On Dec. 11, I was reading Rhaason Mitchell’s article, “A Few Hints to Pass Those Finals.” Although I found it fairly humorous, it reeked with an air of familiarity. I wondered where I had seen this list before.

So I delved into the vast archives of long-forgotten email that I had saved for years. I was not in the least bit surprised when my bleary, sleep-deprived eyes detected an old chain mail letter from the end of another semester.

This letter contained 50 or so “hints to pass those finals.” Of the 19 that are in Rhaason Mitchell’s list, 100 percent of them are in this letter, word for word — with the exception of the word “Fuck” being replaced with “[expletive.]”

Now, I may not be a journalism major, but something in my little bag of common sense and ethics tells me that you don’t take credit for something you didn’t write, even if the original source is unknown. I would think a senior in journalism should know this by now.

I don’t particularly care for chain mail in the first place, but do I have to get it again in the Daily? Rhaason Mitchell, your article is an embarrassment to the journalism profession.

Justin Hare

Sophomore

Computer science