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Friday, March 02, 2007

UD Salutes...

...the student editorialists at The Cavalier Daily.


"[T]he claim that lifting dozens of paragraphs verbatim constitutes anything less than fraud is ludicrous," writes the editorial board of The Cavalier, the University of Virginia's student newspaper.

Too right.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has for some time successfully been making that ludicrous claim about her own blatant plagiarism, has been given an appointment at the University of Virginia, an institution famous for its honor code.

The editors note "the quickness with which some at the University discard standards of honor when it becomes convenient to do so. At the very least, it seems odd when a University that enshrines honor and expels anyone convicted of plagiarism hires an admitted plagiarist." The school comes down hard on student plagiarists, and then appoints the nation's highest-profile plagiarist.

"It's somewhat depressing to imagine the Miller Center [the campus outfit that's hiring her] ignoring Goodwin's tainted past in order to exploit her status as a celebrity historian of sorts." U Va's hypocrisy is making its students cynical.