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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=609041118-17122008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Have you ever watched a TV show called "Bad Girls Club" (or something
like that). The girls self-promote themselves to higher and higher status
for the number of acts accomplished that defy established social codes (like
cheating, physically abusing, lying, stealing, etc.) While the show is
designed to look sexy and appeal to a girl's inner beast, it does claim to have
some moral caveat "Will living together help them move forward and turn their
lives around -- or will chaos rule?" </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=609041118-17122008><FONT face=Arial size=2>But this type of arrogant and
feisty behavioral signage is not new, social moms and dads have left an
indelible mark on their children's brains to behave badly.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=609041118-17122008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I haven't taught
school in a number of years, but were the student mine, I would follow LaTorra
suggest and move on it quickly.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>giovanni
santost<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:49 PM<BR><B>To:</B> ExI
chat list<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ExI] I don't understand students: help
!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>What is happening with students ??</DIV>
<DIV>I passed this girl with a C in an Astronomy for non-science majors
class.</DIV>
<DIV>She calls me on my cell, demanding a B, saying she will go to the
Dean if not satisfied.</DIV>
<DIV>She struggled all the semester and she is barely literate. She had
problems in understanding 1.6 *10 =16. Seriously.</DIV>
<DIV>I was trying to be nice and I passed her with a decent
grade. </DIV>
<DIV>When I went back and I looked more carefully at her assignment I
discovered that on 119 lines of her final paper worth 15 % of her grade
115 lines were copied from the internet word by word.</DIV>
<DIV>The other 4 didn't make sense and they were full of grammatical
errors.</DIV>
<DIV>She did quote 105 lines but the remaining 14, that she claimed to be
her own (how somebody can think to write a paper with about 10 % being
their "own work "is another wonder of the Universe) are also word by
word copied but not quoted.</DIV>
<DIV>She is fighting with me claiming I never mentioned they could not
paste and copy to do their semester project and that she didn't do
anything wrong. She want to go and debate this with my superiors.</DIV>
<DIV>What is going on in the minds of these students?</DIV>
<DIV>She is not the only one with this sense of the entitlement and
reckless arrogance.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 12/16/08, Damien Broderick
<I><thespike@satx.rr.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From:
Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com><BR>Subject: Re: [ExI]
FakeAlert and Virtumonde<BR>To: "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, December 16,
2008, 10:05 PM<BR><BR><PRE>At 11:40 PM 12/16/2008 +0000, BillK wrote:
> <http://www.malwarebytes.org/>
I downloaded this one, ran it, and damn if it didn't find the filthy pests
and crush them like the bugs they are. Interestingly, once it said my PC was
clean, I found that Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool opened up, and
reported also that I was clean as a whistle. Not sure I believe any of them
entirely, but for now I seem good to go. Thank you for this excellent advice,
sir!
Damien Broderick
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