Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree

Re:Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree by redis_mlc on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:29PM (#25118440)

> the default is for the professors and students to be collaborators and trust each other rather than be adversaries.

Can you explain why professors and students would be adversaries?

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Re:Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree by cowsandmilk on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:04PM (#25119202)

I knew a professor who was sued by a student over her grade on an exam. Going through that made him keep the originals of each student exam and only return photocopies so that he would have your original work if it ever came to that in court.

Toxic event breeding more toxicity.

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Re:Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree by saagarjha on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:02AM (#25121943)

I had a professor brag about a legal battle where he got GitHub to take down a student's submission for the class project (which was of course the same every year) because it contained his "copyrighted material" (read: a mediocre, incomplete MIPS emulator and hacked-together toolchain). Some professors are just not very nice people about these things.

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Re:Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree by WalterBright on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:01PM (#25119535)

How very sad.

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