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Kathleen E. Breeden ’09, the former Crimson editorial cartoonist whose series was discontinued this week after a plagiarism investigation, admitted yesterday to unintentionally copying the work of Newsday cartoonist Walt Handelsman, but she defended the integrity of the other cartoons under investigation, including the second drawing retracted by The Crimson...
...Breeden said she takes full responsibility for the similarity to Handelsman’s cartoon but cited “mitigating factors” she would not disclose...
...know in the one case with the Handelsman cartoon, I had seen that before, so I support The Crimson’s decision to pull the cartoon,” Breeden said in an interview yesterday. Both Breeden’s Oct. 25 cartoon and Handelsman’s cartoon depict President Bush and a democratic donkey standing side by side...
...further investigation, we also became aware of similarities between a cartoon by Breeden published March 9 depicting former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Michael D. Brown and a cartoon drawn by Bob Englehart on Sept. 29, 2005, in the Hartford Courant. Both cartoons depict Brown with eight arms pointing in various directions. We have concluded that Breeden’s March 9 cartoon is also her original work...
...also announced that Breeden’s weekly editorial cartoon would be discontinued for the remainder of the semester. Breeden, however, will have the opportunity to continue to contribute to the Crimson as an illustrator for the editorial page. Both Breeden and Victoria Ilyinsky ‘07, whose biweekly opinion column was discontinued last week because of improper citation in her Oct. 16 opinion piece, will have the opportunity to reapply for semester-long cartoonist and columnist positions, respectively, when applications are considered in February...