--- Forwarded Message from "Edmund Dente" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Subject: RE: #7574.1 LangLab director with "fraudulent" PhD (!)
>Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:29:12 -0400
>Thread-Topic: #7574.1 LangLab director with "fraudulent" PhD (!)
>Thread-Index: AcRkRZMBnUMnxeF1RaS72jUrogk89gABru4A
>From: "Edmund Dente" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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> --- Forwarded Message from "Lizz Caplan-Carbin, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]> >
>
> Yes we should calm down before we react to this, but if I did, I
> wouldn't say anything at all.
> I am mad, disgusted and frustrated. Fraud and its condonance have
> whittled away at the very definition of integrity.
> As an honestly credentialed, unemployed person, it seems that earnest
> integrity might be my downfall. It angers me to know that someone
> continues to hold a postion, using lies, in place of actual
> qualifications.
>
> Its clear that a little fraud can take you all the way to University
> Language Lab Director (and a lot of fraud can bankrupt thousands).
>
> In the end, it makes everyone's "so-called" credentials suspicious, when
> you know of some who've obtained theirs fraudulently.

Forcefully and eloquently put, and I agree completely. What happens when the
next student at her school accused of plagiarism or other academic fraud cites
the school's selective enforcement of the basic ethical tenets of academia?

That said, I wonder how precisely the word "fraud" is being used in this case.
That's a strong word to toss out. The central question is whether she passed off
the translation as her own work or whether is was clear that it was someone
else's work that she was translating. That would make all the difference. The
original poster said, "Her dissertation, which she claimed was original
work...".  If that is indeed the case, how could the school ever justifiably
discipline ANY student for academic fraud if it doesn't discipline her?
Cheers,
Ed

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