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Quote from: EdnaMode on Today at 06:14:06 AMDoes he really think he should earn points because he didn't intend to do it incorrectly? Ugh. I've heard a lot of excuses over the years, but this at least is a new spin on things.

I swear all of my plagiarists say this and seem to assume that I'll just automatically say "Well, that's all right then, no penalty for you!"  I do know they get really indignant when I don't say that.

Participation trophies are so 90's; intention trophies are where it's at now! Who cares about all that pesky effort; after all, it's the thought that counts.

Quote from: EdnaMode on Today at 06:14:06 AMDoes he really think he should earn points because he didn't intend to do it incorrectly? Ugh. I've heard a lot of excuses over the years, but this at least is a new spin on things.

I swear all of my plagiarists say this and seem to assume that I'll just automatically say "Well, that's all right then, no penalty for you!"  I do know they get really indignant when I don't say that.

Updates on the Columbia Universtity situation:

QuoteLive Updates: Police Arresting Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Columbia
Officers began arresting students on Thursday, a day after university officials testified about antisemitism before Congress.

QuoteIn Congress, Columbia's Leaders Try to Please. At Home, They Face Anger.
For Columbia's president, Nemat Shafik, a hearing on antisemitism went relatively well. But on campus, intense protests suggest a difficult road ahead for the university.

QuoteRep. Ilhan Omar's Daughter Suspended for Involvement in Columbia Protest

QuoteHundreds of protesters occupy South Lawn, call for divestment from Israel during Shafik testimony
The group began to pitch tents in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Isra Hirsi, the Democratic congresswoman's daughter, was part of a tent-encampment, organized to protest the war in Gaza, that has escalated tensions on campus.

Keystone College is on the verge of shutting down:

https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/accreditor-requires-keystone-college-to-prepare-plan-for-potential-closure/article_a40f1e44-a414-5e48-858e-27a767ba0ad8.html

Oh sure, they can always take measures to sanction or try to prevent speech that they fear will prove problematic.  But their measures, however lawful or in accordance with written procedure, will often court the sort of backlash from some quarters that they had hoped to prevent from others.

We just got a batch of donations that included a whole armload of paperbacks about alien abductions.  And the collected works of Erich von Daniken, and a book on out-of-body experiences.  And the novelization of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which at least professes to be fiction.

This all turned up anonymously on our doorstep.  Which is just as well, since sometimes when somebody donates a bunch of material on the same subject all at once it makes me feel like I've just learned too much about that person....

Quote from: fishbrains on Today at 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies.  Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.

Good morning/afternoon!

QB with doomy as my last word, tried in desperation. Today I got to QB, but only with SBB help for the last two words. It took me an age to find the pangram.

LB: I also had wrung-goldfish. No 2fer yet today—lots of good words, though. If only I could make them line up!

Happy puzzling!

Students don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

Good morning!

Got the pangram right away but just now got to genius.  Yesterday husband got QBABH, but it took him forever to get the pangram (which I thought was a terrible one... is that really a word?!).  He helped me with mayo, edema, dammed.

I also got wrung-goldfish, finally, at the end of the day.

Happy solving!