Oops, Harvard students have done it again
Last spring, a young Harvard undergrad published a book. That book, "How Opal Meta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life," by Kaavya Viswanathan, was later recalled due to accusations of plagiarism. It was even a topic of
discussion on this blog. Now, two more Harvard students have been suspended from the Harvard Crimson, the campus paper, for the same accusation. What is going on at Harvard? Do students at any middle school, high school, or college or university not realize the dangers and consequences of plagiarizing? American Heritage defines the word as follows:
pla·gia·rize (plj-rz) P
v. pla·gia·rized, pla·gia·riz·ing, pla·gia·riz·es
v. tr.
1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another).
When did it become acceptable to practice this dishonesty?