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Originally Posted by yeotaJMU
That has nothing to do with anything. He isnt submitting something that was published.
He could say he wrote the same paper. How are they gonna prove anything?
Whether or not it was published is not the key distinction. A friend's paper probably wasn't published either. You still can't submit it as original work.
Again, they probably would not know, unless there's a copy of the original somewhere (electronic, never returned to OP, photocopy in prof's file, etc.) and somehow worlds collide.
Either way, it's still a huge risk to avoid a few hours of work.