Thursday, March 31, 2005

The Laura K. Pahl Saga

It's the story of how a college student turned to plagiarism, and how the Internet crushed her.

Start here, and if you can't find your way from there...

go here...

then here...

and then here for the surprise ending.

Via Waxy Links.

Oops, did I say Laura K. Pahl? I meant Laura K. Krishna.

2 comments:

JNB said...

I read it all. It didn't surprise me. A dumb girl who didn't write a paper in time. I liked this comment found on the last link.

"Nate,
you are no hero in this. Regardless of this young girls actions, you willfully took advantage of her stupidity and created this drama. Someone braver and less attention hungry than you would have asked WHY she needed to do this and helped her realize that she had other options: Deadline extensions, pointers to resources and topics and so on. 5 pages is not a big deal - you could have spent less time on helping her shape an outline and proof reading her paper than you did on posting these selfish "I CAUGHT HER" posts. But it is all about generating traffic to your site, isn't it?

Plagiarizing is clearly wrong, but your blood thirsty sensationalism is a blogger's disgrace."

JNB said...

Oh, and what's with the title? I'm not sure the word kindness belongs in it.