Posted on 09/29/2014 7:58:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA
AUGUSTA Lawmakers on the Education Committee split along party lines Friday in rejecting the governors nomination of conservative blogger Susan Dench of Falmouth to the University of Maine System board of trustees.
I think they value partisanship over diversity of opinion, Dench said after the 8-6 vote.
Democrats on the committee questioned her writings and positions on social and educational issues, and heard testimony from one speaker who accused Dench of plagiarism, an allegation Dench denied.
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One speaker at Fridays hearing, the chairwoman of the English department at the University of Southern Maine, said Dench had plagiarized long sections of a Free Republic website post about the true lesson of Thanksgiving.
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Maybe they can get Biden to endorse her..
Anybody the section of Free Republic post about Thanksgiving that she supposedly plagiarized?
I had no idea that my posts on Free Republic were copyrighted.
” Dench had plagiarized long sections of a Free Republic website post about the true lesson of Thanksgiving.
That’s it?
That’s all they got?
>> One speaker at Fridays hearing, the chairwoman of the English department at the University of Southern Maine, said Dench had plagiarized long sections of a Free Republic website post about the true lesson of Thanksgiving.
Apparently Jane Kuenz reads FreeRepublic. Does she also post here? On what does she base her plagiarism claim? http://usm.maine.edu/faculty
I don’t know if this is it, but I posted this last year
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3096653/posts
Maine RATS read FR? wow
“I had no idea that my posts on Free Republic were copyrighted.”
Any original writing you do is copyrighted, even if you don’t register it with the government.
However, I don’t know if FR has some fine print that would give FR the rights to any blog posts made here, I think they could do that if they wished to. Perhaps a lawyer will chime in here.
She really should have given credit where it was due, but her choice of sources is excellent.
Absolutely. You enjoy automatic copyright even without a copyright notice.
Doesn’t appear that she pilfered anything from your posts.
I once lifted a quote from Mark Steyn for a tagline - and didn’t have room to give attribution. When someone commented on how great the tagline was I didn’t clear up the issue. Reading a post like this is difficult.
As the Ferguson’s gentle giant’s mother would say... ‘we all make mistakes...’ On that she’s right. Repentance is good for the soul... sorry Mark Steyn I was wrong.
No, but she’s still a fan of mine.
Guilty, I’m sorry to say. Great find !!!
The true lesson of Thanksgiving, as told by The Free Republic and Governor William Bradford, is that communism doesnt work:
I missed that, yes, she did cite a source ...
Thanks for finding that.
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