Saturday, December 16, 2006

And now, a moral dilemma...

You've just spent the semester at the local junior college with a student in your class who's just spent the entire semester writing about how he wishes he were still in the Corps, and how wrong it was that they threw him out just because he seemed to enjoy killing just a bit too much. But, hell, wasn't that why they wanted him in the Corps to begin with? And just because you install a camera on your scope and save all the pictures doesn't mean shit. That, and and every paper he's written was about how he can't stand pretty much anybody in authority, never could, including every teacher he's ever known, except maybe for Mrs. Francis in the first grade, because they all lie and are out to screw you over, and ain't it just about time that somebody put their sorry asses down?

What do you do when you discover that his final paper is not only a little bit plagiarized... you know, the "I can see how you could get confused" kind of plagiarism, but it's a whole lot plagiarized? You know, the "photocopy the entire thing out of the textbook and white out the author's name and write in yours -- before the white out was even dry" kind of plagiarism.

I mean, really, what do you do?

2 Comments:

Blogger The Lorax said...

Run.

Fast.

And remember to dodge and weave. None of that straight-line is fastest crap. Make him work for it.

Or... Hello? SGF PD? Yes, I'd like to report a man carrying in fertilizer and big white jugs to his backdoor.

2:52 PM  
Blogger thinkingthings said...

Pass this one off to the Dean. That's what those extra letters after his/her name are for. Oh, and make sure your address is unlisted, and hope that the dude doesn't know how to spell your name.

Happy trails to the southern hemisphere--think positive, crazy boy won't follow you there!

2:56 PM  

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