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...Adam B. Wheeler, the former Harvard student who pled not guilty last month for fabricating his academic history, applied to Stanford University after his dismissal from Harvard and was accepted at the California school for the 2010-2011 academic year...
...past week the story of Adam B. Wheeler has swept the nation. His unbelievable story of an alleged fabricated academic history has brought on parodies, increased scrutiny of the admissions process, and even comparisons to famous con artists like Frank William Abignale, Jr., famously portrayed in the film “Catch Me If You Can.” While the details surrounding Wheeler’s alleged lies and forgeries are of a sensational nature, academic dishonesty is unfortunately not a rare offense committed at Harvard. In a review of the Administrative Board of Harvard College, the College?...
...dishonesty in academia, and elsewhere, may bring people like this some measure of success, but it also deprives them of an actual self. In the week before my freshman year at Harvard I participated in an orientation week hiking trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and Adam Wheeler was a member of that trip. When the news of his story starting spreading rapidly, I looked back at the pictures of Adam and me in the woods and tried to call up any memory I had of him. With the veracity of his history under fire, it?...
...team characterized by its senior leadership, it was fitting that seniors would catalyze the season-changing 2-1 victory over Dartmouth. Senior defenseman Kwaku Nyamekye broke a scoring drought of a little less than a year when he knocked classmate Adam Rousmaniere’s corner kick into the right corner of the goal less than five minutes into the contest. Just as in the past two games, Harvard surrendered the lead when Lucky Mkosana pulled the Big Green even at 55:26. But this time, the Crimson responded when co-captain Brian Grimm kicked a deep ball that...
...team’s five seniors, Akpan, defender Kwaku Nyamekye, and midfielders Mitchell, co-captain Brian Grimm, and Adam Rousmaniere, kept the team on track all year long. Having come to Cambridge on the heels of a 6-8-2 season, Harvard’s seniors never once failed to reach the NCAA tournament during their careers. When the team started to fall off track, with a 4-0 loss to then-No. 17 UConn and a 2-1 upset by unranked Princeton, it was the seniors who set the team straight...