<p>well, i want to start a good discussion here</p>
<p>on theu, when students were commenting about their schools, one student(ivy leaguer) mentioned her school is not a school where the pages are ripped from library books</p>
<p>i was fascinated by what she said! isn't that intense? ripping out a page from a library book to study or to prevent another student from getting the information O__O</p>
<p>She must go to Brown!</p>
<p>I think that’s a myth…</p>
<p>I’m from the UK and it is becoming rather common for fundamentalist Muslim students to rent out every single required book from the library in order to sabotage others. My friend’s university in London is investigating some students because of it.</p>
<p>I don’t understand the connection between Islamist and book thief.
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<p>^Sorry, yeah, I should’ve been more clear. There’s a fundamentalist ideology going round where people believe those that aren’t fundamentalist Muslim should not succeed. Some students are packing together to sabotage others, like taking out all the books from the library to stop others from researching. Apparently it’s more rampant at the medical and dental schools.</p>
<p>My friend who goes to that college is Muslim and she wouldn’t stop ranting about it after she was attacked for eating a bagel.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this sort of competition is at the Ivy league schools as stated by the OP, but it’s definitely not a myth at other institutes.</p>
<p>Unfortunately book damage is fairly common in university libraries. I can’t forget the time I began my PhD studies and was going through an East Asian Language library collection when I found a priceless book (there are only two copies in the US) that had profanity scrawled across the entire cover and nearly all the pages, with racist slurs along the spine in permanent marker as well.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>There are schools where students don’t rip pages out of library books?</p>
<p>^^Madison that is so sad!! I know what you mean, though, going through the Library at Cal I see all these old and gorgeous books just sitting their unprotected and don’t understand how anybody with an academic mind could ever deface it.</p>
<p>I heard a story about Academic Decathlon (in HS). According to Daniel Berdichevsky (held the title of highest scorer ever for 15 years), his team would hide books in local libraries related to the competition’s topic.</p>