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...make matters worst for Napolitano, her lagal battle challenging Princeton disciplinary procedures propelled her cheating scandal into the national spotlight, where she was portrayed unsympathetically. Princeton students now refer to the former senior as "Gabby" Napolitano herself recently told The Princetonian that "the majority of the Princeton community has ostracized...
...Napolitano deserves all the vituperation she has gotten, for plagiarism is the most serious academic crime possible. Her pathetic attempts to weasel out of penalties on sophistries--she insisted just two weeks ago that "there was no attempt on my part to deceive" her Spanish professor--warrant equal criticism. But as her legal appeals drag through the courts interminably, it becomes increasingly clear that other issues relating to the campus case--besides just how unethical Napolitano's behavior has been--are much more intriguing...
...Board, which Fox chairs, may seem big and had, but before on jumps to conclusions, it's worth realizing that Harvard's disciplinary policies diverge from those of most schools in ways that make the University both more merciful and less prone to public knock-down drag-outs like Napolitano's. Consider the following two aspects of Harvard's approach to punishment...
...There's no point in carrying on into eternity something which may have happened at the age of 17 or 18 or 19," says Fox. Given the promise of a clean slate, offenders have little incentive to go public with legal actions or loud denials. Were Princeton's Napolitano--who is particularly upset that her plagiarism violation may nix her hopes of getting into law school--a Harvard student, she might never have raised legal hell...
...whole, the system works. For Harvard, of course, that means a lot less grief, not to mention a lot better public relations. And more important, for the student facing discipline, it means a second chance. Gobrielle Napolitano may eventually win her case against Princeton via some legal loophole, but now that the world knows what she once did on a Spanish paper in the winter of 1981, that's chance she'll probably never...