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...itself as an “ivory tower,” the undefined notion of behavior befitting of a Harvard student imposes a higher expectation of conduct (simply because of the Harvard name) without making clear what actions can knock us off that high ground. While we hope that Ad Board limits its scope solely to those actions that pertain to our lives as Harvard students, even more crucial is its explicit delineation of what actions warrant its intervention...
...Before the Ad Board takes a step as rash as disciplining a student for behavior outside her academic and extracurricular life at Harvard, it must make explicit the instances in which students are acting in their capacity as Harvard students and the instances in which they are not. Until the Ad Board defines such parameters, it has no jurisdiction over Viswanathan’s punishment, which should remain in the legal sphere. Even if she is found to have intentionally plagiarized passages from other novels, that offense, though certainly reprehensible, warrants punishment only from those whom she has offended?...
...letting the influence (if not the words) of other writers seep into her own prose, Viswanathan overstepped her bounds. Let us hope that the Ad Board does not overstep...
...aspects of the Opal Mehta controversy, and one of the most divisive, is the possibility of disciplinary action against its author, Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, by the Administrative Board of the College. Had her work been submitted for course credit, there would be no question that the Ad Board should act, whether or not the offense was intentional. But the current situation raises important questions about the distinction between a student’s academic career and personal life, and what the limits of the College’s disciplinary jurisdiction ought to be. The Ad Board does...
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