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« Football and free trade | Main | What rhymes with Mayo? » Friday, October 27, 2006Crimson columnist plagiarizes Slate?This just in, from an article by Sarah Schweitzer in today's Globe: Harvard's student newspaper says that one of its writers lifted material for her column on linguistics from a similar column posted a year earlier to Slate, an online magazine. The Harvard Crimson published an editor's note expressing regret for failing to reference the Slate column as a source for quotes from "The Great Gatsby" and "Little Women" used in the Crimson column. The Crimson editors plan to publish another note today saying that they will discontinue the biweekly column by Victoria Ilyinsky, and will remove the problematic column from the Crimson website. Failing to reference another news story as a source for quotes from novels doesn't sound so bad, but as someone who has spent many hours trolling through Amazon's  Still... I have to admit that the phrase "failing to reference X as a source for quotes from Y" makes me nervous. I'm sure that I've failed in the same way, in the past. Hopefully not so egregiously, though. Posted by Joshua Glenn at 10:18 AM
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