CHERRY HILL, N.J. – A high school student who won a lawsuit to be named sole valedictorian has admitted she did not properly attribute information in three articles and two essays she wrote for the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill.
Harvard ain’t too happy about this.
As has been noted by wiser than I, karma is a bitch.
Singled out, yeah, right. :rolleyes:
$10 bucks says she’ll sue Harvard next.
Will the victimization of this poor girl never end?
I’m just glad she ain’t sullying up my school. I hope Harvard withdraws her admission.
In other news, I remain simply amazed at the lengths that people will go to so that they or their kids can attend any Ivy or other elite school. The more I hear about how ridiculous it gets, the more I look at me and some of my friends and wonder how in blue blazes we made it here…
This is what gets me…
Just because there are no footnotes or endnotes in a newspaper article doesn’t mean that her sources couldn’t be cited. Has the girl never heard of internal citations?
She’s not being victimized; the bed she made is now begging to be slept in.
Robin
Her name is Blair too?? I’d forgotten that.
It’s been a bad month for plagarists named Blair (Hornstine and Jayson).
Even if she does manage to sue her way through college and graduate, who’s going to hire her? I certainly wouldn’t - she’d be more trouble than she’d ever be worth.
All this stink starting because she wanted to be a high school valedictorian. Like that means anything in the grand scheme of things…
Oh, no, I hope she goes to Harvard. The people who actually worked to get there will eat her alive.
GMR You said it.
What a dumb whore. Did admission to Harvard really hinge on being valedictorian? I was valedictorian of my high school, by the way! And I didn’t sue anybody! 
Plagiarism is not a “non-issue.” And someone who is valedictorian–oh, excuse me, SOLE valedictorian–shouldn’t need to be told what plagiarism is or whether it is “okay” to do in the absence of specific instructions not to commit it.
She sounds like a reeeeeeeal piece of work.
This is just great. I fear you’re right, World Eater. She probably will sue Harvard next. Then, she’ll sue the first company she applies at because she was "not aware that she had to fill out the entire thing, since she was a Harvard graduate and a sole high school valedictorian.
Nothing says “fluff” to me like a madman with nuclear weapons.
(Nelson): HA-ha!
I heard that, when asked for comment on her declining prospects, Hornstine said, “The only thing I have to fear is… fear itself.”
[sub]Tapping my nose with my forefinger[/sub]
Twickster said, “Will the victimization of this poor girl never end?”
While I realize this was a sarcastic comment, I do think she’s a victim here. Her parents, in a lame attempt to live vicariously through her, are the demons here. They have her believing that business/scholastic success, at any price, is the ultimate goal in life. She’ll probably end up an empty shell of a human being who judges everyone by their bank account. She’ll judge all life’s accomplishments by their “bottom line.” It’s actually very sad.
Are you basing that on anything? There’s nothing in either article that leads me to that conclusion.
Seems to me that suing the school was gross, although I’d note that the school made the wrong call by naming other people valedictorian - and I’m sorry, but nobody of the intelligence she claims to have should really need an ethics codebook to know if they’re plagiarizing or not. I had zero journalism training when I started writing columns for a local paper in high school and didn’t “borrow liberally” because nobody told me not to. 
You know this to be true?
If somehow she does manage to get through Harvard (can you say ANOTHER lawsuit? Or more?), who the HELL is going to hire her? She’d be WAAAAY more trouble than she’s worth.