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Burzhui
03-28-2002, 11:44 AM
I got a kick out of this one, because i also submitted a plagarized essay to my ethics class :)
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Students Cheat Their Way to Ethics Essays
Thu Mar 28, 9:11 AM ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A group of Canadian engineering students took the art of cheating to its logical conclusion by plagiarizing an essay on ethics, embarrassed academics said on Wednesday.


Donald Russell, associate dean at Ottawa's Carleton University, said he would be dealing with 31 students who had been caught submitting essays cribbed from the Internet .

"We're disappointed this has happened in the course on ethics," he told CBC television, noting that those involved could be suspended or even expelled.

"Some of the (offenses) involve the entire document submitted, so they've taken parts of different Web sites, assembled them into an essay and submitted it as their own work," Russell said.

In one case, a student changed just four words in an essay taken from a Web site, he added.
Merlin
03-28-2002, 11:49 AM
Canadians, ya just can't trust 'em.
sbp
03-28-2002, 12:18 PM
Geez a whole 4 words eh?
BrewMaster
03-28-2002, 12:22 PM
bahahahaha! i love the irony of it all!
jase71
03-28-2002, 12:29 PM
Ship 'em on down to the US. We'll make 'em rich and powerful!

Looks like we've found the winners for the next round of Congressional elections. :P
whitak24
03-28-2002, 12:35 PM
Originally posted by jase71
Ship 'em on down to the US. We'll make 'em rich and powerful!

Looks like we've found the winners for the next round of Congressional elections. :P
the first thing they have to learn before they can be elected is how to bump off interns with whom they're having affairs.
jase71
03-28-2002, 12:39 PM
Originally posted by whitak24

the first thing they have to learn before they can be elected is how to bump off interns with whom they're having affairs.

No... the first thing they need to do is not to get CAUGHT bumping off their interns they're having affairs with. Only the inept ones make the news. The really good ones get away with it.

Besides... interns are small fry compared to the real power they can wield and abuse.

Of course, maybe these ones ARE destined to get caught with interns. They got caught with their essays. They didn't get away with it.

I guess they'll have to be state legislators instead... :P
whitak24
03-28-2002, 12:41 PM
Originally posted by jase71
I guess they'll have to be state legislators instead... :P
good points, jase.

however, i don't think the ones who got caught copying essays will even make it that far. i think they'll max out at county commission.

or if they are from a wealthy, politically connected family, they will go on to become president or something :heh:
jase71
03-28-2002, 12:50 PM
Originally posted by whitak24


however, i don't think the ones who got caught copying essays will even make it that far. i think they'll max out at county commission.


Ouch. That's cold. :P



or if they are from a wealthy, politically connected family, they will go on to become president or something :heh:

That's the great thing about America. Anyone can grow up to be an unethical president... from the best connected Yale student who's daddy had the job, to the poorest trailer park reject the rural South has to offer. ;)

Why, I just hope that some day MY son <sniff, sniff> can grow up to be investigated by an Independent Counsel. :P
whitak24
03-28-2002, 01:09 PM
Originally posted by jase71


Why, I just hope that some day MY son <sniff, sniff> can grow up to be investigated by an Independent Counsel. :P
yer killing me jase :heh: