03-31-2011, 09:56 AM
(03-31-2011, 04:56 AM)ham Wrote: Klein’s line was “I did the paper according to the instructions received, submitted my paper, it was marked by a university professor, end of story. What is the big deal?”
The fact that he passed the class proves why Klein is so damn smart. He obviously avoided any non-politically correct thought crimes in his paper. He just copied the approved viewpoint: Allende the Marxist = Genius, wonderful, progressive, etc. So what if Klein forgot to change a word in every sentence; every sentence he stole was an approved sentence. If he had actually done any independent thinking or failed to support the party line, then he would have been in some real trouble.
Has anybody checked the prof's syllabus for plagiarism? I bet it was copied verbatim and without attribution from some other prof's syllabus.
I once googled some idiotic comment a prof made on one of my papers and found it was verbatim from the über verboten Wikipedia. The only standard in higher ed is no standard. If it's good enough for Comrade Putin it's good enough for you and me.