rec.arts.theatre.musicals

mw wrote:
> "Stephen Farrow" < @ > wrote in message news:f9iq67$bsf$1@ ...
>> mw wrote:
>>> "Jeanne Douglas" wrote in message news: @ ...
>>>> In article < $ @trndny04>, "mw"
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That was my post. When someone on this board stupidly contradicted this, I
>>>>> posted again, stating that O'Reilly's relentless pursuit of Churchill on his
>>>>> TV and Radio show were what brought the spotlight onto the Professor forcing
>>>>> the Universtiy to deal with that which they would have much preferred to
>>>>> sweep under the rug.
>>>> Here you prove that you have absolutely no clue how academia works.
>>>> Research is published in peer-reviewed academic journals and other
>>>> academics in the same field read your paper and evaluate it. So, if
>>>> you've got plagiarized stuff in there, it WILL be found out. And, since
>>>> that's the worst sin an academic can commit, you will get fired.
>>> However, plagiarism was not the beginning of Mr Churchill's troubles, as he himself admitted when he resigned as Chair of Ethnic Studies.
>>> From his letter of resignation:
>>>
>>> "January 31, 2005
>>>
>>> Given the furor which has arisen over the past week concerning my 2001 essay, "Some People Push Back," I feel it inappropriate that I continue in my position as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies.
>>>
>>> I am therefore submitting my resignation, effective at the end of the working day today."
>> Of course, that's a face-saving exercise. He was hardly going to admit
>> to the charges of academic misconduct in his resignation letter. He'd
>> got tenure; admitting or perhaps even referring to the academic
>> misconduct issue in a resignation letter would likely prejudice any
>> employment tribunal.
>>
>> --
>
> What he was doing was hoping this little maneuver would shut up his critics (O'Reilly was probably starting to be the least of his concerns) and save his professorship.
> Didn't work.

What, pray, do you think "face-saving exercise" means? By the time he
wrote that letter, the investigation into his academic misconduct was
already in progress. *Of course* he didn't mention it. *Of course* he
said that his resignation was due to something unconnected to his
institution.


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Stephen

I didn't just come up the Manchester Ship Canal on a Ryvita, you know.