It’s always a little bit amusing to me when I hear about law students suing their law schools. It’s the perfect paradox: they teach us to find legal causes of action, but we find a cause of action in that teaching itself.
The latest lawsuit has been filed against my very own alma mater: Boston University. The claim: discrimination and breach of contract for not allowing the plaintiff to graduate after finding that she had committed plagiarism in four papers.
Now, call me crazy, but I don’t think people that cheat in law school should be able to get the degree. Law school isn’t easy, but it would be if cheaters were allowed to graduate, and that would effectively invalidate the honest majority’s hard work (we’d be fools to earn a degree that could be obtained by cutting and pasting the paragraphs of others).
There’s a little more to this story, so I’ll let you decide for yourself (or wait for the courts to decide). Articles here, here, and here.
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Comcast Channel Lineup for Cambridge
I’m amazed at how long it took me to find a channel guide for Comcast in Cambridge. The Comcast site kept telling me there was no local information. Finally Boston.com looked like it might have the lineup – but generated a script error. I finally found this lineup (appears to be accurate) from Zap2it, the company that provides the listings for Boston.com and probably countless others:
2 | WGBH | 32 | HGTV | 59 | AMC |
3 | CN8 | 33 | TNT | 60 | TOON |
4 | WBZ | 34 | ETV | 61 | COMEDY |
5 | WCVB | 35 | USA | 62 | SCIFI |
6 | NEWSENG | 36 | LIFE | 63 | ANIMAL |
7 | WHDH | 37 | ARTS | 64 | TVLAND |
8 | PUAC008 | 38 | TLC | 65 | QVC |
9 | LOOR009 | 39 | DSC | 66 | FOOD |
10 | LOOR010 | 40 | COURT | 67 | HISTORY |
11 | WENH | 41 | FNC | 68 | GSN |
12 | WLVI | 42 | CNN | 69 | GOLF |
13 | WFXT | 43 | CNNH | 70 | HSN |
14 | WSBK | 44 | CSPAN | 71 | WWDP |
15 | WBPX | 45 | CSPAN2 | 72 | HBO |
16 | WGBX | 46 | CNBC | 74 | OLN |
17 | WUNI | 47 | TWC | 95 | EDAC095 |
18 | WNDS | 48 | ESPNCL | 96 | BET |
19 | WNEU | 49 | ESPN | 98 | LOOR098 |
20 | WMFP | 50 | ESPN2 | 234 | JWLTV |
21 | WUTF | 51 | NESN | ||
22 | LOOR022 | 52 | FSNE1 | ||
23 | WYDN | 53 | MSNBC | ||
24 | DISN | 54 | INTL | ||
25 | NIK | 54 | RAI | ||
26 | FAM | 55 | SPIKETV | ||
27 | TRAV | 56 | BCTC | ||
28 | MTV | 56 | EWTN | ||
29 | VH1 | 56 | INSP | ||
30 | FX | 57 | BRAVO | ||
31 | TBS | 58 | RTPI |
The Apprentice and the Police
I never thought I’d find myself writing about reality TV, but I recently picked up the DVD version of the hit television series: The Apprentice. I was in the Netherlands during the entire series and thus missed every episode. I thought I’d see what all the hype was about by watching the show commercial-free on DVD.
I’ve never bought a DVD of a television show before. The Apprentice DVD comes with a gimmicky box that says “you’re fired” every time it’s opened. Apparently though, they used cheap components to make this device; the voice plays at random times, and it sounds very robotic. In fact, it sounds almost exactly as though a cop is driving by outside and using his loud speaker (for example, telling a crowd to disperse).
Now, I just moved to Central Square a few days ago, and I live near some night clubs and a police station. Naturally, I might be a bit suspicious of late night commotion outside my window. It turns out though, that my neighborhood is not the police ridden riot zone I would expect based on all the police megaphone announcements. The commotion is just Donald Trump in my bookshelf, occasionally firing people during the night.