Plagiarizing Off the Internet Is So 1996
Laura K. Pahl, a student at Eastern Illinois University, is a plagiarist.
I didn’t even read the paper [I'm not enough of a student of Hindu culture and religion to get many of the jokes], but that some college student thought she could get someone to write a paper for her in 2005, a year smack in the middle of the nascent Weblog Era, and not have the other person on the end 1) mess with her and 2) get her caught? Wow.
She gets whatever punishment the school metes out to her. We get a little Schadenfreude in the meantime.
Posted March 29th, 2005 in Humor.
Anthony: I don’t think that it falls to the standard of entrapment at all. The guy gave her plenty of outs.
March 30th, 2005 at 10:11Seriously, how can you entrapped if the paper contains the following statements (which also happen to be my favorite from Nate’s masterpiece):
“I made a doody.”
“…and if a Shudra watches dharma and greg, it will have a positive effect on his karma,…”
Too funny.
March 30th, 2005 at 14:49If the girl doesn’t even at least skim the paper (I mean it was what,..5 pages?), and turns it it sight unseen, I don’t think she has a leg to stand on, honestly.
Like the author said, it’s no different than if you were to try to sue someone for not being a ‘good lookout’ for you while you were robbing a house. I think those people who are empathizing with her really need to open thier eyes and look at what’s going on here. A crime is a crime. I bet they’d feel a LOT different if he were ‘assisting’ her with a more serious crime then a trivial (though be it deceptive and destructive) one.
Yet another example of wussification of a nation.
March 31st, 2005 at 08:17As someone once said (whoever it was I stole it fair and square): “Plagiarism is the best ‘ism’.”
for further guidance see:
April 1st, 2005 at 10:51http://www.eiu.edu/~english/student/plag.htm