To discipline or not.THE RUCKUS OVER HARVARD SOPHOMORE Kaavya Viswanathan Kaavya Viswanathan (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian-American undergraduate student at Harvard College. She came to public attention when her debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, was revealed to have been plagiarized from multiple sources. has gone silent in recent weeks, but it will brew anew if the college makes a decision to discipline her. Accused of plagiarizing material in her chick-lit book, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, Viswanathan defended herself by saying that she did not intend to snag words from other authors. "When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own," she said on NBC's The Today Show. Since the alleged word-borrowing did not take place in a Harvard course, guidelines on the school's actions are unclear. In 2001, a student was forced off two student publications after she plagiarized pla·gia·rize 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. material from Forbes, according to The Harvard Crimson. Harvard did not take disciplinary action against that student. According to a spokesman, the college may or may not choose to put the Viswanathan matter before its disciplinary body. "We would never discuss an investigation by the Administrative Board A comprehensive phrase that can refer to any Administrative Agency but usually means a public agency that holds hearings. An administrative board is usually obligated to represent the public interest; courts, in contrast, must remain impartial between the two parties of any student," says Robert Mitchell, director of Communications Director of Communications is a position in the private and public sectors. The Director of Communications is responsible for managing and directing an organization's internal and external communications. for the Faculty of Arts Historically the Faculty of Arts was one of the four traditional divisions of the teaching bodies of universities, the others being theology, law and medicine.[1] Nowadays it is a common name for the faculties teaching humanities. References 1. and Sciences. "We would not discuss whether an investigation exists or not." |
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