A Columbia University professor was fired yesterday for violating academic integrity policies. Madonna G. Constantine, a professor of psychology and education at Columbia’s Teachers College, was relieved from her tenured position after plagiarizing the work of two former students and a former colleague.

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Brooklyn-based band the Creaky Boards have accused Coldplay--via YouTube--of stealing the melody for "Viva la Vida" from their song "The Songs I Didn't Write" (ironic much?). It's difficult to say whether the Boards' claim deserves any credit, but they definitely know how to get free

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Contributed by our always curmudgeonly, sometimes hilarious editor StenchBlossom…

 

There are probably a few of you out there reading this who are guilty of this most loathsome crime: plagiarism.  If you have ever plagiarized a work you are instantly made a thief and a liar, not to mention an idiot and insuff

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From Gawker.com, this is a map of plagiarism incidents at US colleges. Gawker's conclusion? "The Eastern half of the American student population [is] ethically bankrupt and growing shadier each year."

Well, at least UNC is clean!

And yeah, I totally stole this from DJ PM at Northwestern OTR. But I'm crediting him, so it's not theft, it's research. See what I did there?

Gawker.com just released a map pinpointing all the incidents of "creative borrowing" in college newspapers in the last three years.

The Daily makes it on the map for the 2006 incident when a students copied text from an article that had already been published in The Daily in 2004. That'... MORE »

Mizzou Alum Scott Beauchamp's essays have been nixed by the New Republic, after the magazine checked up on his facts about Army tales from Iraq.

The New Republic is retracting his essays, not necessarily saying he lied, but not trusting he didn't, either. His ... MORE »

The Education Planning Guide in Tuesday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette relates a handful of poorly-executed attempts to cheat. The title of this post refers to a professor who caught a student plagiarizing once, allowed her to submit a second paper (on plagiarism), then caug

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Looks like the Daily might be reading OTR! Today's letter from the editor addressed an "allegation" of plagiarism in Lara Levi's oh-so-controversial blow-job guide sex column, "Just the Tip" (worth noting: thanks to a tipster, we pointed out a similarity to a Yale Sex Column, though we remained undecided on w... MORE »

We got a serious heads up from an OTR tipster about an alleged plagiarism scandal brewing at the Daily. Check out what the tipster wrote to us:

"All the furor on campus this week over Lara Levi's explicit sex column could be for nothing if it turns out the 'Just the Tip' column in the Tufts Daily

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