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Web-cheat student to sue university


A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner.

Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, freely admits using material downloaded from the Internet to complete his assignments. He told the Times: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem."

His problem, then, is not that he was caught, but that he was caught too late. He argues that the university should have warned him of the consequences earlier.

"I can see there is evidence I have gone against the rules," he concedes. "But they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished. If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough."

University authorities wouldn\'t comment directly on the case stressed that the university is very clear on the subject. David Nightingale, the deputy vice-chancellor said: "All students are given clear guidelines as well as practical advice and support as to what constitutes plagiarism. These spell it out that it is not acceptable under any circumstances."

idiot!

I love this new age of where everything is someone else\'s fault and no one can take responsibility for their own actions.

One bitch tho, how come that shit doesnt work for me?

yea, it seems this whole generation cannot take responsibility for there own actions, and its always someone else thought.

As if the univresity should hire detectives to check student\'s work.Stupid idiot.He knew what he was doing was wrong and there is no excuse.
if he can use that excuse then every illegal action can be excused the same way *you should have stopped me before I did it so its your fault*
PAH

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Generation Wasted Load at its finest hour.

Originally posted by videoholic


His problem, then, is not that he was caught, but that he was caught too late. He argues that the university should have warned him of the consequences earlier.
 

God...this guy is full of Sh$t...

Your given a Handbook on the consequences of plagiarism the DAY you enrole ....


IMO Michael Gunn sould be dragged through the streets of london naked only to be beat\'n to death by groups of angry Lectures armed with lengths of rubber hoes pipes …

Now THAT would be REAL justice.

hey sorry i was being stupid and didnt stop

but its your fault for not telling me to stop being stupid

thats basically what hes saying right

yup.

Need to try that next time i am pulled over by the police for speeding.

To be fair, if he can show that the University knew he was cheating in year one or two of his career, I would think he has a good chance of getting at least his tuition/expenses back for later years.  I should say the statute of limitations on catching someone for cheating should be short term.

If he hadn\'t been caught earlier, but they found out and expelled him in third year, then he deserves what he gets.

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He would not only have to prove the University knew he was cheating, but he would have to prove that they didn\'t do anything about it because they wanted his tuition.

If he could prove they knew he was cheating year 1-2, then the only reason for them to wait till the end of third year IS to get his tuition.

I have the feeling though that his arguement is that they *should* have noticed it earlier, but didn\'t... which just won\'t hold water.

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Originally posted by FatalXception
If he could prove they knew he was cheating year 1-2, then the only reason for them to wait till the end of third year IS to get his tuition.

Still has to be proven without a shadow of a doubt.