The View From Kalamazoo

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!’