University of Maryland President Accused of Plagiarism
“accounting for nearly a third of the paper”
This has become so common that people are becoming desensitized to it. Plagiarism used to be a very serious charge in higher education.
The Daily Wire reports:
University of Maryland President Copied Rocket Science Paper From Aussie Student
University of Maryland President Darryll Pines appears to have committed significant plagiarism, lifting large portions of two academic journal articles from a tutorial website made years prior by an Australian student, a Daily Wire investigation found.
A 1,500-word stretch of a 5,000-word paper by Pines and a co-author published in 2002 — accounting for nearly a third of the paper — is virtually identical to a tutorial website called “Surfing the Wavelets” published in 1996 by Joshua Altmann, who at the time of publishing was a university student in Australia.
Pines does not cite or mention Altmann or the website, which says it was last updated in October 1996. Pines and his co-author, Liming Salvino, then recycled much of that paper, including almost all the uncredited Altmann language, for another peer-reviewed paper in 2006.
Pines, a rocket scientist and diversity activist, does not appear to have made any changes to Altmann’s work except removing some sentences and Americanizing the Australian’s British spelling (turning “analyse” to “analyze,” e.g.) — but Pines missed two such words, “endeavour” and “modelling,” which remain in his work with the spelling commonly used abroad.
Pines’s systematic editing of British words suggests he did copy the language, but deliberately manipulated Altmann’s text to look like his own. The finding of significant past plagiarism comes after Pines this month presented what he said was “faculty research” defending a pro-Palestine rally planned for October 7, but which actually came from ChatGPT.
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man you’d think some groups just dont have the merit
thats what happens when you are an
A+ student in checking the boxes
I predict zip, zero, zilch consequence to Pines for his actions. Quite probable, a promotion. After all, he is a Rocket Scientist!
The best from Wakanda.
Am I a racist for looking at “images” in a search engine lookup?
I didn’t even bother at first
then I made a bet with myself
I won!
Sorta like what I did. The spelling of his given name was a big fat hint.
And yet the surname implies Jewish, from approximately the area that’s now Belarus. I wonder how he came by it.
He changed it. It used to be Rabinowirz. /ducking
Google image search shows he’s black.
So he can’t be accused of anything more than sloppy footnotes, because that would be “racist” ??
If scholarship and a demonstrated administrative record are not the first priority in a search for a university president, then watch out.
The problem with hiring based on DEI principles is that eventually the merits (or lack thereof) of the person will be known to all to the detriment of the institution and those hiring.
University of Maryland is a lost cause.
Consider this instead:
1) Move to Florida. Get an apartment. That gets you legal resident status. Within one year, you can get in-state tuition at any school in the Florida university system.
2. Meanwhile, you now have a year to do whatever.
Get a job that’s worth doing, now and maybe in future , depending how Life goes for you — bartender,
commercial driver,
teach ESL,
construction,
use your imagination.
2. If you have the cojones, go do au pair overseas for a year. Maybe pass the DELE A1 or A2 by the time you return to the states.
Most Maryland teens have no future in Maryland.
Accept reality.
Move on.
It’s not just the institution and those doing the hiring who suffer. All the DEI hires will suffer even more.
“It’s not just the institution and those doing the hiring who suffer. All the DEI hires will suffer even more.”
This reminds me of the longtime “conservative” claim that the true victims of affirmative action (which is the same as die) are blacks, etc. The true victims are White, heterosexual men! aa/die hires NEVER suffer.
“Pines is the university’s first Black president, appointed in 2020.”
Desperation causes a multitude of errors.
“Pines is the university’s first Black president, appointed in 2020.”
“Desperation causes a multitude of errors.”
What “desperation,” what “errors”?
Well baltimore is 2/3 black. So there’s that.
What percentage of Maryland as a whole is black? If we’re going to bandy race-based statistics let’s not confine ourselves to the cities.
I get a feeling that it isn’t just a “must be black” requirement but “must be both black and the furthest left possible” eliminating most black professors from consideration.
“The finding of significant past plagiarism comes after Pines this month presented what he said was ‘faculty research’ defending a pro-Palestine [sic] rally planned for October 7, but which actually came from ChatGPT.”
Ha, ha, ha, ha! So, did someone snooker him?