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Amid startling data on the prevalence of cheating--in an undergraduate survey conducted this academic year at a dozen colleges by Rutgers professor Donald McCabe, 67% of the 13,248 respondents admitted to having cheated at least once on a paper or test--some students are getting administrators to rethink their use of gotcha tools. Nova Scotia's Mount St. Vincent University went as far as banning Turnitin after the student-union president complained that it created "a culture of mistrust, a culture of guilt...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...Donald Carswell ’50 passed away in March 2005 after a distinguished career at NBC. This op-ed first ran on June...
...Donald Rumsfeld is gone. His war deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, also left the Pentagon and is fighting for his professional life as president of the World Bank. The Pentagon's former No. 3 civilian, policy chief Doug Feith, is at Georgetown University. He and a fellow faculty member, ex-CIA boss George Tenet, are busy lobbing charges over who is responsible for Iraq's deterioration. At the White House, two top aides responsible for Iraq policy are leaving their posts...
...fairy tales single-handed; it captured, and monetized, a long-simmering cultural trend. TV's Fractured Fairy Tales parodied Grimm classics, as have movies like The Princess Bride and Ever After and the books on which Shrek and Wicked were based. And highbrow postmodern and feminist writers, such as Donald Barthelme and Angela Carter, Robert Coover and Margaret Atwood, used the raw material of fairy stories to subvert traditions of storytelling that were as ingrained in us as breathing or to critique social messages that their readers had been fed along with their strained peas...