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Music belongs to everyone

By Katie Finlon | April 1, 2013

On March 16, I was stumbling through Facebook—or life, rather—and came across a thought-provoking status from Connor Bernhard, 20, of Crystal Lake: “No one really owns music.” I was taken aback by the idea. Is it really something to consider?...

Meghan Connell | Northern Star Photo Illustration

The Plagiarism Problem: Instructors offer advice to avoid pitfalls

By Christopher Gibbs | August 29, 2011

  Kerith Woodyard, assistant professor of rhetoric and public communication, finds perfectly-written paragraphs in papers otherwise riddled with errors. Woodyard looks at papers uploaded to Blackboard where, depending on the class, all submissions are...