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...PATHETIC SAGA of Princeton University student Gabrielle Napolitano attracted nationwide attention this spring. A 3-7 GPA senior cruising toward law 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...
...many, Napolitano's act of plagiarism itself was shocking, Yes, Grandma, cheating pervades campuses these days--even within the prestigious Ivied walls. But what made the senior's blunder news-worthy was her unprecedented retaliatory action Napolitano sued Princeton, confessing to the plagiarism rap but claiming that the University had denied her "due process" under law. Napolitano fought in court for her diploma and lost, though she has vowed to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. She told Time magazine. "My whole purpose is to avoid having the label of plagiarist attached for the rest...
Appearing before a ten-member faculty-student committee on discipline. Napolitano did not deny the basic allegation; she challenged the conclusion that she had deliberately plagiarized. She insisted that all she had done was to commit a "technical error" while she was also rushing to complete her senior thesis. Several character witnesses spoke in her behalf, including the associate director of athletics and English Professor Hans Aarsleff, her senior thesis adviser. He told the committee: "The quality of her work and thought lias been of the highest caliber, her reliability and integrity have been un impeachable, and her willingness...
...Napolitano then petitioned Bowen for clemency but was denied. Said Bowen: "Given all the circumstances, including the seriousness with which we view plagiarism, it [the decision] seems to me the only proper outcome." Bowen added the hope that the disciplinary action would make the student "a better and stronger" person. Napolitano responded by securing the services of a New Jersey law firm, which filed suit in New Jersey Superior Court. "My whole purpose is to avoid having the label of plagiarist attached to me for the rest of my life," Napolitano insisted in an interview with TIME. "I really didn...
...American Council on Education: "This woman is not concerned with establishing some profound legal principle. She knows jobs are tough to get out there, and that when you have a mark against you, it is all that much tougher. She's trying to protect herself." But if Gabrielle Napolitano succeeds in reversing the university's action, the danger is that she may establish a legal precedent, one that could erode the right of Princeton and other private universities to act as the sole judge of misconduct within the province of academic behavior. That prospect is viewed with unease...