[892] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Marilee Jones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Vichot)
Thu Oct 4 15:07:08 2001
Message-ID: <200110032145.RAA20568@m1-142-3.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:45:08 -0400
Reply-To: "Documentation at http://web.mit.edu/beland/talk/talk.html"
<MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU>, Ray Vichot <rayv@MIT.EDU>
From: Ray Vichot <rayv@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:40:54 EDT."
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>It's interesting to point out that her article sounded a lot (a WHOLE lot, I
>thought at first it was the same one) like an article I read in some big
>magazine a couple months back... Shit, I wish I could remember what magazine
>that was... Not the economist... I read the article while waiting at MIT
>medical. It was a lot longer, but basically said all the same things about the
>generations.
>I get the feeling that she read that article too, and decided "Oh, look, this
>proves that we should take care of them!" without the thought ever crossing
>her mind once that MIT students may be different from the norm.
>What would be really freaking funny is if we could get her on plagiarism. :)
>I'll try and find the original article...
>If you can think of the names of any magazines you've seen in the med center
>waiting rooms (I think it was the gynecology waiting room), especially ones
>prone to very long-winded articles, let me know.
I seem to recall NPR having a few speakers about this "trend" about a year ago or so... on the "All Things Considered" program
Not the article, but the article probably cribbed from those speakers and their books.
