Professor posted plagiarist names in his blog (and was fired by his university)

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<p>Yes, the problem is that the professor broke the law.</p>

<p>What the students did definitely was wrong, and they deserved to fail the course and possibly even to be suspended from school. The professor, however, was wrong in revealing what they did to the public.</p>

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<p>Plagiarism is such an emergency.</p>

<p>Plagiarisers have a need to be ****ing pwnt.</p>

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<p>He did not state their marks or grades. He simply stated those who plagarized. It’s the same as stating who got first for sprinting the 100m in high school PE class. Except this time the students are shamed. </p>

<p>Secondly, the administrators did read his syllabus and approved it. </p>

<p>Third, if he did in fact break the law then was he tried by any legal system? If so, was he found guilty? Only the university claimed that he broke the law.</p>

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<p>agreed with the others. He deserves it.</p>

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<p>“Plagiarism is a serious violation. The problem lies in the possibility that the professor is WRONG.”</p>

<p>Update on Connecticut Court Case — The expelled student has been vindicated.</p>

<p>[Judge</a> Vindicates Expelled CCSU ‘Cheater’ – Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-copykid1205.artdec05,0,1850173.story]Judge”>http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-copykid1205.artdec05,0,1850173.story)</p>

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<p>^What a nightmare that young man went through!</p>

<p>I hadn’t ever heard about this kind of situation: 2 people pointing the finger at each other and claiming that the OTHER person is the plagarist and they were the original author. </p>

<p>“Although the court is at a loss as to what motivated Duquette to plagiarize Coster’s paper, the evidence established that Duquette acted recklessly when she did so,” Scholl wrote. "She also acted recklessly when she failed to disclose the truth about what she had done in the face of the charges leveled against Coster by CCSU and Coster’s eventual expulsion.</p>

<p>“Although it does not appear that Duquette could have contemplated such a result from her efforts to simply get a good grade in Dr. Moss’ course,” the judge continued, “she did nothing to rectify the situation when she had an opportunity to do so, but instead continued to claim the paper as her own to protect her own status at the university, all to Coster’s severe disadvantage and harm.”</p>