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Much better article about this showing side by side comparison of plagierism: https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-copied-rocket-sci

• xqcgrek2 2y ago
  That's damning and indefensible. > Katie Lawson, a spokeswoman for the University of Maryland, did not deny that the language was copied, but suggested there would be no repercussions for the president. Also damning.
  • atonse 2y ago
    Whoa that is insane if he faces no repercussions. And I am an alumnus of UMD. If they really find him guilty and still do nothing, that’s going to be a stain on their reputation.
  • xhkkffbf 2y ago
    It is one of the worst examples I've seen. Just one solid block of lifted text -- with the spelling fixed to look American. Does anyone know whether it could have been the co-author who did this alone?
  • fsckboy 2y ago
    >That's damning and indefensible. without trying to raise a defense, a number of the minor changes to the copied text were distinct improvements. For example, "analysis was predominantly performed by looking at the details of the time domain waveform of the signal" is significantly tighter language! "time waveform" in the original is somewhat questionable, but time domain, ok, now I get it! If you are going to have somebody plagiarize you, somebody from MIT is best! Then at least you can plagiarize them back.
  • Loughla 2y ago
    They had better change their student conduct policies to not punish plagiarism. The one thing college students love to do, consistently, is take a principled stand. This seems like a no brainer loss for Maryland.