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...coveted jobs remains unclear. But with EMPLOYERS, SALARIES and CHANCES FOR PROMOTION, the relentless pursuit of SUCCESS would seem likely to continue. It is in this renewed but more mam-month crusade that the notorious Princeton non-graduate insists she should be free of the label "plagiarist." Crafts and Hauther presumably composed this book on their own, but their achievement seems even more reprehensible than that of Napolitano...
...Beat the System: The Student's Guide to Good Grades by Columbia grads Kathy Crafts (summa cum laude!) and Brenda Hauther attempts to legitimized and even glorifies this unsavory approach to college. The authors actually devote a sizable chunk of the book to the art of cheating itself. "Cheating should be resorted to only in the final depths of despair," they conclude. "If you have sunk that low and there is really no other way out," twisting the rules becomes excusable. Thus they provide a few of the better suggestions and hints to guide your cheating. "Coughing codes and answer...
MORE DISTURBING than the reckless pursuit of "success" recommended is the book's paranoia and condescending tones. Consistently exploiting guts puts you a on a rather common level of academic non-achievement. Authors Crafts and Hauther ("one a lawyer one an M.B.A.") would lower the lowest common denominator: The easy way out becomes an honorable way of life. To the all-important outside world--monolithically labelled "THEM" throughout--"a 3.5 is a 3.5; no one has to know that you got it with History of Photography or Italian Renaissance Painting. "Trust no one, they add, and cut as many corners...
...doctrine expoused by Crafts and Hauther and carried out too faithfully by the forlom Princetonian, Napolitano, goes far beyond the cliched dangers of pre-professionalism. These folks achieve in college merely to clench a career. They also view the entier four-year experience with scorn--as a game played against a system which threatens to slap them with a bum grade and send their lives, families, future children and bank accounts down the tubes. These darlings of the New and More Vicious Darwinism rationalize their suggestions in a conclusion entitled "Now You Are Ready to fight"..."No grad school...
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