Re: Attention Experienced Professionals

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:01:29 -0700
Message-ID: <1097719375.498265_at_yasure>


filesiteguy wrote:

> Alan scratched out in the sand
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>>I was an adjunct at a noted Eastern U.S. University (consitently ranks
>>high un U.S. News & World Report). I taught three terms before becoming
>>completely disillusioned with the job due to the amount of cheating among
>>students. Mind you I was teaching seniors, junors, and grad students. I
>>could not believe that they got this far and the suddenly started
>>cheating. 

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> Why improvise when you can plagiarize? That's the way it is outside of
> school.

Pagiarize plagiarize ... let no one else's work evade your eyes. ~ Lobachevsky by Tom Lehrer

Full lyrics below:

Who made me the genius I am today,
The mathematician that others all quote, Who's the professor that made me that way? The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.

One man deserves the credit,
One man deserves the blame,
and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please research.

And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same, And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...

I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It was on analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold. Bozhe moi!
This I know from nothing.
But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha!

I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.

And when his work is done -
Haha! - begins the fun.
 From Dnepropetrovsk

To Petropavlovsk,
By way of Iliysk,
And Novorossiysk,

To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!

And then I write
By morning, night,
And afternoon,
And pretty soon
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
When he finds out I published first!

And who made me a big success
And brought me wealth and fame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...

I am never forget the day my first book is published. Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory. This book, this book was sensational!
Pravda - ah, Pravda - Pravda said: (Russian double-talk) It stinks.
But Izvestia! Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk) It stinks.
Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubles, Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle', With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse.

And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Thu Oct 14 2004 - 04:01:29 CEST

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