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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...
...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: 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?...