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	<description>&#34;nothing natural about it!&#34;</description>
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		<title>Property is Theft: Here&#8217;s Your Grade!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've long been fascinated with plagiarism, not so much as a problem of students, but as a preoccupation of certain professors.&#160; A fear of plagiarism-- and an anxiety about grade&#160; inflation--seems to be symptomatic of our era, to use the old term from theory. Yet, as Rob Jenkins suggests, there's really not much to worry about when it comes to plagiarism ("<a title="http://chronicle.com/article/Toward-a-Rational-Response-to/128611/" href="http://chronicle.com/article/Toward-a-Rational-Response-to/128611/" target="_blank">Toward a Rational Response to Plagiarism</a>.")

Urban myth at the University of Texas at Austin held that the fraternities had extensive collections of tests and papers, dating back decades, that the fraternity brothers could use for all sorts of mischief.&#160; I am not sure how much of that story is reality and how much is braggadocio, but...]]></description>
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		<title>Orwell 2.0</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ray Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I broke my arm as a kid, I started noticing people in casts everywhere. I've been mulling over a paper presentation about consumerism in my field, and I am having a similar experience. Suddenly, everywhere I look there's an article suggesting something about new communication technologies, good or bad. 

Most recently it's a Slate piece called, "<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2252545/pagenum/2">War is Gaga.</a>" It's written, in typical bourgeois journalistic style, from the point of view of "our troops."  The point, in other words, is that these "ridiculous dance routines on the Internet" (as the subtitle notes) are a way for soldiers to blow off steam. No doubt. 

There's a brief nod to the creepier side of some of these videos...]]></description>
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