Plagiarism

Plagiarism Plagiarism is a problem that is becoming widespread throughout society. By simply searching through newspapers one can notice increasingly more articles involving plagiarism. This particular article, “Age no excuse for plagiarism,” written by David Zhou is very thought provoking. The conflict is Harvard’s decision to revoke Blair Hornstine’s acceptance to the university for plagiarizing an article. In my eyes, Harvard University should not have taken away Hornstine’s acceptance because of a few important points. Blair Hornstine was accused of plagiarism in an article that she had submitted to the school newspaper. In my opinion, school newspapers are not as important as papers written for classes. An article in a school newspaper does not count for a grade in a specific class. It is an extracurricular activity in which Hornstine wished to participate. If she were accused of plagiarizing an essay that was mandated for class and a grade, my viewpoint would be different. Because she had plagiarized a section of a school newspaper and not a paper to be graded, Harvard should have stayed out of the ordeal. I think Harvard should have looked at Hornstine’s overall “academic” success. It plagiarism, plagiarizing, plagiarized, should, harvard, school, hornstine’s, university, acceptance, newspaper, hornstine, article, taken, hard, decision, work, think, serious, paper, graded, grade, class, been, away, yet, wrong, written, way, valedictorian, through, taking, student, specific, situation, revoking