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 governor’s 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 Friday’s 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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Hey y’all. I’m thinking that the great Rush Revere and the first patriots may also be involved and should be noted.
The issue would not be whether the material was copyrighted, but whether she falsely claimed authorship.* In academia, plagiarism is SRS BSNS.**
* I have no idea whether she did or didn’t.
** As well it should be.
Thanks for putting my original words in quotes.
Should I be relieved or insulted?
Thanks, Ray. Who knows, that could be it.
I remember it now that I see it. It was a good article.
Yes, I agree. This might seem to be a silly, trivial thing, as the issue with the “jobs plan” (or whatever it was) from the gal running against Scott Walker for gov, but the point is that you cannot claim an IDEA is yours when you’ve lifted it from someone else.
Just say: hey, Mr. Smith has this idea and I like it myself, so that’s my plan; or I’d like to read this piece I found on that fine website FR....
(How much would we be loving this woman had she done that?)
It’s all about pretext, not substance.
They were going to vote against her on partisan/ideological grounds. Citing a trumped up plagerism charge allows them to avoid explicitly saying so.
I’m guessing they don’t read FR. They probably saw the piece as part of the vetting process, saw the FR reference and went fishing for the post using google.
>> They were going to vote against her on partisan/ideological grounds. Citing a trumped up plagerism charge allows them to avoid explicitly saying so.
The accuser is a follower of Mother Jones.
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Although I use quotation marks, I have not credited Joseph Conrad in my tag line.
I do not think he would be offended.
Hold on a minute there! Dench attributed Bradford and FR in her blog.. The plagiarism charge is based on the supposition of a false standard. The blog is a story narrative, and Dench is clearly recounting, not writing an original work. The complainant is not ignorant of the difference. This is one of the ways in which liberals try to suppress free speech, by pretending that recounting a story is stealing from someone.
if she did credit FR, then this was all a bunch of crap by the panel
Jane Kuenz is clearly lying and doesn’t understand that telling the truth in a public forum is “core principle” for an associate professor at the University.
Post 18 I corrected my ‘guilty’ post - she did attribute her post to FR.
Good to know, thanks for posting that.
You can’t copyright an idea... just the words expressing it.
Your comment was kind to me... but now I'm a tad surprised by your tagline... :) Anyhow, thanks VanShuyten... feels better.
Darn, and I was so sure of moral righteousness too. Sorry.
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