Re: Woman steals 1997 dissertation

In article <dfhbf7$a6o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lee Rudolph
<lrudolph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> k wallace <wallace.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >David C. Ullrich wrote:
> ...
> >> someone 40 years old today was 32 in 1997. It's
> >> happens all the time (alas) that people get PhD's in math
> >> at that age or older.
> >
> >WTF with the 'alas'???
>
> My guess is that David is not bemoaning the simple proposition
> "it happens all the time that people get PhD's in math at age 32 or
> older", but the complex proposition that "it happens all the time
> that people get PhD's in math at age 32 or older, and many if not
> all of those people have been in graduate school for 10 or more
> years before they get those PhD's".

Alas.

Of course, most [all?] graduate schools have strict limits on how long
you can be in a degree program. I think the 10+ students are switching
schools, sometimes multiple times.

Still, a department shouldn't accept such students.

--Ron Bruck
.

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