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...blind trust. Every case should in the end be held to the scrutiny of human judgment. Overall, however, we welcome the College’s attempt to modernize this system, which will hopefully discourage plagiarism and begin to a curb a disturbing trend in American higher education. Intellectual theft is a serious breach of trust that shows deplorable contempt for the opportunities and advantages offered by a good education. Used sensibly, TurnItIn.com could persuade students—even if their own consciences can’t—that plagiarism is a bad idea...
...inherent power of their film did not dawn on Ewing and Grady until they began working with their footage in the cutting room. In a sense, Jesus Camp is a record of a crime--the theft of childhood by possibly well-intended but narrowly ideological adults. Its subjects, of course, don't see it that way. Fischer has said it's great publicity for her endeavors. And Ewing sees her point. "It's hard not to respect people who have deep passions," she says. Neither she nor Grady can entirely fathom why the Evangelicals feel so profoundly threatened...
...Whether it was what inspired her to write it is tough to know or not—in a technical sense it’s not actual plagiarism, but there is certainly an element of misrepresentation and perhaps a theft of idea or concept,” Silverman said...
...University has learned that it wasn’t the only victim of theft whose artwork ended up at an estate auction earlier this month. Several other objects left by the late New York art collector William M.V. Kingsland—including a bust by surrealist painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti—have been confirmed stolen, The New York Times reported yesterday...
There is, of course, a worry about security. Wouldn’t items left in a cubicle in the Science Center, for example, be stolen? The answer, I hope, is no. Theft at Harvard is generally low, but if theft were a concern, these cubicles or lockers could be locked in the way they are at the MAC or at Hemenway...