{"id":579,"date":"2005-06-15T06:35:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=579"},"modified":"2005-06-17T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T01:37:38","slug":"admittingdenyingdecrying-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/admittingdenyingdecrying-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Admitting\/denying\/decrying plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the AP and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/news\/local\/11896437.htm\">other stories are calling Bryan LeBeau&#8217;s letter on HistoryNetwork and consequent interviews an admission of guilt<\/a>, it is only half so. Yes, he admits copying, but only quotes &#8212; as in <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/comments\/62779.html\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t recall where I got Cornel&#8217;s quotes. As they were just quotes, I suspect he was quoted somewhere, and I clipped them.&#8221;<\/a> Not exactly random quotes. See for yourself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanity.org\/voices\/commencements\/speeches\/index.php?page=west_at_wesleyan\">West here.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cas.umkc.edu\/News\/news7.htm\">LeBeau here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThen there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanity.org\/voices\/commencements\/speeches\/index.php?page=baker_at_connecticut\">the introduction given by LeBeau taken from Russell Baker<\/a> as yet unacknowledged.<br \/>\nLeBeau also attempts to change his misdeed by removing the publication aspect of his theft. Although all of his Dean&#8217;s Newsletters are on the net, he claims to be uninformed that they are and have been for several years.<br \/>\nI do believe that LeBeau is sorry, but while he owns up to having done something &#8220;stupid,&#8221; he has not confessed to having done wrong. There is a difference. Searching for excuses is not the same as coming clean as anyone who has attended Confession should have learned.<br \/>\nYet there are consequences, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/news\/local\/11896437.htm\">the Kansas City Star reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The dean, Bryan LeBeau, also said he has withdrawn from consideration to be executive vice president at DePaul University, a job for which he was a finalist, in the wake of news reports about the similarities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this is not tragic. Sadly, it is pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Cornel West (or to quote LeBeau as he quotes West without acknowledgement):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We ought not to confuse the tragic with the pathetic. The tragic is about the exploration of human possibilities for freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/12458.html\"><br \/>\nRalph Luker writing on the Cliopatria History News Network<\/a> has a more detailed and, I would admit and confess but not decry, a smarter and more complete take on the LeBeau borrowings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the AP and other stories are calling Bryan LeBeau&#8217;s letter on HistoryNetwork and consequent interviews an admission of guilt, it is only half so. Yes, he admits copying, but only quotes &#8212; as in &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall where I got Cornel&#8217;s quotes. As they were just quotes, I suspect he was quoted somewhere, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-plagiarism","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}