haha I just read that first chapter on Saturday! I wasn't intrigued enough to buy, though...looked too antecdotal for my tastes, but the author lays out some interesting ideas in that first chapter. It reminded me of being in Rome and how everybody kind of takes the laws as 'suggestions.' I'm almost through
The Dark Heart of Italy, and the author talks a lot about a similar culture in Italy, tying together the corrupt government, cheating footballers, bureaucracy, and everyday cheating.
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)
four weeks pass...
This should be required reading for anyone preparing to enter either the public or private sector of the American working force. As he stated at the begining of the book, he didn't intend to have all of the answers to solve the problem (evidenced by the anticlimactic final chapter), but the book is intended as the opening line of a much needed discussion. Buy this book, pass it around.
― hereandnow, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)
three months pass...
Reviving because of this storyA student who admits down-loading material from the internet for his degree plans to sue his university for negligence.
Michael Gunn claims his university should have warned him his actions were against the regulations.
The Times Higher Education Supplement reports that he was told on the eve of his final exams that he would get no marks for his course work.
The University of Kent at Canterbury says students are warned about plagiarism.
Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, told the Times Higher: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem.
"I can see there is evidence I have gone against the rules, but they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished.
"If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough.
"But all my essays were handed back with good marks and no one spotted it."
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 29 May 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)
"No one caught me murdering all those people. How dare you send me to jail!" I mean... uh. He knew he was plagiarising, end of story really. Mind you it wouldve been better justice to see him enter the world with his degree in which he learnt nothing for himself and then struggle and fail in his chosen profession. Slowly and painfully. But I'm evil like that.
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 29 May 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)