Students are often keen to exercise their rights but recently there has been an interesting twist - some in India are talking about their right to cheat in university exams.
"It is our democratic right!" a thin, addled-looking man named Pratap Singh once said to me as he stood, chai in hand, outside his university in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. "Cheating is our birthright."
Corruption in the university exam system is common in this part of India. The rich can bribe their way to examination success. There's even a whole subset of the youth population who are brokers between desperate students and avaricious administrators.
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「Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List」と題する論文が、International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology(IJACT)で採用されたそうだ(論文: PDF、 Scholarly Open Accessの記事、 Voxの記事、 io9の記事、 本家/.)。
この「論文」は論文の体裁になっているが、計算機科学者のDavid Mazières氏とEddie Kohler氏が不要なカンファレンスの誘いを断るため、2005年にジョークとして作成したものだという。本文は「Get me off your fucking mailing list.」という文がひたすら繰り返されたもので、フローチャートや散布図にも「Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List」が使われている。