Date: April 24th, 2006 11:56 AM Author: Cobalt Toaster
sure, if you like residue from a tacoma smelter 100 years ago, an inability to get to seattle more than a few times a day with an expensive boat ride, a 'downtown' which shuts down at 9 pm, a layout which means that every part of the island gets some noise and a sketchy history of white supremacists.
Date: April 24th, 2006 12:31 PM Author: soul-stirring plaza place of business
"residue from a tacoma smelter 100 years ago"
Probably overstated.
"an inability to get to seattle more than a few times a day with an expensive boat ride"
Biggest drawback from my point of view, but it comes with living in a suburb/exurb. Besides, who wants to go in and out of Seattle more than once or twice a day? You can't really do that from anywhere.
"a 'downtown' which shuts down at 9 pm"
Another drawback, but goes along with most non-cities/suburbs.
"a layout which means that every part of the island gets some noise"
Can't comment on that, but I'm not sure what kind of "noise" you mean.
"and a sketchy history of white supremacists."
Eh. History is history. Name an American city without a history of white supremecists.
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:26 AM Author: bistre arousing idea he suggested clown
I too hope her career is ruined, but sadly, it probably won't be. All she has to do is deny, deny, deny and it'll blow over. Or maybe she can embrace it: Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair got book deals out of their shenanigans.
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:34 AM Author: Tantric Corner
My thoughts exactly. Did she think she wouldn't get caught??? It's not hard to take someones idea, and rearrange/change the words just a little bit better than this, and it's not anywhere near as obvious.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:01 AM Author: floppy know-it-all stag film
Apparently she did think she wouldn't get caught.
I'm also curious if she might've plagiarized other authors in the book, given that these passages were only discovered because they were caught by a devoted fan of the other author.
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:39 AM Author: Salmon theater stage
After college, Viswanathan expects to work on Wall Street, possibly in investment banking. She told Boston Globe: ''Writing is not anything I see as my job…'It's just something I would do. Even now, I get itchy, I want to start writing again, and I haven't had time because I've been studying economics for finals all day. It's not some extraordinary activity. It's just, you go to meals, you sleep, you shamelessly rip off someone else's book."
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:42 AM Author: Fishy stage
No kidding. It's not like these are difficult concepts to portray. And it's not like the stuff that was plagiarized was all that brilliantly written in the first place.
That's what you get for giving a high schooler a book deal, while the literary genius of Extreme Fajitas wallows in obscurity.
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:44 AM Author: floppy know-it-all stag film
The fact that she plagiarized so much of her book, something that she knew was going to be released to the public and heavily scrutinized, makes me wonder how much she may have plagiarized in the past when she figured she wouldn't be under that much scrutiny.
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:58 AM Author: Hairraiser Alpha
from the slate link. If this policy actually means anything, she's fucked.
" Harvard policy requires instructors to report all suspected cases to the Dean of the College, and most such cases are ultimately adjudicated by the Administrative Board. If the majority of Board members believe, after considering the evidence and your own account of the events, that you misused sources, they will likely vote that you be required to withdraw from the College for at least two semesters.
Since a vote of requirement to withdraw is effective immediately, you lose all coursework you have done that semester (unless it's virtually over), along with the money you have paid for it. You must leave Cambridge; any return to campus will violate the terms of your withdrawal. You must find a full-time job, stay in it for at least six months, and have your supervisor send a satisfactory report of your performance in order to be readmitted. … Finally, any letter of recommendation written for you on behalf of Harvard College—including letters to graduate schools, law schools, and medical schools—will report that you were required to withdraw for academic dishonesty. [Italics in the original.] If you are required to withdraw for a second time, you will not, ordinarily, be readmitted."
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:42 AM Author: Stimulating umber rigpig trailer park
boy would i love to be a lawyer representing the first author... i think i may specialize in representing ppl whose works have been plagairaized by Harvard students
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:43 AM Author: Salmon theater stage
The problem is that the plagiarism was so poorly done and blatant. The similarity in phrases was amateurish at best- this looks more like a paper written at 5 am the morning of its due date rather than a book.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:04 AM Author: Stubborn background story
Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors, after reviewing a list of 24 similar passages found in “Opal Mehta” and “Sloppy Firsts,” wrote in an e-mail yesterday: “Judging by the excerpts you have assembled, and three department stores and 169 specialty shops later, it looks as though some strong version of anxiety of influence could clearly be detected in ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,’ all the more so because of those miniscule variations that change ‘Human Evolution’ to ‘Psych’ in the hope of making the result less easily googleable.”
Date: April 24th, 2006 1:59 AM Author: floppy know-it-all stag film
I really don't get it at all. The passages she copied were pretty shitty as is, and could've very easily been re-written in a way that didn't plagiarize the author.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:21 PM Author: vigorous greedy national security agency menage
Having watched the interview, I dont think the cunt has a genuine bone in her body. She is 100% shtick and not even particularly convincing.
Notice how she tried to convince us that she is "normal" that her high school experience was "normal." What the fuck ever you dumb cock sucking whore!
She knows damned well that we know her gork parents made her study the periodic table, the dictionary and study calculus when she was 7 years old. She drives a Range Rover (what a piece of shit and I guarantee you they haggled on the price and bought it for under invoice [one of the great unknowns in the automotive industry is where Patels actually buy their cars since they will spend 75 hours shopping to save $1]) and paid IvyWise 10k (guarantee you the cheap sacks of shit haggled the price).
We know goddamned well that she was planning to go to Harvard from the age of 4 and that every move since then has been to increase the statistical probability of admission there.
Fucking dot-heads are definitely the most humorless and phoney of all the races. Her fake laugh made me want to punch her teeth down her throat.
Serves the Patel right to go down in humiliating flames.
Date: April 24th, 2006 11:38 AM Author: Hairraiser Alpha
yup
"Late on Sunday, she signalled that she was already feeling the heat — her Facebook profile, which had been open to other Harvardians just a few hours before, now blocked access to non-friends."
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:26 PM Author: vigorous greedy national security agency menage
HHHAAAAAAHA...brutal! I bet she's read the thread already too. When you read this you stupid cocksucking skank, Americans like nothing more than to see mud races trying so desperately to fit in only to be brought down by their own stupidity.
All that time you spent, all those hours you spent....for nothing. You will forever be a lying cheat. Nothing more. Enjoy the USA dot-head.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:15 AM Author: Disrespectful House Mediation Subject: Fucking gag me...
Ms. Viswanathan's own parents have been intent on giving her a book party when she gets home from college this summer. "They wanted to have a red carpet strewn with rose petals," she said, her voice rising. "And I've just woken up and I'm still in my pajamas and my mom will call, and she'll say like, 'Kaavya, would you prefer pink or white rose petals?' "
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:22 AM Author: Low-t pozpig
The thing is, it is clear she is a spoiled brat through and through. No one gets 500k and a dreamworks pickcing up the option to your book out of high school without being a brat with connections.
Date: April 24th, 2006 3:10 AM Author: copper spectacular juggernaut
She's a spoiled brat who has been receiving Affirmative Action. Are Indians considered URM's? Both of her parents are medical doctors so it doesn't make sense why she gets AA.
She was offered an internship for minorities during a previous summer.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:24 AM Author: Hairraiser Alpha
"Her parents were not immune to the competitive pressure, however. Because they had never applied to an American educational institution, they hired Katherine Cohen, founder of IvyWise, a private counseling service, and author of "Rock Hard Apps: How to Write the Killer College Application." At the time IvyWise charged $10,000 to $20,000 for two years of college preparation services, spread over a student's junior and senior years."
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:47 AM Author: Disrespectful House Mediation
The college board threads indicate that she hired an expensive college admissions counselor. That counselor saw some of her writing and showed it to her connections. Those connections shopped it around.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:45 AM Author: Glittery Flushed Lay
Hilarious. I really wonder what this dolt was thinking. Maybe she'll try the old "it was all subconscious; I don't even remember reading those books, but I guess I might've" bit.
Date: April 24th, 2006 2:48 AM Author: bistre arousing idea he suggested clown
I'll bet that's what she tries to do. Either that, or a tearful apology blaming it on her parents, which she then leverages into another book with remarkably similar subject matter.
Date: April 24th, 2006 3:03 AM Author: misunderstood round eye library
"Kaavya, although you may one day dress your children in Ralph Lauren and your dog in Burberry, do not think I will shun you for it. It is a secret dream of mine too. Kaavya, you are brilliant, and I hope your brains will be useful in getting us out of all the trouble we will hopefully make for ourselves in Boston."
Date: April 24th, 2006 7:55 AM Author: maniacal thriller temple skinny woman
If someone ships me a gun assembled in a foreign country, I'll be more than happy to go and exact justice, because I'm CERTAIN the pansies at Harvard will probably make her a Rhodes scholar for this stuff. I'm sickened.
Date: April 24th, 2006 8:59 AM Author: big twisted regret
"Well, my favorite handbag, my mom bought it for me before I started school this year. It's one of those black-quilted Chanel ones. So that's my all-time favorite handbag. In terms of clothes, I generally shop, well, I don't shop that much while I'm at school just because it's such a pain to go into Boston. But I shop a lot at department stores like Saks, Neiman Marcus. I like Theory, I like Tahari, Robert Rodreguez. Pink Tartan, is one of my favorites."
Date: April 24th, 2006 9:53 AM Author: nubile hyperactive kitty
Is this guy drunk?
"Judging by the excerpts you have assembled, and three department stores and 169 specialty shops later, it looks as though some strong version of anxiety of influence could clearly be detected in ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,’ all the more so because of those miniscule variations that change ‘Human Evolution’ to ‘Psych’ in the hope of making the result less easily googleable.”
Date: April 24th, 2006 11:43 AM Author: Hairraiser Alpha
"A Harvard student had been found in a compromising position, and less than 24 hours later, a frisson of sadistic glee was creeping up the Internet's electronic backbone."
"Teutonic shameful joy"... "frisson of sadistic glee"
"Internet's electronic backbone"... the routers and telephone lines? or is this perhaps just a fancy way to refer to the internet itself?
"The mainstream media soon grabbed onto the story with both inky hands"... inky hands?
interesting article, though. really makes me hate this bitch: either she's a cheat or a fraud. her privilege made her everything that she is, and what they call schadenfreude is more accurately a sense of satisfaction at seeing justice served.
Date: April 24th, 2006 11:47 AM Author: Chrome swashbuckling macaca mother
Like they said above, you're can't plagiarize at Harvard until *after* you get tenure. Then you say "it was my research assistant's fault, although I certainly am sorry."
Date: April 24th, 2006 3:06 PM Author: Odious Startling Base
I watched the video and she sounds like a really conceited Indian bitch. Oh other than the fact that "my parents are both doctors and we both go to Harvard we are like, so different!"
Date: April 24th, 2006 3:30 PM Author: slate market
"You know, a lot of Indian authors have chosen to write something in the literary genre... why did you pick this, why did you write something so mainstream?"
Translation: your trashy chick lit brings shame upon your people and your heritage. May you be crushed by an eight-armed holy elephant.
Date: April 24th, 2006 5:12 PM Author: fantasy-prone stain locus
This is the ultimate self pwn3age. And it couldn't have happened to a more snooty, self absorbed, and spoiled gunner indian bitch. Being Indian myself, I feel ashamed to call her one of our own.
On a side note, Sanjay Kumar, the ex CEO of Computer Associates pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges today. I guess today is "disgrace your race day" for Indians.
a peculiar truth about well-off indians in this country: almost all of their daughters are rich spoiled bitches. the race resonates with us because we all know or have met at least a half dozen of this girl, and we've all noticed her race.
sorry, but her being indian matters, just like a $3million JAP's bat mitzvah matters, just like the new lexus SUV a white mexican pre-med gets for making a B+ in orgo matters. new immigrants and minorities LOVE to publicly reward their children's success at having been born rich.
Date: April 24th, 2006 9:53 PM Author: Irate marvelous goyim school cafeteria
"a peculiar truth about well-off indians in this country: almost all of their daughters are rich spoiled bitches. the race resonates with us because we all know or have met at least a half dozen of this girl, and we've all noticed her race."
If you think it's limited to Indians, you're severely misled. I've met hundreds of girls like this bitch, and they tend to come from all races. SoCal real-estate New Money girls are the absolute worst. I bet if you squeeze their faces, you can get their botox to leech out and spread, causing all kinds of droopy problems.
Date: April 24th, 2006 5:56 PM Author: wine bat-shit-crazy crotch business firm
and for her next trick--i mean, book--she'll interpret this malady positively, and then spin it into a story about her namesake anagram in an attempt to create real literature.