Word: diploma
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...supposed to get her diploma last spring, actually, but was found guilty of copying two full pages of a Spanish textbook in a term paper. Princeton's a Discipline Committee voted to withhold her diploma for a year. According to The Daily Princetonian, the campus newspaper, the plagiarism incident will remain on her transcript for life, thanks to a University policy...
Gabriclie Napolitano, who would have received her diploma in June, was found guilty in February of plagiarizing on a Spanish paper by the Discipline Committee, which voted to withhold her diploma for a year...
...lucre is not of the essence when confronting the inauguration of your higher education. Harvard's Student Handbook and Course Catalogue, as they are known to veteran readers, are classics in the field. The former scolds and pontificates, but also explains the mysteries of that hallowed golden fleece: the diploma marked Veritas. The latter tends toward verbosity: 821 pages last year, and perhaps bulkier still when re-released September 8. Its strength lies in a vast scope combined subtly with a scrupulous dedication to detail...
...helped institute a series of new rules last year which make it easier for undergraduate to get credit for study abroad and at other schools. Although this ought to be of little concern to incoming freshmen, he also proposed changes which would make the doling out of honors at diploma time a little more equitable. Now that you've read that, block it out of your mind--you haven't even filled out your first study card...
...hapless 17-year-olds stuck in seventh grade for he third or fourth time, critics have cried, are being denied their rights under a system penalizing them for learning little from schools that can barely teach literacy. The perfectly serious effort to defeat the "right" to a high school diploma, even for someone who cannot read or write, baffled many equal opportunity supporters and did damage to equal opportunity as an ideal...