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Monday, September 10, 2007
Poshard Serial Plagiarist UD has often pointed out on this blog that a person who plagiarizes one thing has typically plagiarized others. The president of Southern Illinois University is no exception. From today's Chronicle of Higher Education: Recently ... The Chronicle obtained -- from a source outside the university -- a copy of Mr. Poshard's 1975 master's thesis for Southern Illinois on drug abuse among students at rural high schools. It contains some of the same types of problems as his dissertation: sentences that appear nearly verbatim in sources published earlier but are not in quotation marks or cited. |