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You’re Doing It Wrong
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Students at the University of Texas-San Antonio were asked to draft a section on plagiarizing, for the student honor code. They ended up lifting the plagiary section from BYU’s honor code word for word, without attribution.
Up next: Have them write a paper about irony!
(Hat tip: Jonathan Blanks)
Hey, it was an A paper, man. And we paid good money to get it, too, from a perfectly respectable paper mill.
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don’t get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony’s not really a, a high priority. We haven’t had any irony here since about, uh, ‘83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.
I hope it was done tongue in (malicious) cheek, and not someone thinking they were sly.
I would’ve done the same thing, only I’d have copied it from Harvard. Of course, I’d have done it as a joke, or Easter Egg, to see if anyone would find it, and for it’s value in irony.
When I was in college, I knew an idiot who whited out the identifying headers and footers in a World Book Encyclopedia article and turned in a photocopy as his “paper.” Everybody said his dad was some friggin’ gillionaire in Chicago who had to buy Sonny Boy’s way into the University of Arkansas because he was too stupid to get in anywhere else. I remember the guy’s first and last names, but I don’t know if his middle initial is W.
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