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:: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 ::
A"Pahl"ing
A student at an Illinois university with which I have familiar associations decided to go looking to pay someone to write a term paper for her. Thing is, the person she contacted over instant messanger happened to have a recent bachelor's in english - who also was a member of a sketch comedy troupe that runs their own blog. This person, Nate, decided to write a paper, but he didn't stop there. He wrote the paper, crappily, sent it to her, and posted it on the troupe's then-obscure blog hoping that the professor or TA would google the outrageously bad text and find the post. He also claimed that he contacted the student's university - though he didn't, since he didn't want to do all the prof's work himself.
Thing is, Nate underestimated how many people in the blogosphere have degrees and thus despise plagiarists with a passion. Said girl's university was contacted anyway (and they were not amused with their student) and the blog's URL has been passed around like wildfire.
I'm not going to put the rest of the story here, since you can just go to the first post in the short series and read from there. I will note, though, that at the student's request Nate changed all instances of her last name on the blog and created a pseudonym for her university. I'll be nice and not directly reveal them, though one should be obvious already.
:: The Squire 2:10 PM :: email this post :: ::
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