], "they apparently were unable to convince the agency that the copying was an innocent mistake . . ."

Be careful where you walk in the academic barnyard lest you stop in the deja vu.

Date: Dec 9, 2004

Invictus,

I really do you!

Date: Dec 9, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Bittersweet
"Invictus, I really do heart: you!"

I'm not Invictus!