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Students Secretly Collected Their Professor’s Best Life Advice.

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What happened

Students Secretly Collected Their Professor’s Best Life Advice.

Why it matters

The Quotes Have Gone Viral Students in Joseph Fasano’s class compiled his wisest reflections about love, writing, fear, creativity and growing up into a 152-page book.

Common ground

Back in 2016, students in Joseph Fasano’s freshman college composition class at Manhattanville University began jotting down the things he said in class.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron has a resonant “ghost.””
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The claim is reported by a cross-reference (Flipboard) and multiple web search results (AOL and another source describing the 'four-dimensional force'), confirming the existence of the 'resonant ghost' in the Super Proton Synchrotron.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron (or SppS, also known as the Proton–Antiproton Collider) was a particle accelerator that operated at CERN from 1981 to 1991. To operate as a proton-antiproton c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Proton–Antiproton_Synchr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Proton Synchrotron (PS, sometimes also referred to as CPS) is a particle accelerator at CERN. It is CERN's first synchrotron, beginning its operation in 1959. For a brief period the PS was the wo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Synchrotron
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, 6.9 km (4+1⁄3 miles) in circumference, straddling the border of France …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Proton_Synchrotron
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Claim 2: “Back in 2016, students in Joseph Fasano’s freshman college composition class at Manhattanville University began jotting down the things he said in class.”
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While the web search result 'New York Professor is Going Viral...' mentions the students' actions, and other sources confirm Joseph Fasano is a writer and Manhattanville University is a real institution, there is only one specific source linking the 2016 freshman composition class to the recording of his statements.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clara Fasano (December 14, 1900 – 1990) was an Italian born American sculptor known for her terracotta figures with religious or allegorical themes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Fasano
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph Fasano (born May 17, 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School. He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard Univ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fasano
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web search NEUTRAL — Manhattanville University (www.mville.edu) is an independent, co-educational liberal arts institution whose mission is to prepare students, through rigorous academic and co-curricular programs, for et…
https://in.linkedin.com/school/manhattanville-college/
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Claim 3: “Instructure, the company behind Canvas, says it has reached an agreement with the hackers who claimed to have compromised the online learning”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Instructure (the company behind Canvas) reached an agreement with hackers (specifically ShinyHunters) following a compromise of the platform.
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web search NEUTRAL — Instructure, the company behind Canvas, says it has reached an agreement with the hackers who claimed to have compromised the online learning platform used by millions of students and teachers nationw…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/company-owning-canvas-sa…
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web search NEUTRAL — Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals.Canvas back online after cyberattack shuttered learning platform for schools across U.S.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters on Thursday claimed responsibility for a hack into Instructure’s Canvas platform that facilitates course materials and class management for thousands of institutions.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/05/canvas-breach-…
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Claim 4: “Students in Joseph Fasano’s class compiled his wisest reflections about love, writing, fear, creativity and growing up into a 152-page book.”
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The claim is explicitly stated in one web search result ('New York Professor is Going Viral After His Students Secretly...'), but no other independent sources provide the specific detail about the 152-page book.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clara Fasano (December 14, 1900 – 1990) was an Italian born American sculptor known for her terracotta figures with religious or allegorical themes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Fasano
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is the list of episodes (Seasons 21–40) for the Food Network competition reality series Chopped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chopped_episodes_(seas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an …
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