Harvard Freshman Advising: Here's the copy machine and ...

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@xjayz

As a peer advisor, I just received the list of peer advisers from the Advising Programs Office. </p>

<p>(In later post: ) In Xiggi’s defense, the general sentiment on campus was that Kaavya was selected as a Peer Advising Fellow for this 2006-2007 academic year. It was also mentioned in The Harvard Crimson in early May that Kaavya was allegedly at our first training session.</p>

<p>However, with the new academic year (almost) in swing, the Advising Programs Office sent out the list of Peer Advising Fellows associated with each entryway so that we can plan entryway-wide in addition to dorm-wide events. I just looked over the Excel spreadsheet of approximately 190 fellows (including myself) and Kaavya is not on the list.

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<p>I have been following all the Harvard Crimson articles from the beginning, and my interest is solely in the plagiarism issue. I write for a living, and maintain a Web site that has been plagiarized more than once. So any time someone steals a work of authorship, I get outraged by that, whether the thief is a Harvard professor or a Harvard undergraduate or some student at some lesser school. </p>

<p>I appreciate xjzayz keeping us updated with the latest information, in historical perspective. Young people like xjayz are the kind of people I think about when I wonder whether or not I should take my children to the Harvard information meetings in my town. </p>

<p>Best wishes to all of this year’s students at all of the colleges in America and abroad for having a successful academic year, above reproach for plagiarism.</p>