You don't have to pay, you can follow or lead the way.


Here's one from a student...
I am a student at the University of Iowa and believe there is nothing wrong with your site. From what I have seen cheating is allowed only if you have an athletic scholarship. I have seen careless mistakes made by athletes that cheat and are never punished. Most professors from what I have seen care more about their research than the education of their students. The modern way of teaching is write a book with your fellow colleagues and make your students buy it and not only pad the University's research budget but also your fellow colleagues. Then read your book to the students in your lecture and if they don't understand something send them to one of your TAs and then hope that the TA speaks fluent English. Universities today are giant bureaucratic monsters that if were a true business would have the CEO indicted for fraud. Today the deans are busy talking about the dangers of binge drinking and that they really do care about the student body. This is a crock of s**t, they care about us yeah right. They want the parents of young students to feel confident that the thousands of dollars they spend each year are worth while. Meanwhile the entire student body fails every exam due to poor teaching abilities of the professors and to cover their butts they curve the class so a 62% for a class could be an A. Cheating in and of itself is wrong but what can one do if someone is not willing to teach the student what he/she needs to know to succeed in life. Not all professors are scum, some are not professors at all, they profess nothing but can teach a lot. (Name Withheld) From: dcross01@fiu.edu

I don't like what your doing. It's lazy sloths like you that drag down academics and the productivity of this country. I'm going to do what I can to get your msg into the faculty community's hands. I WORK for what I get.

Lazy Sloths? Interesting adjective/noun combination. Please do. School Sucks appreciates any PR we can get!

From: mmood@SEQUENT1.PROVIDENCE.EDU

Dear Mr. Sahr,

Thank you so much for getting on the web. It will be much easier to catch plagiarizers by using AltaVista than by trying to look up student sources in the library. I hope your website gets millions of papers online. I look forward to failing and expelling students who use their time in school to replicate research sources or actual papers found on the web.

Sincerely, Dr. Mood

Michelle S. Mood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Howley Hall, Providence College

You're welcome. Anytime. I hope it gets millions too!

From: caa074f@vma.smsu.edu

Now I've seen everything. How you can defend plagiarism as a justifiable and even "deserved" strategy for completing one's education is beyond me. But then, I'm just a college professor trying to help students learn something by doing their own work, not to mention their own thinking. At least you've recruited one more visitor to your web site. I'll have to monitor your catalogue so I know what papers to look for in my courses.

No, you haven't seen everything. Go to www.schoolsucks.com/exams.

From: Heather.Greder@bushnet.qld.edu.au

Hi Kenny, I am a teacher in Australia and would like to congratulate you on this wonderful sharing idea. What a way to promote cooperation instead of competition. Congratulations! I'm a Primary (Elementary) teacher and therefore not into "term papers" but I'm sure my students would be happy to share their work if you ever get around to catering for the youngest generation. We will check out your www page tomorrow.

Thank you, my lady from Down Under. Maybe a professor exchange program is what we Yanks need.

From: mchorost@tpoint.net

This is the sleaziest and most disingenuous "disclaimer" I've ever seen. How's it feel to be underwriting intellectual dishonesty on a large scale? Good luck, and I hope you get endlessly mail-bombed until you throw up.

This is the kind of guy who gets out of the shower to take a leak.

From: afilreis@dept.english.upenn.edu

Mr. Sahr: Please understand the Professor Conn has included a great many academics and others as recipients of this message. We tend to be people who take violations of academic integrity and honesty very seriously, and will be watching your "service" carefully.

Please do. Get as many of your friends to watch too!

From: kep@cco.caltech.edu

I recently received an email message regarding a web page designed to help students cheat on their term papers and was told you are in charge of this page. If this is the case, I would like you to know I am totally disgusted by you and what you stand for. I hope you are indundated with messages from other students and faculty expressing their anger, frustration, indignation and revulsion over people like you who continue to degrade the quality of education in this country. I fully realize cheating is a major problem in universities, but unlike you, instead of contributing to the problem I am resolved to prevent it to the greatest extent that I can. I am not that far removed from college myself (UCSD '93) so I know the pressures students are under, yet I managed to graduate in 4 years with a 3.9+ GPA from a nationally ranked university without ever cheating. I firmly believe my education was more valuable as a result, especially in areas which required me to write term papers. Students learn to write by doing it, not by plagarizing, which is one reason many college graduates can't seem to write in plain English. By the way, I received this message through the bulletin board for the Council on Undergraduate Research, which means faculty from all over the country are now aware of this web page and will no doubt forward the information to their collegues who have not yet subscribed to the bulletin baord. Armed with this information, hopefully faculty will be able to design assignments which render your web page useless. School DOESN'T suck!!!

Students:

Look at this long-winded tirade. This one probably thinks the inverted pyramid is in Egypt.

From: amos@Okway.okstate.edu

Dear Sir:

Any of my students submitting a paper obtained at your site and claiming it as their own will be flunked from my class and expelled from the university. I am passing information about your site along to all of my colleagues, as well.

Best of luck in your venture. You'll need in when the academic community jumps all over you.


Newsweek, AP, countless radio shows - you really should be in public relations.

From: hammer@asel.udel.edu

Kenny,I hope you have considered that you may be indicted for fraud. I presume it is illegal to aid a student in passing off another's work as his own. Legalities aside, what about the ethics of this issue? Flawed as the system is, is it better replaced by students doing no intellectual work at all, just downloading and copying?

Tom Hammer University of Delaware

Now there's an original. Fraud. And you are responsible for educating us?