# The Dean caught plagarizing or, How to bring shame and discredit to your university in one easy step

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**Created:** [June 14, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dean-caught-plagarizing-or-how-to-bring-shame-and-discredit-to-your-university-in-one-easy-step/585424 "2011-06-14T14:06:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dean-caught-plagarizing-or-how-to-bring-shame-and-discredit-to-your-university-in-one-easy-step/585424/41 "2011-06-21T00:15:23Z")

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Yeah, I have to side with Muffin on this one - I just don’t happen to know any dishonest Deans, Masters or Heads of Faculties, which is why this fellow pisses me off so.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dean-caught-plagarizing-or-how-to-bring-shame-and-discredit-to-your-university-in-one-easy-step/585424/42 "2011-06-21T04:55:41Z")

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I knew a dean once who was kind of dickish and authoritarian, but none of the dozen or so were dishonest.

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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dean-caught-plagarizing-or-how-to-bring-shame-and-discredit-to-your-university-in-one-easy-step/585424/43 "2011-06-21T05:06:16Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I knew a dean once who was kind of dickish and authoritarian, but none of the dozen or so were dishonest.

This is my experience. I’ve known a number of deans since I’ve been teaching, and while some of them are incompetent, some of them are assholes, and some of them are annoying dictatorial micro-managers (or a combination thereof), I haven’t worked with any who’ve turned out to be dishonest.

College presidents, on the other hand…

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