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...school. Napolitano was caught in February with a Spanish-American literature paper almost entirely lifted from the work of a famous scholar. When pressed by her professor. Napolitano admitted that more than the passages which had been footnoted belonged to someone else. The paper was that of Josefina Ludmer, almost word for word. Following a drawn-out disciplinary process. Princeton denied her a diploma...
Napolitano's paper was an analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written for a course in the Spanish-American novel. In it she cited five quotations, appropriately footnoted, from a scholarly reference work by Josefina Ludmer. But after examining the paper carefully, Napolitano's professor, Sylvia Molloy, discovered that Ludmer was quoted far more often than the footnotes indicated. Molloy charged that Napolitano deliberately changed the page numbers of quotations cited by Ludmer to correspond to those in her own edition of the Garc...
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