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College students this spring watched the flameout of Kaavya Viswanathan, the prepackaged Harvard prodigy who published a best seller at 19 and had been exposed as a plagiarist by 20. That's not the way things are supposed to unfold. College is supposed to be about the Best Four Years of Your Life, "the love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books," not to mention pizza and football and long, caffeinated nights of debate and confusion and discovery. All that families have to do to succeed, say veterans of the admissions wars...
...When Kaavya Viswanathan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” made headlines for using passages “strikingly similar” to Megan McCafferty’s “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings,” an undergraduate wrote a letter to The Crimson, complimenting reporter David Zhou on his “infinite patience [for] reading countless crappy chick-lit passages...
...Approximate number of website hits on www.thecrimson.com on Tuesday, Apr. 25, at the height of the plagiarism scandal surrounding student novelist Kaavya Viswanathan...
Although her plagiarism-plagued novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” no longer graces bookstore window displays, life goes on for Kaavya Viswanathan ’08. The on-the-go life of an ambitious Harvard student, that is.During the summer, Viswanathan will be working at 85 Broads, a network founded in 1999 for female Goldman Sachs employees. The organization has since expanded to reach out to women attending business school and college. And when she returns to school in the fall, she will be interacting with freshmen...
This spring, when allegations of cheating arose after Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 was accused of plagiarizing passages from other novels for her book “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” a media blitz erupted. But when a number of students were caught cheating on midterms and homework assignments at the College 25 years ago, the issue quickly slid under the radar.Although these incidents have long faded from memory, in November of 1980, two professors reported instances of cheating during fall semester midterms.William H. Bossert...