SIU accused of copying plagiarism policy

Daily Egyptian ^ | January 29, 2009 | Wendy Weinhold

[null and void]

perfect

[festus]

Irony is the spice of life.

[imintrouble]

What’s with Illinois - bad water or something?

People living there seem to be a bit bent....

[Lokibob]

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

....Bob

[Danae]

ROTFLMAO

[Cicero]

University Faculties have, as Harold Bloom once remarked, become more and more like herds of lemmings. So it’s not surprising they have gotten into the habit of unconscious imitation.

Probably didn’t even notice they were plagiarizing their plagiarism protocol.

[xJones]

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the 10-member committee of Southern Illinois University academics and administrators commissioned to develop a plagiarism policy may have borrowed from Indiana University’s definition—without citing IU.

SIU officials seemed surprised by the news and stressed the policy was still in draft form. It would be a near perfect example of irony: a definition of plagiarism created in the wake of plagiarism scandals may itself have been plagiarized.

Both policies open with similar sentences.

“Plagiarism is defined as presenting existing work as one’s own,” the SIU definition reads.

“Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s work, including the work of other students, as one’s own,” the IU definition begins.

SIU’s 139-word definition is nearly identical to the definition IU adopted in 2005 and currently publishes on its Web site under the heading, “How to recognize plagiarism.”

I don't know if I love the irony involved here more than I do the name of the local newspaper: The Daily Egyptian, serving southern Illinois since 1916.

At least nobody can say that the newspaper plagarized their title.:)

[ApplegateRanch]

I would comment, but won’t, because I may inadvertantly say something somepone has already said in the past 10,000 years, and not properly cite them.

[PERKY2004]

I would comment, but won’t, because I may inadvertantly say something somepone has already said in the past 10,000 years, and not properly cite them. *

* as stated so succinctly by ApplegateRanch :)

[Doctor Raoul]

Such idiocy is only respected on college campuses.

[armymarinemom]

LOL. Yep the pillars of society.

[Verginius Rufus]

There’s a Latin saying I’ve run across which translates roughly as “cursed be those who said my words before me.” It can be annoying to think you’ve come up with something really unique and original, only to discover that some obscure person you’d never heard of said the same thing 100 or 200 years ago. There’s nothing new under the sun.

[WarEagle]

I don't know if I love the irony involved here more than I do the name of the local newspaper: The Daily Egyptian, serving southern Illinois since 1916.

I think that's the SIU student newspaper. The school mascot is the saluki, an Egyptian dog.

[ontap]

Now I don't care who you are that there's funny!!!

[happinesswithoutpeace]

lol

[ThomasThomas]

This has nothing to do with plagiarism. It an example of what is happen in higher education today. There is a narrow and well defined way a good person is to think. Any originality will keep you from being tenured.

[ApplegateRanch]

It can be annoying to think you’ve come up with something really unique and original, only to discover that some obscure person you’d never heard of said the same thing 100 or 200 years ago.

You got that right!

The other thing that annoys me is to have heard a saying all of my life, only to see it "officially" credited to some current second rate politician or celebrity, who used it in a speech.

[RobinOfKingston]

Members of a committee formed in response to plagiarism ... may have plagiarized.

Maybe it is just that that room full of monkeys at typewriters went beyond reproducing the Encyclopedia Britannica, and has finally typed up everything that can ever be written.

[scrabblehack]

Does the Egyptian serve Cairo as well as Carbondale?
(Yes, I have heard that the locals say KAY-ro rather than KEYE-ro).