Posts by Sacha
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What isn't teaching is research - or publication, really.
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Anecdata, my favourite.
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a telephone number-like legal bill is some indicator of quality
Quality of income, yes.
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one of New Zealand's master storytellers at the height of his powers
Craig prompted this response yesterday from Margaret Soltan:
The pathetic plagiarist has no faith in his ability to write well. At his core is a deep self-doubt; and the more success the pathetic plagiarist enjoys, the deeper his self-doubt becomes, and the more he plagiarizes. In other words, he has always felt himself to be a hoax, a fraud, and turns to plagiarism because he sincerely believes himself incapable of valuable independent work.
Sad, alright.
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I was much happier when the Ak event was scheduled for after the big presentation I have to deliver on Thursday morning.
I don't think you'll be able to hear me from down there.
A live feed could diversify your income streams..
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Word o year?
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It is also being said that different standards would have applied to a student in the same position. These claims are patently untrue.
Judging by those passages we were quoted earlier from the student handbook saying that "inadvertent" was no defense, the Chancellor of Vice is talking through another orifice. Nice intellectual property allusion, but.
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Jolisa actually explained that dimension quite nicely in this morning's radio interview.
Which still languishes unlinked? Here, then: streaming 5m18, MP3 1.9MB.
Oh, and look, the subsequent discussion featuring Prof Sorrenson, Sophia Blair of NZUSA and Simon Bowden from the Arts Foundation - streaming 21m27, MP3 7.4MB.
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Go Jolisa. Great RNZ interview just now. One of us can link directly when it is posted here in an hour or so.
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CK Stead was scathing on RNZ yesterday (streaming 4m40, MP3 1.6MB) about the academic implications, as quoted in that linked Herald story:
"It makes you wonder what the title
of a distinguished professor means in the University of Auckland, if they then say what Witi Ihimaera has done doesn't matter."It's really like saying 'Well, yes, I did steal from 16 people but I only took a dollar from each'," he said in the radio interview.
Professor Stead said the situation would reflect badly on the university until the seriousness of what had happened was acknowledged.
Avoiding words like "inadvertent" and "error" might be a start.
Professor Sorrenson said he was annoyed that Professor Ihimaera had been named as one of five Arts Foundation laureates and had received a $50,000 donation.
"It was awarded for a body of literature which included The Matriarch. It's not just this latest book. He doesn't seem to have learnt anything because he's done it again."