This has become so common that people are becoming desensitized to it. Plagiarism used to be a very serious charge in higher education. The Daily Wire reports: University of Maryland President Copied Rocket Science Paper From Aussie Student University of Maryland President Darryll Pines appears to have committed significant plagiarism, lifting large portions of two academic journal articles from a tutorial website made years prior by an Australian student, a Daily Wire investigation found. A 1,500-word stretch of a 5,000-word paper by Pines and a co-author published in 2002 — accounting for nearly a third of the paper — is...