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Friday, October 19, 2007

Laughingstock Revisited


From the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville faculty senate's discussion of SIU president Glenn Poshard, whose extensive plagiarism was judged by a committee made up of his own faculty to have been "inadvertent":


'[One professor remarked] that [President] Poshard "inadvertently remains" in office — a comment that drew chuckles from the group.'



The group went on to vote overwhelmingly in favor of his resignation.