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...officials in order to publicly try students accused of breaching the Honor Code. The frighteningly mysterious and over-reaching Administrative Board at Harvard is outdated and in dire need of reform. Although it mostly issues slaps on the wrist to Harvard freshmen caught drinking alcohol in the Yard, the Ad Board is actually charged with deliberating on almost all of the cases of student misconduct. However, it seems extraordinarily inconsistent that the same Board should deliberate on a case of a tactless but well-meaning beer-guzzling freshman and on a dishonest student charged with fabricating lab results. Simple discipline...
...Before the Ad Board takes a step as rash as disciplining a student for behavior outside her academic and extracurricular life at Harvard, it must make explicit the instances in which students are acting in their capacity as Harvard students and the instances in which they are not. Until the Ad Board defines such parameters, it has no jurisdiction over Viswanathan’s punishment, which should remain in the legal sphere. Even if she is found to have intentionally plagiarized passages from other novels, that offense, though certainly reprehensible, warrants punishment only from those whom she has offended?...
...letting the influence (if not the words) of other writers seep into her own prose, Viswanathan overstepped her bounds. Let us hope that the Ad Board does not overstep...
...aspects of the Opal Mehta controversy, and one of the most divisive, is the possibility of disciplinary action against its author, Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, by the Administrative Board of the College. Had her work been submitted for course credit, there would be no question that the Ad Board should act, whether or not the offense was intentional. But the current situation raises important questions about the distinction between a student’s academic career and personal life, and what the limits of the College’s disciplinary jurisdiction ought to be. The Ad Board does...
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