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Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector
(Maly) writes "CBC is reporting that MCGill University has lost a fight to have students first turn papers over to an anti-cheating website before handing them in to professors. The student refused to hand in three assignments to the service, received a zero on those assignments, then fought the ruling. The story doesn't have many specifics, such as the venue of the fight (court or some internal university tribunal), but it is an interesting case. As a recent graduate of the social sciences, I find that practice appalling. The student is right to refuse, as he gets no compensation from the service for making money off his original work (assuming it was original!!). Although I don't like the idea, and I'm glad I never went through it, I suppose its analogue would be mandatory drug tests in sports."
Can we stop the Slashdot editorializing? I mean, look at this story. The first half is very fact-oriented and neutral. It presents the case in question, the student's views and his initial punnishment. Do we need the poster's opinion as well? That is the sort of comment that should be reserved for the COMMENTS section, not the main article...
anyone else agree that we're seeing this much more recently?