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Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I?m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking...
...course, the elimination of academic dishonesty all starts with the individual. If everyone takes responsibility for themselves, then we’ll be on the right track. Plagiarism and other forms of cheating are simply not worth the potential consequences (Viswanathan, Kaavya; 2006). If you get caught, you’ll find yourself suspended for a year from Harvard and working the night shift as a security guard for a morgue (anonymous friend) or stuck in Iraq (Kerry, John; 2006). Plus, cheating might yield some unforeseen side effects, such as home run records, uncontrollable rage, and the diminution of one?...
...program was launched before The Crimson discontinued two editorial-page series amid evidence that the authors had lifted material from other sources—but after plagiarism allegations against novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 led her publisher to pull her book from the shelves...
French maid? Too sexy. Captain Ahab? Too pretentious. These costumes strike just the right blend of clever and conversation-stopping. 1) Harvard football player dressed as convict 2) Lawrence Summers dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein (woman in science) 3) Kaavya Viswanathan dressed as Megan McCafferty 4) Derek Bok dressed as a zombie 5) HRC President dressed in a Village People outfit
...charges against Viswanathan—that she lifted lines from other authors and passed them off as her own—differ from the allegations against Ilyinsky, who marked the passages as quotations but appears not to have credited the sources where she found them...