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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Your source is problematic, OP.

I'll wait until it hits the mainstream news.
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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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. 
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