You do realize that if this is truly a sign of the Apocalypse, then surely Bush will win this election? ;^>
(And thank you for the explanation, I've lived here all but one year of my life and had no idea what the big deal was about either!)
Recently someone mentioned having seen or heard about a performance of Jabberwocky in ASL. I'm enrolled in ASL classes right now so I was interested in finding this tape and sent out a few e-mails. Here's a response I got today for anyone who's interested:
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Other than livejournal, I've been spending a lot of time at the NaNoWriMo forums lately (www.nanowrimo.org), especially the Character & Plot Realism Q&A (although some of the questions make me want to get snarky).
I've only ever visited this site once, but my hubby and I spent about an hour last night showing each other funny videos and pictures:
http://www.funnyjunk.com
This one was the best:
http://www.funnyjunk.com/movies/3/Matrix+Ping+Pong/stream/large
Cheated himself out of three years of an education that is. Yes, I can spell tonight ...
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the professors didn't even read any of his papers themselves. They were probably read and graded by TAs who wouldn't recognize a plagarised paper if it jumped off the table and screamed "Cheater cheater!" at them. The problem is that TAs aren't invested in the education of the students. Some of the professors aren't either. They're likely invested in their tenure, and little else.
I agree that Gunn has something of a point. He should have been caught well before now. There's a poetic justice to TNH's suggestion too, but the people who didn't catch Gunn's plagarism the first three years would be the same people reading (or not reading) his work the second time around - so what would be the point?
The problem, as I see it, is where everybody's values are. The university, and the professors who allowed him to pass these three years need to take a serious look at how he was able to cheat them for so long. The university probably only cares about whether or not Mr. Gunn pays his tuition on time. The teachers probably only care about whether or not the university pays their salaray. If anybody really cared about whether or not Mr. Gunn, or any other student, was getting any value out of his education, he would have been caught much earlier. I know that those are overgeneralizations, and that there are people out there who really care about their students' education. Unfortunately, I've become jaded lately and don't believe that institutions on the whole care about anything beyond their bottom line. The work that would be necessary to realign everybody's values with what they claim their mission to be would affect their bottom line. I don't believe they're willing to do it. And they're certainly would not be able to do it in time to re-instate Mr. Gunn.
In my mind, real justice demands that he loses everything. He cheated himself out of three years of an eduction, he deserves to lose it all. Re-instating him feels too much like rewarding him for being sleazy and weasely enough to blame the university for his deliberate attempts to cheat the system.
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