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What makes Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 unusual is not the fact that she plagiarized passages from another author??s work—it’s the fact that she got caught.Well, that and the fact that she scored a six-figure book contract.According to the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University, 40 percent of college students admit to “cut-and-paste plagiarism.”If several rounds of editors at Viswanathan’s publishing house, Little, Brown, couldn’t weed the words of other writers from...
...ensure that students are aware of its expected standards of behavior, that those standards should apply broadly is in the best interest of our institution. What does all this mean for Viswanathan? Her work was knowingly and intentionally associated with Harvard—indeed, the first line of the author??s biographical information in the novel, above all, noted that she is a Harvard student. Regardless of the particulars of guilt or innocence in this case, it is manifestly a valid concern of the Harvard community. Instances of plagiarism in the novel may have been unintentional...
...regional and national press over what insiders are calling “Opalgate” is bordering on the absurd. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, author of “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” borrowed liberally from another author??s work. So what? In the hip-hop world, this goes down all the time. The main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders of giants...
...recent years,” Lewis writes in his online author??s note, “the University has had its head turned ever more by consumerism and by public relations imperatives, to the detriment of its educational priorities for students.” Harvard has turned its head, and we have followed...
...September 2003, a DePaul University professor accused Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz of “wholesale lifting of source material” from another author??s book. Dershowitz defended his book, “The Case for Israel,” and called the allegations “funny.” —Anton S. Troianovski contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer David Zhou can be reached at dzhou@fas.harvard.edu...