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Quote from: RatGuy on April 26, 2024, 04:22:45 PMI'd like to bang colleague's head.

Student submits final essay with 98% similarity. Student emails "I matched with myself. I asked my English professor if I could turn in the same paper I wrote for you to him too. He said it was ok." Stu forwards email exchange confirming. The English prof said something like "welp, it looks like you got lucky that the essay you'd write for him works for my prompt. Go ahead. [Ratguy] won't mind."

In what world is this ok?

If he submitted it to you first, so it was "unique" for you, I don't see it matters if someone else accepts it later (knowingly) for something else. If it was submitted to the other person first, then it's a different story. It's hard to tell which is the case, since the match presumably happened just after submission for your course, whereas the other prof's response suggests it was submitted for your course earlier.

If it meets the requirements and it's original work to him, then I wouldn't mind.

In my business classes I have had students use the same project for different classes. They could reuse some bits, but there were other pieces that had to be done for one class but not the other.

Quote from: Hibush on April 26, 2024, 05:52:39 PM

Quote from: apl68 on April 26, 2024, 12:38:41 PM]

Were I a graduating senior (or parent of one), I'd be very unhappy with the activists who brought this about.

If I were a parent who had traveled for commencement, I might consider occupying the presidents office (or the SVP of alumni relations and development) in protest of a stupid response to student engagement with the improtant issues of the day.

So if the ceremony continued, would the graduating protesters drop their signs and put on their robes for graduation, and then go back to protesting after? That would be hilariously hypocritical.

Morning!

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Puzzling between packing and flights. Happy solving!

Quote from: RatGuy on April 26, 2024, 04:22:45 PMI'd like to bang colleague's head.

Student submits final essay with 98% similarity. Student emails "I matched with myself. I asked my English professor if I could turn in the same paper I wrote for you to him too. He said it was ok." Stu forwards email exchange confirming. The English prof said something like "welp, it looks like you got lucky that the essay you'd write for him works for my prompt. Go ahead. [Ratguy] won't mind."

In what world is this ok?

If he submitted it to you first, so it was "unique" for you, I don't see it matters if someone else accepts it later (knowingly) for something else. If it was submitted to the other person first, then it's a different story. It's hard to tell which is the case, since the match presumably happened just after submission for your course, whereas the other prof's response suggests it was submitted for your course earlier.

Quote from: Langue_doc on April 26, 2024, 07:14:36 PMTook a detour to a birding hotspot and was rewarded by a sight of more than 200 birds, either nesting or gathering nest materials--snowy egrets, great egrets, glossy ibises, white ibises, yellow-crowned night herons, black-crowned night herons, a couple of little herons, and great blue herons, but mostly egrets and ibises.

Sounds like a fascinating place!  Probably pretty scenic, too.

Relative, a documentary by Tracey Arcabasso Smith on Amazon Prime. Multigenerational sexual abuse within her family. Really good film. Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXpsCAWIw6M&ab_channel=GravitasVentures

None that I could see.   What will you do here?

The boneheaded decision to cancel the valedictorian's speech is the root of this particular issue, a numbskull adminiscritter's foolish desire to appease potentially offended-by-the-as-yet undelivered speech.

The potential that it sounds fake is because when people go into too much detail about something, it's often that they're lying and trying too hard to make up an excuse. "I wasn't out late with Emily, honey — it's just that I remembered we didn't have any milk so I stopped at the grocery — um, but I didn't bring back any milk because, um, it turned out they had run out of milk so I asked at the front desk if they had any more back in storage, and, um, so they had to get the manager and it took a long time, and, um..." It's a kind of running on that people do when they're stuck for an excuse. So if you give a dozen details about why you have to go, not only is it dull for the listener, but it's the kind of overuse of detail that's often associated with trying too hard to make an excuse. It comes across as weirdly inappropriate to the situation, as well as trying the listener's patience.

Quote from: apl68 on April 26, 2024, 12:38:41 PMNow USC has cancelled its main graduation ceremony entirely:

This is the kind of stuff that hardcore Republicans love to hate and talk about endlessly.