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...campus, which is just half a mile away from Harvard Yard. “It’s kind of safer, because everyone’s on alert,” said freshman Kimberly L. Tringali. “In my hall, people used to open the door for random guests. And I never see security around.” Susan B. Marine, director of the Office of Sexual Assault, said that it is rare for a student to be sexually assaulted by a stranger, like in this case. “85-90 percent of the time, the victim...
...three or four times” several years ago, as Viswanathan says she did, would produce such a close match. As one letter to the Crimson noted, it’s hard to internalize italics.This is unquestionably a serious offense. Plagiarism is, as an executive at Random House put it, “literary identity theft,” a high crime in both the publishing and academic worlds. Particularly at an institution that aspires to embody veritas each and every day, Viswanathan’s apparent misrepresentation and her suspect excuse demonstrate a lack of integrity.A similarly disappointing corollary...
...NBC’s morning show just six blocks south of where McCafferty made her first public appearance since becoming ensnarled in a plagiarism controversy that has captivated the publishing industry. McCafferty declined to comment, however, on Viswanathan or the escalating exchange of words between their two publishers, Random House and Little, Brown. Viswanathan has acknowledged using passages similar to those in two of McCafferty’s works, though the young author said again yesterday that she had done so unintentionally. A phalanx of officials from Random House and the New York Public Library closely guarded McCafferty...
...Random House says it has documented 45 passages in Viswanathan's novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," that bear striking similarities to McCafferty's first two books, "Sloppy Firsts" and "Second Helpings." The publishing house said yesterday that it was not satisfied by Viswanathan's apology or explanation, and would not rule out legal action against her and her publisher, Little, Brown...
...Steve Ross, the senior vice president and publisher of Crown Publishers and Three Rivers Press—two subsidiaries of Random House—characterized Viswanathan’s statement as “deeply troubling and disingenuous...