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...sort of nepotism involved.”Nevertheless, Rinere wrote in an e-mail that organizers would “refine the process somewhat” next year.Rinere said that the concentrations of selected Fellows was similar to the make-up of the student body. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, whose recent book, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life,” was pulled from bookshelves after she was accused of plagiarism, was one of the fellows present at the session, according to several attendees. —Ying Wang contributed...
...editors: I strongly disagree with editors’ comments (“One Week Later,” April 28) that anyone associated with Harvard could or would take any smug, jealous satisfaction in the downfall of Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan caused by her apparent plagiarism in her recently released “chick-lit” novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” Nor is there any xenophobia at work here. Anyone associated with Harvard must be appalled that Harvard’s name came to be associated...
...reprehensible.” Its offensiveness reaches far beyond “the authors and publishers of the plagiarized works” and has touched the community of words and ideas at large. The authors of the opinion seem unaware of how far the impact of Kaavya Viswanathan’s actions has extended “off campus.” This is not an on-campus, off-campus issue. Furthermore, plagiarism is not a seepage problem. The author did far more than overstep her bounds. Harvard is bound up with Viswanathan and has been since before the plagiarism...
...editors: Re: “One Week Later,” comment, April 28: Why the big fuss? Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism was no more than a case of standard ghost writing, the legitimacy of which has been so perfectly “internalized” by the “intelligentsia” in the country of her origin. It is not at all rare in India for parents to do school work of their children. When the project is found to be beyond their caliber, they resort to engaging professionals for the purpose, and any number...
...editors: I am writing to refute the arguments of Charles Drummond (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, April 26). Kaavya Viswanathan, in her debut novel, has not taken “few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages,” but something much more egregious than that. She has taken the plot, prose, and language from another novel and with no reinvention whatsoever tried to pass them off as her own. Yes, I acknowledge that we live in a super-competitive age, but there are limits to everything. Let?...