Halburn Plagiarizes Marshall Press Release

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Serial Plagiarist Strikes Again - Copies Release, Adds His Name As Author 



It's really nice when a local girl succeeds.
What's not so nice is when a local asshole pretending to be a journalist takes the press release announcing that fact and puts his name on it and passes it off as if he wrote it.



Halburn's article announcing the selection of two Marshall University students for an economics presentation is copied word for word from Marshall's press release except with the byline By Mark Halburn added.

Here's the original:
http://www.marshall.edu/pressrelease.asp?ID=2028

It would be a lot easier and save space to just link to the article but we're not going to send him the hits, so here's the article Halburn "wrote":

HALL NOMINATED FOR SYMPOSIUM
Marshall Coed One Of 12 Finalists
By Mark Hallburn
Publisher
PutnumLIVE.com
A Putnam County Student taking an economics class in the Marshall University Lewis College of Business is one of two students that have been selected to be among 12 finalists who will present their ideas to a panel of top United States economists and policy makers during the National Economics Insider Symposium this summer.
While taking Principles of Microeconomic sophomore management major from Hurricane, and Natalie J. Faulk, a senior education student from Hartford, wrote winning papers for the competition. They will travel to Washington, D.C., June 11th-12th to make their presentations to a Nobel Prize winner in economics, a White House economic adviser, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, among others.
Economics and finance adjunct professor Ralph E. McKinney Jr., nominated the students.
“Marshall University is fortunate to have two of 12 finalists for this honor. This speaks highly of our commitment to research and education,” says McKinney.
Contestants could submit essays on one of the following economic issues: health care; the environment; education; housing; technology; or other economic issues needing to be addressed. Faulk wrote about Cap and Trade. Hall wrote about the effect of oil and gas costs on shipping costs. They will be competing for a top prize at the event.
While in Washington, finalists will present to Ben Bernanke, chairmen and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Paul R. Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counselor and Director of Research Department of the International Monetary Fund; R. Glenn Hubbard, former Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors; Karl E. Case, the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College; Frederic S. Mishkin, former Board of Governors member of the Federal Reserve; as well as the following research associates from the National Bureau of Economic Research: Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); David I. Laibson (Harvard University); and John List (University of Chicago).
Students will also tour the Federal Reserve and the White House.
The National Economics Insider Symposium is an exclusive event sponsored by Pearson Higher Education, a publishing company that offers textbooks under the brands Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman, Merrill and Prentice Hall.

They're identical.
In the real world that's known as plagiarism. Which could get you expelled from a University like Marshall. I guess the junior college that Halburn attended has looser standards than real schools. After all, they admitted him.

Shame on you Halburn, you unethical fuck.
Why would you think this was acceptable after you've been busted for it numerous times in the past?
You think we're running out of material? Well, all we have to do is wait for you to supply it, big boy. You come through every time.
This kind of unethical behavior is exactly what we've come to expect from you.

And isn't the word "coed" a little condescending? Didn't that word go out in 1970? Why didn't you call her a chick? Do you still use the word negro?

There is nothing wrong with printing a news release. What's wrong is when you pretend that you wrote it.