The View From Kalamazoo

“The National Library of Scotland’s online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what ‘the word on the street’ was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions – all these and more are here.”

(This could be a bonanza for a teacher of AP high school english or history!)

Plagiarizing student suing university for negligence:
Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student at Kent University in Britain who admits plagiarizing material from the Web, said the school should have warned him that using already published text was against the rules, according to the BBC.

“I did plagiarize. I never dreamt it was a problem,” Gunn told the news service.

Riiight. It’s a serious, disturbingly widespread problem here at WMU, as well – and the school does everything short of taking dere widdle hands and walking dem through the library and internet to try and give them the clue they so desperately need. Bah. Treat us like adults, except when we don’t want you to. At least I get to say ‘When I was an undergraduate I was stupid, but not that stupid!’