Community | September 05, 2012 | 11 comments

Harvard Plunges Into Samsung Circle Of Hell As Record 125 Undergrads Probed For Plagiarism

source: http://origin-www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-30/harvard-plagiarism-probe-under-way-for-about...

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Think massive intellectual CTRL-C -> CTRL-V'ing occurs only in the highly rarefied air of smartphonism? Think again (via Bloomberg):

HARVARD PLAGIARISM PROBE UNDER WAY FOR ABOUT 125 CLASSMATES
STUDENTS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR COPYING ON FINAL EXAM
THOSE FOUND TO HAVE PLAGIARIZED MAY FACE 1-YEAR WITHDRAWAL
MOST WIDESPREAD CHEATING SCANDAL IN LIVING MEMORY

We are confident that as soon as said 125 classmates threaten to take down the "highly intellectual" world with them and expose all the other plagiarists if they go down, there will be a congressional hearing on the matter asap. Perhaps it is time for Harvard to change its motto from Veritas to Copytas?...

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/harvard-grapples-samsung-gate-125-classmates-probe...
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11 comments // Harvard Plunges Into Samsung Circle Of Hell As Record 125 Undergrads Probed For Plagiarism

  • Varex_Sythe
  • Aeryn_Fulton_Chesnavich
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      Aeryn_Fulton_Chesnavich  

    • I feel these students have shown they lack the moral fiber to be tomorrows leadership. While we decry corruption and crime amongst the "white collar" intelligensia, we see here corruption manifest BEFORE damage is done to the citizenry. These students should be expelled, and perhaps the humiliation and struggle that will entail will make them better HUMANS in the process.

    • 8 months ago
  • alexandrekBack
  • keithponder
    • +3
      keithponder  

    • This won't stop them. Every 4 or 5 years you hear about about a cheating scandal at an Ivy League school. Grad assistant selling test to undergrad students has always been widespread at Division 1 schools.

      Aptitude has very little to do with honesty. The GOP should tell you that.

    • 9 months ago
  • faye59
    • +5
      faye59  

    • Cheating is cheating. I don't want to sound self-righteous, but if you are fortunate enough to get accepted to an Ivy-League school, you should also be smart enough to paraphrase, use citations and do active research. I'd take the suspension and go back to prove that I could do the work myself. Their parents deserve this.

    • 9 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
  • Dagum
    • +4
      Dagum  
    • Vic_Romano:

      We are one of the most competitive societies ... or Corrupt?. And it reaches the level where they'll do "whatever it takes to win."...

      Many of these corrupt cheating little shits will end up in top political positions taking bribes, on Wall Street ripping off "muppets" or in board rooms of major companies running companies into the ground because of their own corruption/incompetence.. It's the way it has been. And this is how you get America.

    • 9 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • Vic_Romano:

      I worked with a guy a few years ago who had developed a software program for detecting plagiarism.....apparently plagiarism is significantly widespread in the scientific community. I have to wonder if these charges haven't come from Harvard utilizing his program. What is interesting to me is that they used it on students, when, according to him, faculty are alarmingly guilty of this.....

    • 9 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
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      Vic_Romano  
    • Incredulous:

      What's so bad about citing sources? It's been a while since I wrote a research paper, and I sure as hell never the grades or SATs to get into Harvard, but I always just made notes from every source I used.

    • 9 months ago
  • Incredulous
    • +2
      Incredulous  
    • Vic_Romano:

      well, it goes beyond just not citing sources....the guy who invented the software program I referred to said they would find entire passages, word for word, lifted from some other published paper.....dunno, but they have a sure fire method for detecting it now, and like I said, surprised it's being used on students and not faculty, but I guess I shouldn't be. Students will be reprimanded, faculty accusations could result in costly lawsuits, loss of tenure, administrations embarrassed, loss of research funding.....don't want to rock the money boat.

    • 9 months ago
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