Bob Welch, a columnist for Eugene's Register-Guard, can't fathom why people like University of Oregon professor Gordon Sayre are excusing the fraud of "Margaret B. Jones". (Sayre, you'll recall, is the guy who said that Peggy Seltzer's lies were okay by him, since she put in the research to make them believable.) In an article published Sunday, Welch has no patience for that philosophy:

"With all due respect, to suggest, as Sayre does, that the end justifies the means seems a dangerous defense. Especially for someone whose job is to not only inspire students and share knowledge with them but, you’d hope, to make them appreciate the responsibility that goes along with the freedom to write. Or should."