{"id":3665,"date":"2018-03-23T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:00:15","slug":"cheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3665","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Student Deterred by RC Wallpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Joseph Krzyston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A student determined to plagiarize a paper was deterred definitively through clever tactical deployment of a computer background. The potential offended, a sophomore, was way behind schedule, and figured he\u2019d buy himself a couple more hours by lifting paragraphs of text from another source. The administration, however, had other ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt was wild,\u201d said the student. \u201cOne minute, I was hell-bent of consciously copying a ton of text from another source and failing to give so much as an ounce of credit. Then I saw the little slogan on the background, and something in my head just clicked. My whole understanding of morality was shifted and re-framed, and I understood my actions very consciously to be wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is exactly what we\u2019d hoped would happen,\u201d said a representative of the administration. \u201cBy establishing fun reminders about academic integrity as an omnipresent feature of graphic design campus-wide, we\u2019re able to meet students right before they do something wrong.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked whether or not the constant reminders feel a bit oppressive, and perhaps contribute to the widely held feeling that the administration is in some way out to get them for mistakes, the representative ardently disagreed with the charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNo way. This is definitely not making anything worse. Nor are academic integrity violations generally a result of an under-motivated student body, half of which should probably have gone to a technical school and learned a real trade. It\u2019s definitely a lack of banners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Joseph Krzyston A student determined to plagiarize a paper was deterred definitively through clever tactical deployment of a computer background. The potential offended, a sophomore, was way behind schedule, and figured he\u2019d buy himself a couple more hours by lifting paragraphs of text from another source. The administration, however, had other ideas. \u201cIt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}