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Quote from: financeguy on Today at 09:11:21 AMTwo things can be true at the same time. If it is the case the plagiarism has occurred but only uncovered due to an outside actor with a different agenda, what do you propose? Let it slide due to the method of discovery?

This is the bottom line.

Yes, there are bad faith actors at the root of this, but the plagiarism is a problem that merits some degree of sanctioning nevertheless.
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The State of Higher Ed / Re: J.D. Vance: "Sanctuary Cit...
Last post by Ruralguy - Today at 01:42:18 PM
My guess is that these morons are really thinking about contractors, that is, people who do construction work on campus or maybe some of the people in the dinning facilities. Probably most are documented. I wouldn't be surprised if occasionally some aren't.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Thoughts Anew
Last post by waterboy - Today at 01:31:26 PM
3...2...1...gender discussion
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General Discussion / Re: RIP: To remember those los...
Last post by hmaria1609 - Today at 12:57:06 PM
Former Senator Joseph (Joe) Lieberman at age 82
I met then Sen. Lieberman during a Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Manchester, NH. It was spring 2002. I had been home for spring break and was heading back to my college. Some well-wishers greeted him at both airports and a NH state trooper met him at the baggage claim.
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General Discussion / Re: RIP: To remember those los...
Last post by Langue_doc - Today at 12:36:03 PM
QuoteRichard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.

A controversial sculptor, but I liked his Schunnemunk Fork at The Storm King Art Center, which I think is the perfect background for gigantic works of art.

ETA:
QuoteSchunnemunk Fork, a site-specific commission, is installed in a ten-acre rolling field with a natural border of nearby woods, which, at the time of the work's construction, was the southern edge of the Storm King property. When Richard Serra surveyed Storm King's grounds and chose the site, it had never before been considered for its artistic potential. He arrived at his final composition through a complex process that involved consulting both topographical maps and a surveyor, as well as walking the grounds with his wife, Clara Weyergraf-Serra. The work consists of four weathering steel plates set lengthwise and inserted into the ground at designated intervals. Each plate is eight feet high and two and a half inches thick; lengths vary from thirty-five to almost fifty-five feet. Roughly a third of the length of each rectangular plate is visible; the remainder is buried in the earth. The visible angles correspond to eight-foot drops in the terrain. The title refers to the four-pronged scheme of the piece and references nearby Schunnemunk Mountain.
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General Discussion / Re: RIP: To remember those los...
Last post by Langue_doc - Today at 12:30:08 PM
Not everyone's cup of tea, but RIP David Breashears.

QuoteDavid Breashears, 68, Who Braved Everest to Capture It on Film, Dies
He risked death on the slopes of the world's highest mountain to produce the highest-grossing IMAX documentary of all time.
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General Discussion / Re: What Have You Read Lately?...
Last post by apl68 - Today at 12:23:06 PM
I read Into Thin Air some years ago.  It made me wonder why on Earth anybody would ever want to climb Everest.  I've also read his Into the Wild, about a poor, deluded would-be adventurer who wandered off into the Alaska wilderness and starved to death.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Thoughts Anew
Last post by apl68 - Today at 12:19:05 PM
In today's paper I saw a health-related feature that mentioned that testicular cancer is more prevalent in men.  Who knew?
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General Discussion / Re: Re: What Have You Read Lat...
Last post by Langue_doc - Today at 12:16:30 PM
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on Today at 11:49:36 AM
Quote from: Langue_doc on Today at 11:41:30 AM
QuoteAlive:  The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read.  In 1972 an aircraft carrying an Uruguayan college rugby team crashed in a snowy wilderness high in the Andes.  When searchers failed to find them, the survivors faced months of struggling against avalanches, blizzards, and more with nothing like adequate clothing or other gear.  They had no food, and had to force themselves to eat the bodies of their friends who had perished in the crash.  Eventually two of them made a desperate trek out of the mountains to get help.

I recall reading about this book, but didn't have the stomach to actually read it. You might like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, an account of the ill-fated 1996 Mt. Everest expeditions.


There was a movie about the Alive story, also called Alive.


On Krakauer: a good counterpoint is Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb. Boukreev is Krakauer's villain, but nobody on his expedition died and he went back several times to save others. Krakauer, on the other hand, (as I recall) refused to share his oxygen.


I read Boukreev's account as soon as it was published, and also Krakauer's postscript addressing the criticisms, several of them valid, in one of the later editions. I like Krakauer's style of writing, so have enjoyed reading some of his other books--Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, and Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town.

ETA: If you like reading about mountaineering, you might have seen David Breashears' film on Mt. Everest. Some of his photographs of Everest are on display in the Asia Society's "immersive photography and video exhibition", COAL + ICE. I saw the exhibit just a week before his death, which was around the middle of this month.
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Quote from: Langue_doc on Today at 11:41:30 AM
QuoteAlive:  The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read.  In 1972 an aircraft carrying an Uruguayan college rugby team crashed in a snowy wilderness high in the Andes.  When searchers failed to find them, the survivors faced months of struggling against avalanches, blizzards, and more with nothing like adequate clothing or other gear.  They had no food, and had to force themselves to eat the bodies of their friends who had perished in the crash.  Eventually two of them made a desperate trek out of the mountains to get help.

I recall reading about this book, but didn't have the stomach to actually read it. You might like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, an account of the ill-fated 1996 Mt. Everest expeditions.


There was a movie about the Alive story, also called Alive.


On Krakauer: a good counterpoint is Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb. Boukreev is Krakauer's villain, but nobody on his expedition died and he went back several times to save others. Krakauer, on the other hand, (as I recall) refused to share his oxygen.