The Chicago Tribune reports:
Hours after trustees affirmed their "full confidence" in Southern Illinois University's president, who's been accused of plagiarizing parts of his 1984 doctoral dissertation, a published report surfaced that he copied sections of his 1975 master's thesis.
In an article published on its Web site Monday, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that a copy it obtained of Glenn Poshard's 1975 master's thesis on drug abuse and the document contained sentences found nearly verbatim in sources published earlier. The passages in Poshard's thesis are neither in quotation marks nor attributed to other sources, according to The Chronicle.
The first two sentences in his thesis, for instance, read, "Drug abuse is not a new phenomenon in America. Various forms of drug abuse have existed for years in the United States and other countries," according to The Chronicle. It compares that with two sentences from a 1969 U.S. government report that read, "Drug abuse is not a new phenomenon. Varying forms of drug abuse have been present for years in the United States and other countries."
Just so you know, The Chicago Tribune reminds us all:
Poshard, a former five-term congressman and one-time Democratic candidate for Illinois governor, has said he would not resign.
Those trustees don't want to give up on Poshard's Washington connections.Who's more outrageous Glenn Poshard or the trustees? They all should resign.
