Plagiarism and College

This is fascinating: a professor goes back to meet a student he failed for plagiarizing. (Her plagiarism was direct and outright, copying a paper directly.) Because he thought the consequences were too extreme, and the college system too regimented (“over and over I saw how the nature of the institution and its agents reduced the complexity of student experience to neat bureaucratic decision tree”) she was the only student he ever punished for plagiarism.