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...charge. 2. Prof. of Second Life Charlie Nesson, for rolling up the windows. 3. The Z-list, for making Jared “Charles Foster” Kushner possible. 4. Kurtz-ian football coach Tim Murphy, for proving you don’t need players to win games. 5. Kaavya Viswanathan, for her contributions to literature. 6.Cine-ass Andrew Bujalski, for really, you know, capturing the zeitgeist or whatever. 7. Pretzel-in-Chief Will Marra, for being a good sport. 8. God, for being cool with everyone thinking they’re Him. 9. Filmmaker James Toback, for somehow...
Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I?m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking...
...college blog,” and it’s like watching a prophesy play out before your eyes. Nick Summers: Just for the record, we don’t consider ourselves visionaries or anything. We rue the fact that [we] weren’t around for Kaavya last year. We and everyone else are a semester late. 2.FM: Why this year as opposed to any other year?C: Blogging is becoming something that is more socially acceptable. There’s that, and it’s probably that a lot of college kids are discovering that there?...
...course, the elimination of academic dishonesty all starts with the individual. If everyone takes responsibility for themselves, then we’ll be on the right track. Plagiarism and other forms of cheating are simply not worth the potential consequences (Viswanathan, Kaavya; 2006). If you get caught, you’ll find yourself suspended for a year from Harvard and working the night shift as a security guard for a morgue (anonymous friend) or stuck in Iraq (Kerry, John; 2006). Plus, cheating might yield some unforeseen side effects, such as home run records, uncontrollable rage, and the diminution of one?...
...program was launched before The Crimson discontinued two editorial-page series amid evidence that the authors had lifted material from other sources—but after plagiarism allegations against novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 led her publisher to pull her book from the shelves...