UMD President's serious plagiarism comes to light

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Your source is problematic, OP.

I'll wait until it hits the mainstream news.

He confessed.

"While I am steadfast that our results, data and findings are sound, I acknowledge recurrent language in the introductory sections.”

He copied a few pages of background material.

Does that change the core of the paper? No.

Was it a cowardly and dishonest way to fill space and set the context of the paper? Yes.

Is it claiming credit for someone else's expository work? Yes.

If he were the president of some successful tech firm, I guess a slap on the wrist might do. Companies care about product and profit, not academic integrity. But a university president? What is UMD going to do if students plagiarize their 1/3 of their papers from internet sources? How can you justify punishing students if you let this go? So shady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Your source is problematic, OP.

I'll wait until it hits the mainstream news.

He confessed.

"While I am steadfast that our results, data and findings are sound, I acknowledge recurrent language in the introductory sections.”

He copied a few pages of background material.

Does that change the core of the paper? No.

Was it a cowardly and dishonest way to fill space and set the context of the paper? Yes.

Is it claiming credit for someone else's expository work? Yes.

If he were the president of some successful tech firm, I guess a slap on the wrist might do. Companies care about product and profit, not academic integrity. But a university president? What is UMD going to do if students plagiarize their 1/3 of their papers from internet sources? How can you justify punishing students if you let this go? So shady.

Paper integrity is dead. Thanks to ChatGPT (which President Pines or his anonymous faculty used last week to produce an "analysis" of the Palestinian flag), I'm sure students are already plagiarizing 1/3 of their papers.

[Anonymous]

It's plagiarism, like Claudine Gay and those administrators that crashed and burned after her. How on earth do you justify that? Especially when these schools have honor codes and strict plagiarism rules? its the ultimate hypocrisy to defend such conduct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://dbknews.com/2024/09/18/pines-denies-plagiarism-accusations/

The degree of intentional copying is, unlike some recent high profile cases, NOT minor and cannot be chalked up to an unintentional mistake due to carelesses. He (and his coauthor) copied nearly a 1/3 of his 5000 word academic paper from an Australian student's website in 2002 with no credit to the real author. He only changed the spelling from Australian convention to American spelling. If you look at side by side comparisons, there can be no doubt about plagiarism. Clearly unethical, clearly cheating. Any undergrad student, or even high school student, should know better. He should acknowledge he made a serious error of judgment and step down immediately, and the university needs to stop defending him.

100% agree

[Anonymous]

bye bye

[Anonymous]

He has really become a disgrace for my alma mater. I am so glad my kid is done with UMD in December

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has really become a disgrace for my alma mater. I am so glad my kid is done with UMD in December

Why exactly? MIT gave him the PhD and allowed him to plagiarize freely, not UMD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has really become a disgrace for my alma mater. I am so glad my kid is done with UMD in December

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+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has really become a disgrace for my alma mater. I am so glad my kid is done with UMD in December

Why exactly? MIT gave him the PhD and allowed him to plagiarize freely, not UMD.

This is not MIT’s fault. This happened way back in 2002. Plagiarism detectors did not exist back then. Someone would have had to notice this copying from ann obscure website and turn him in.

[Anonymous]

Is the data and results his own?

Were the results correct and methodology sound?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Your source is problematic, OP.

I'll wait until it hits the mainstream news.

He confessed.

"While I am steadfast that our results, data and findings are sound, I acknowledge recurrent language in the introductory sections.”

He copied a few pages of background material.

Does that change the core of the paper? No.

Was it a cowardly and dishonest way to fill space and set the context of the paper? Yes.

Is it claiming credit for someone else's expository work? Yes.

What message does this send to UMD students? If he plagiarized and apologized, and still retains his position, that's a terrible message to the students. He needs to step down.

-parent of UMD student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the data and results his own?

Were the results correct and methodology sound?

He still plagiarized. He should've given credit to the quotes when he used the words verbatim.

Our MS kids even know to do that. Stop making excuses for liars.

Remember how people were outraged when Melania Trump plagiarized parts of Michelle Obama's speech?

This is worse because he's in academia, leading a college where academic dishonesty can get you kicked out of college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the data and results his own?

Were the results correct and methodology sound?

He plagarized from an Australian person's website - did he also plagarize the results and the methodology? If he got the introduction from somewhere else, where did he get the substance of the report? If you can blame his co-author, did he actually do any of the writing himself or just fraudulently attach his name?

Most importantly, all of us who do the work ourselves but constantly feel we are not good enough, how do we get the chutzpah to apply to be a university president?

[Anonymous]

If allowed to stay, then UMD needs to reinstate or otherwise compensate any student or faculty member punished for plagiarism by UMD.

Or, at the very least, accept as a valid defense to any charge of plagiarism that the dishonest academic was just following the boss' example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has really become a disgrace for my alma mater. I am so glad my kid is done with UMD in December

Why exactly? MIT gave him the PhD and allowed him to plagiarize freely, not UMD.

No, he was a professor at UMD since 1992, during all of his known plagiarism incidents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryll_Pines