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here is the story:
A man came to speak at our college for Black history month. The speech made alot of people angry, because it seemed to many to be a personal attack on them.
While that is pretty bad, if that was the only problem that would have been fine people would have gotten over it and moved on. My friend and I backtracked some of the information in the speech and found out it was faulty, but if that wasn't bad enough, we found out the speech was copied and plagerized word for word from the letter!
As a response my friends and I wrote anonymous letters to the dean, and it started a slew of controversy. A blog was created for any other such events and issues to discuss however aside from one post, it never was very active although it should be pretty clear the kind of thought and discussion that was behind each of the articles.
Essentially the college rather than apologizing tried to keep the information contained and cover it up, even downplaying it in the Colleg's Newspaper to the extent of blatently lying to the student body.
http://questionthecollege.blogspot.com/
While the college does have strict rules about plagierism ti seems that sometimes truth must be sacrificed for ideology and discarded because keeping a facade of Christian unity and tolerance is more important than honesty and integrity.
My friends and I made a blog and apparently even attracted the attention of the dean. Right now the ethics of Anonymity hangs defiantly on the board of the SADC.
We were at first thinking of just walking right into the deans office to discuss this, in an open setting, the kind of response we got to us more than justified our decision to be anonymous.
Thoughts?
A man came to speak at our college for Black history month. The speech made alot of people angry, because it seemed to many to be a personal attack on them.
While that is pretty bad, if that was the only problem that would have been fine people would have gotten over it and moved on. My friend and I backtracked some of the information in the speech and found out it was faulty, but if that wasn't bad enough, we found out the speech was copied and plagerized word for word from the letter!
As a response my friends and I wrote anonymous letters to the dean, and it started a slew of controversy. A blog was created for any other such events and issues to discuss however aside from one post, it never was very active although it should be pretty clear the kind of thought and discussion that was behind each of the articles.
Essentially the college rather than apologizing tried to keep the information contained and cover it up, even downplaying it in the Colleg's Newspaper to the extent of blatently lying to the student body.
http://questionthecollege.blogspot.com/
While the college does have strict rules about plagierism ti seems that sometimes truth must be sacrificed for ideology and discarded because keeping a facade of Christian unity and tolerance is more important than honesty and integrity.
My friends and I made a blog and apparently even attracted the attention of the dean. Right now the ethics of Anonymity hangs defiantly on the board of the SADC.
We were at first thinking of just walking right into the deans office to discuss this, in an open setting, the kind of response we got to us more than justified our decision to be anonymous.
Thoughts?
