Posted AT 4:59 AM EDT on 16/01/04
Student rebel beats McGill in essay fight
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
From Friday's Globe and Mail
A McGill University student has successfully fought a growing trend at Canadian schools to make blanket use of Internet tools to check for plagiarists.
Jesse Rosenfeld, 19, refused to submit his economics assignments to a U.S. on-line company that vets schoolwork for plagiarism. Instead, he handed them in to his professor and received failing grades.
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