You can say it was a long time ago… standards were different then… you were in a hurry… the university passed you, after all, so it’s their problem… it’s all political… you’re going to sue the school because you swear that you didn’t… you were just a little sloppy…
You can say all the things people caught plagiarizing say; but at the end of the day you’ve been done in by a plagiarism-detection technology you could never have foreseen, and you’re going to lose your job.
Annette Schavan, German Education Minister, has resigned.
February 9th, 2013 at 2:04PM
The NYT article is very good, what with allusions to German propensities for ‘schadenfreude’ and ‘title arousal’:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/world/europe/german-education-chief-quits-in-scandal-reflecting-fascination-with-titles.html?pagewanted=1&hp