Posts Tagged: Parents Just Don’t Understand
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An Interview with Earnest Pettie, Our Secretive Hero of Wikipedia

Last week I reported on the secretive heroes of Wikipedia and their detailed academic descriptions of 90s hip hop classics. Over the weekend, the author of the two best entries-Warren G and Nate Dogg's "Regulate" and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's "Parents Just Don't Understand"-made contact. Earnest Pettie-or Earnestp if you prefer his now-defunct Wikipedia handle-is an editor at Break.com. And now we ask him some questions!

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How to Cheat and Plagiarize Your Way Through College

I think for a while we've all had a sense that there was a problem in our schools. Poor test scores, failing public schools, achievement gaps, all that bad stuff. We know that the Internet has made it impossible for young Americans, people barely eligible to vote while playing the lottery in a strip club, to "grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed." In other words, we are not good at cheating anymore.

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Co-Ed Dorm Rooms Offend Clueless Parent

Apparently conservatives have just cottoned on to the fact that a huge number of college dorms-and dorm rooms!-are co-ed. (Wait till someone tells them that the bathrooms have been going co-ed for a while now.) So this crazy woman takes to The Blogs to announce that she's horrified by her daughter living with a man in a dorm room and how they couldn't get out of it and how she stopped paying her daughter's tuition at Stanford. And her daughter was forced to explain the actual truth in the comments section of a Times blog. Isn't that just like parents-betraying their children on the Internet to their kids' [...]