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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating (Is it clearly definable?)
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 23:58:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 21 23:58:51 1987
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Organization: odu computer science, norfolk, va
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Keywords: you can't get through the job interview if you don't know the subject

> The third category, mandated by Affirmative Action, is the real zinger.
> It was the consensus of people I spoke to at that time that one simply
> could not ask questions of the form ``Can you solve this problem?''

?!?  You have GOT to be kidding!  Presumably the employer wants to hire this
person to solve "this problem" or a related class of problems, otherwise why
question the applicant about it?  What does this have to do with
discrimination?  Is the employer supposed to hire the dimwit, THEN find out it
can't solve the problem, fire it, and shell out severance pay??

Please, someone tell me this is just a horrible nightmare...

kyle jones, old dominion university
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