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CENTRAL CAMPUS, Ithaca, NY<\/strong>\u2014In an effort to save paper, Cornell students have begun recycling their essays for each class. This means that when a student has received the paper they turned in last week, that student immediately hands the essay back to the professor to turn in the essay this week, regardless of whether that essay has the professor\u2019s markups, grammar corrections, comments, or an \u201cF.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this may seem like an immediate violation of the policy of Academic Integrity (it is), students and faculty alike claim that its potential for energy efficiency is remarkable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Professors appreciate the new environmental effort as well, for they claim that if they never have to read an essay more than once, they can just give the student the same grade over and over again, a concept known as \u201cgrade stagflation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Students also claim that, especially in English courses, the essay prompts are vague enough that \u201cpretty much anything will pass for why Titus Andronicus<\/em> is not a tragedy in the traditional sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said one sophomore, \u201cNot having to write a completely new essay for my history class means that I save a bunch of energy by not expending my brain capital. That\u2019s like, enough energy to run six smart cars, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact, one student has been reusing just one essay his older brother wrote in high school to prove he\u2019s a model of efficiency. Sadly, this student will have to leave Cornell next year because his academic probation has terminated.<\/p>\n

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