Posted on 10/12/2007 11:15:43 AM PDT by Froufrou
That explains it all..............
Give him a break. After all, he cried.
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I wonder what would happen if a certain unspecified female presidential candidate’s thesis was run through turnitn.com. I wonder further how current writing by powerful MSM “reporters” would similarly fare.
“In an interview with the committee, Poshard said he couldn’t recall “hearing instruction on the meaning of plagiarism’’ but simply thought it was intentionally stealing others’ work. The committee found there was no definition of plagiarism in the graduate student handbook at the time.”
The janitor’s wife never buys brooms or mops, either.
Glenn Poshard in some hot water.
Well, yes, he did cry and should get due credit for that. He also tipped his hat to the importance of feeeee-lings. So he gets another point.
But did he bite his lower lip? Did he say anything at all about the chil-run? Nope. That's why he's a disgrace to any liberal university and should go.
Uh, would you mind defining "mop"? I can't find it's definition in my FR handbook. Thanks!
So, a faculty memeber feels that his institution is “...deeply disgraced...”
Sorry, professor. If you’re part of a liberal arts faculty, you are discraced by definition. Your courses are largely jokes and students receiving your “degrees” are suckers who paid good money for bad indoctrination. Yup, I know that this all-inclusive statement is not correct. However, it appears that statistically, it is largely correct. Prof, suck it up and get a real degree in physics, chemistry, engineering, math...you know - those courses that actually require an IQ to pass. Then you can impart actual knowledge to humanity.
If the concept and rules of plagiarism is alien to a man by the time he’s in post-grad schooling... I’d think the real investigation should be in how he got into the program.
Did he earn his initial degree or did he copy off others then too?
BS... how can this university remotely claim authority to chastise and punish and expell students for plagerism when it let its own President off the hook for it?
Liberalism means no integrity and no respect. Alumni should shut off all funding to this university until this jackass is gone.
Obviously the trustees are not going to do anything.
~snorrfle~
I don’t care if he sobbed buckets, I have no patience for anyone who can’t keep their ‘op cits’ and ‘ibids’ straight!
I mean really, how much effort does it take?
Just a minute, I’m looking up ‘op cit’...
;o) But yeah, I’d check his other degrees, too.
I voted for Poshard...cause I knew what George Ryan was.
Good point. The academic rigor of his instructors and department advisors might also be a fruitful avenue of inquiry. I’m betting it would reveal a bunch of third-string bozos handing out degrees like crackerjack prizes.
Whether plagiarism was defined in the student’s guide or not is irrelevant. The dictionary is still a useful tool when one is unsure of a word’s definition/meaning.
“Give him a break. After all, he cried.”
He and George Voinobitch should get together!
“Inadvertant plagiarism” is akin to “smoking without inhaling”, or being an “unindicted co-conspirator”.
There is simply an air about them suggesting a less than entire probity. One would think the University would favor someone more ... dignified.
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