December 17, 2004

Professor Copycat

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Plagiarism is the gravest sin in the academy -- or so we have been told. Stealing someone else's words and passing them off as your own is the lowest of the low in a realm where scholarship is king.

But when the conversation turns to individual cases, the room falls strangely silent. The same professors who constantly bemoan their students' lax attitudes toward plagiarism

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