If you are really serious about shutting Chip's plagiarism down, there's no point in telling Chip to shape up (yet again). What you have to do instead is to hit him in the pocketbook by going to his customers. If his big customers leave in droves, he'd have to change or get out of the business. 1) If you know a coach or event director personally who uses QU (especially if it's someone who has won several QU events lately or been otherwise featured on his Web site), show that person some of our examples and ask if they really want to be supporting a known plagiarist. Most educators who actually have the kids at heart would be outraged if they knew. 2) If that person is willing to make a change but doesn't know where to get questions from instead, suggest a source you know and trust--even yourself if it comes to that. Don't we all know deep in our hearts that we could do better for less money? As an example, I bid to write questions for a local cable-TV show this year without knowing they'd been using QU. After they saw a few non-QU samples and that they wouldn't have to put rounds together themselves from raw sets of QU questions (which is probably a big selling point for lots of places in and of itself), they vowed never to use QU again even if I quit--and that's without using the plagiarism angle at all. Quizbowl players of the world, unite! Bryce
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