I called it! Calk plagiarized from Wikipedia, and I called it!

[ProudLib72]

That means I'm qualified to do Rachel's job...right? Right?

Of course, as a college English comp prof, I'm used to seeing this type of thing. I'm also used to failing the Calks of the world

[lunasun]

1. ++Keep up the good work at your job!

Wiki

[ProudLib72]

2. Yep, in first semester comp I tell them not to use Wikipedia as a source

It's good for background info, but you do not get to use it as a source.

[malaise]

3. I had a student who plagiarized even the subtitles

I failed his ass and sent him to the cheating committee.
It was the breath-taking arrogance that pissed me off - he said he was too busy to write the essay.

[ProudLib72]

4. I had a student who cut and pasted from three sources

Then he acted like he wasn't aware of the problem. It turned out he had had his girlfriend write the paper for him.

He got booted from the class, and the incident went on his college record.

Edit: Forgot to add the "why". He was "too busy" because he was a track and field athlete. He threw shot put.

[malaise]

7. Some of them think they can get away with it

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And yes the multiple source plagiarism is neither smart nor clever. And yes it stays on your record.

[mythology]

5. One of my professors in college had a student plagiarize from the professor's own book

She even started each class with a lecture on plagiarism and a quiz on the subject. And yet every semester at least one idiot failed because of it. Couple that with being the hardest grader in the department, and she wasn't the most popular professor. On the other hand if you took the class seriously and worked hard, she was a great professor.

[malaise]

6. That happens more and more these days

You really have to be stupid to plagiarize from your professor's book.
I know students who would buy the degree like take out food if they could. They are not interested in knowledge. They just want the salary and perks associated with a degree. Look at that foolish ReTHUG in Florida and her fake degree.

[brush]

8. Has it come to this? A CEO of a bank is dumb enough to plagiarize...

from Wikipedia.

Gawd! Who's running these companies, not to mention the WH?

The country is going down the tubes as liars and cheaters are in charge in too many places and we have liars and cheaters trying to get them into top posts in the government.

[ProudLib72]

9. Hey, he was going to be Secretary of the Army!

He had a list of jobs he would do, even some ambassadorships. The sheer audacity of it is unreal! I am waiting for him to start his new job as low man on the totem pole at the sanitation department.

[brush]

15. Heehee! Him hanging off the back of a garbage truck would be nice.

Do you know if the board of his bank has moved against him yet?

[ProudLib72]

16. Don't know.

Fully expecting it by the end of the week. That has to be the absolute worst publicity a small bank could imagine.

[jmowreader]

17. Low man on the totem pole at a garbage company no longer rides the truck

Current model garbage trucks have an arm to pick up the cans.

The low man on the totem pole stands there with a rake leveling out the garbage at the dump....a job even more suited to this prick.

[brush]

19. Good. That'll suit him. Hope there's a lot of runny garbage that splashes.

[Achilleaze]

20. This shit is the result of "republican family values"

They've got Dirty Donny* as their top-of-the-shitheap republican role model, and so generations of shitty little republican rug rats will grow up to be shitty, greedy, lying, treasonous adult republicans. Sick.

* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

[Blue_Tires]

10. Who is Calk?

[ProudLib72]

11. Here ya go

A federal prosecutor told a judge on Friday that bank CEO Steve Calk participated — alongside former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort — in a conspiracy to defraud his own small Chicago-based bank.

“Mr. Calk is a co-conspirator,” prosecutor Greg Andres said to the judge during Manafort’s trial on charges that include defrauding The Federal Savings Bank.

“Mr. Manafort was submitting both false documents and other material to the bank,” Andres added. “Mr. Calk approved those loans. And it’s the government’s theory that he did that because he was trying to obtain a position within the Trump administration.”

Prosecutors have previously argued that Calk’s bank approved $16 million in mortgage loans to Manafort because of Calk’s own political ambition. But the comments during Friday’s court proceedings were the government’s most forceful public statements to date about Calk’s role in the alleged fraud.

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ceo-calk-conspired-with-manafort-to-defraud-his-own-bank-prosecutors

[brush]

13. CEO of the bank who lent, over staff objections, Manafort millions...

in exchange, he thought, for a top government post.

[oasis]

12. Good job.

[ProudLib72]

14. I have edited my resume on Linkedin

Proudlib is more qualified for any position anywhere in the country than any of the current administration.

Did you see Rachel caught the plagiarism because it was the only time he spelled "role" correctly? He kept using "roll". Who knows, maybe he would have made a decent WH chef?

[Mc Mike]

18. Good call. rec, nt