Summary
The uproar about University of Maine professor Paul Grosswiler's offer of extra credit to his students for burning an American flag prompts me to make a confession. Back in April 1999, beset by a pack of malingerers begging for extra credit to compensate for nine weeks of nonperformance, I offered 250,000 extra points to any individual or group who went down to Washington, D.C., and burned down the Internal Revenue Service headquarters.
Explanatory note: I had devised a point system for grading, i.e., 700 points for a "C" up to 1,000 points for an "A." So a group could share this treasure-trove of extra points among themselves.See the full content of this document
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This offer served two purposes. First, it ...
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