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"Many, many years ago one of my English TA officemates noticed that a student wrote 'writhing' instead of 'writing.' We spent the rest of the afternoon inserting 'writhing' into textbook titles ('Writhing with a Purpose') and other phrases like 'technical writhing.' My favorite: 'writhing across the curriculum.'” --peg
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Cuomo Reported to Be Planning New Student-Loan Lawsuit and Agreements
After a long silence, New York’s attorney general is preparing a lawsuit against one student-loan company and is nearing agreements with about a dozen others.
Southern Cal Deletes Muslim Scripture From Web Site Following Complaint
The scripture, from Islamic texts knowns as hadiths, had appeared on the Web site of a Muslim-student group on the campus.
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April 25, 2006
A Day Later, Owning Up to Plagiarism
On Monday came the accusations (The Chronicle, April 24). Now come the apologies.
The chief executive of the Raytheon Company has admitted that he copied material for his popular book of management wisdom from a 1944 book by an engineering professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, The New York Times reported this morning. The businessman’s euphemistic explanation: He did “not properly credit” the earlier work.
Meanwhile, the Harvard University sophomore accused of lifting material for her debut novel from a 2001 novel, apologized on Monday, and her publisher said it was investigating, The Boston Globe reported. The student’s euphemistic explanation: “I may have internalized” words from the other novel, and “any phrasing similarities” were “completely unintentional and unconscious.”
Her agent even topped that: “As a former teenager myself, I recall that spongelike ability to take popular culture and incorporate it into your own lexicon.”
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