York University has brought in tough new controls in the wake of a Toronto Star investigation that showed a former student fabricated dozens of its degrees, and another got into Osgoode Hall Law School with a degree purchased from a diploma mill.
The new online degree verification is an invaluable tool for employers, immigration officials and other schools wanting to check whether someone holds a genuine York degree
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this. this is what’s wrong.
lol.
What a difference a year makes. This time last year the DVD stalls were selling Bollywood movies, warlord showreels and the odd action flick. Today porn is openly being sold in Kabul with a vengence - being browsed and bought by males on the open street. Whilst the packaging doesn’t (yet) reveal any nipples/genitalia the content is similar to what you’d find in London or Helsinki. (via Afghanistan Porn Consumption Norms, Strategic Implications - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect)
Butthole Surfers - “Who Was In My Room Last Night”
500 Days of Summer = Saccharin pandering to effete, sentimental, lovelorn twenty-somethings with low self-esteem.
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The manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in the digital age is destructive to the advancement of human knowledge and culture, and higher education is doing nothing about it.
That is what Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard University law professor and renowned open-access advocate, told a theater of higher ed technologists Thursday at the 2009 Educause Conference here. In his talk, Lessig described how digital and Web technology has exploded the conditions under which copyright law had been written.
“If copyright law, at its core, regulates something called ‘copies,’ then in the analog world… many uses of culture were copyright-free,” he explained. “They didn’t trigger copyright law, because no copy was made. But in the digital world, very few uses are copyright-free because in the digital world … all uses produce a copy.”
The paradigm for copyright law enforcement emerged out of this “analog world” as a way of ensuring authors were remunerated for their contributions to culture, thereby creating an incentive to make further contributions and drive the progress on human art and discovery forward, he said.
Times have since changed, said Lessig, but the letter of the law hasn’t.
Seen at Inside Higher Ed
Yes. This applies to copyright generally, but it applies in spades to academic publishing. Arguably, academic publications have a particular need to be spread and read as widely as possible. Yet the copyright restrictions placed on their online distribution are extraordinarily draconian. We have a general responsibility to test copyright to destruction, and nowhere more than in academic publishing. See also.
