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Many Many years ago I was studying Physics at university. One lecturer would enter the room and immediately begin to write up very smart notes to the board, which he read out as he did so. The set book for the course was owned by several of us and it soon became realised that all he had done was copy to sheets of paper, whole chapters of the book. One day an entire row of students had their copies of Jenkins and White open on their knees and when he was fully in his stride they began to intone, in unison, with him the contents of his "lecture". First he paused while the penny dropped, then he turned and made an emphatic Churchill victory sign- though his hand was back to front, and then walked out. Later we were told off by the Prof for rowdy behaviour. His conduct was not even questioned. Is it possible that the real reason some staff do not want their notes taped is not that they may be plagiarized but that they have already got there first. PS there was another occasion when the acoustics lecturer smugly announced that he had designed the acoustics of the lecture theatre we were in, and the whole class said "pardon?". Those were the days. Dave Laycock MBE Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC Computer Centre for People with Disabilities University of Westminster 72 Great Portland Street London W1N 5AL tel. 0171-911-5161 fax. 0171-911-5162 WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%