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GC students need to be informed
GC students need to be informed
At the risk of drawing attention to an opinion piece printed on March 2 that is openly defamatory, I feel it is necessary to respond to the charges leveled at the entire public safety community here at Georgia College.
I regret to inform Colonnade readers about an instance of plagiarism that was published in the paper. A column containing paragraphs that were almost identical to an Associated Press column covering the same topic, but contained no attribution, was published.
A meme is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena,” according to Mashable.com
We are taught for tests, not long-term learning
As a student of Mass Communication and prospective career-journalist, I wish that the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgia College student newspaper would be more adept at defending her essential First Amendment rights. Her recent column, “Memes are offensive,” has shown a blind support of the school’s administrative agenda without consideration of its implications.