Word: kaavya
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...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...
...Swanson's tale to this year's ledger of fakery and its fallout. RadioShack CEO David Edmondson resigned over a tarted-up rsum. Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan has been roasted for her cribbed chick-lit novel. But Raytheon is a major government contractor that sells missiles, not stereos, and Swanson is a big boss, not a teenage undergrad. Still, he insists it all began with an innocent mix-up. Swanson asked staff members to compile a presentation from materials he kept in a file. It was such a hit that he and his staff collected 33 "rules...
What makes Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 unusual is not the fact that she plagiarized passages from another author’s work—it’s the fact that she got caught.Well, that and the fact that she scored a six-figure book contract.According to the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University, 40 percent of college students admit to “cut-and-paste plagiarism.”If several rounds of editors at Viswanathan’s publishing house, Little, Brown, couldn’t weed the words of other writers from...
Perhaps one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the Opal Mehta controversy, and one of the most divisive, is the possibility of disciplinary action against its author, Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, by the Administrative Board of the College. Had her work been submitted for course credit, there would be no question that the Ad Board should act, whether or not the offense was intentional. But the current situation raises important questions about the distinction between a student’s academic career and personal life, and what the limits of the College’s disciplinary jurisdiction...