I’ve just got back to London from a trip to New Zealand and wasn’t aware this had taken place, so I’ll contact the editors immediately. Clearly there’s been a misunderstanding.

Of your article on plagiarism.

Ah, the irony.

Found your article and this story via News of the Weird Daily weird for Feb 6.

A friend of mine, Ty McDonald, was fired from his position with the Daily Toreador, a student run newspaper at Texas Tech University. He was fired because he allegedly plagiarized a section of the article you published on June 11, 2006, entitled “Plagiarism and Intellectual Loot”. In actuality, he “plagiarized” from the same source as you – CrimethInc.’s book Days of War, Nights of Love, within whose pages “plagiarism” is explicitly endorsed. The absurdity of Ty’s firing and subsequent reprimandation within the pages of the DT, found here, should be immediately clear.

As Ty’s friend and with the interest of intellectual justice close at heart, I’m asking you to please e-mail the editor of the Daily Toreador as well as the Dean of Texas Tech University, requesting that he be reinstated and that a public apology be issued in the newspaper.

Here is the editor’s e-mail: michelle.casady@ttu.edu
And here is the Dean’s e-mail: pamela.eibeck@ttu.edu

Their names are, respectively, Michelle Casady and Pamela Eibeck (she’s got a Ph.D.!)

Yours in struggle,
-David Harding