Edumacated (Score 2, Interesting)

Im a 2nd year electrical engineering student at one of the top universities in Canada and in some of my programs, they now specify a minimum number of references and at least half of your references for something have to be from a peer reviewed journal and no more than one from wikipedia. Some of this seems to be out of genuine concern for making sure your information is correct. But with Wikipedia having been proven to be nearly as accurate as Encyclopedia Britanica (http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/12/15/1352207.shtml?tid=95&tid=14) and here (http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/24/0114228.shtml) the rest of it seems to come from a group of people who are scared whitless that nobody will ever be forced to read their life's work. I've also been driven violently angry by spending an order of magnitude more time hunting through poorly setup journal databases for what should've been an easy find as actually doing the assignment.