Strong fire brigade forces are on the scene and aerial support has been requested to help contain the fire Read more: Greece fires Silence comes as med school under fire for ‘shocking’ academic decline under DEI and inclusion administrator is facing allegations of plagiarism – but neither she nor her employer the University of California at Los Angeles the leader of the Cultural North Star program at the UCLA School of Medicine and UCLA did not answer multiple requests for comment from The College Fix since a recent investigation alleged she plagiarized large portions of her doctoral dissertation Perry runs the Cultural North Star program which works to “build and maintain an inclusive … culture” within the UCLA School of Medicine She also holds a position on the medical school’s Justice UCLA’s and Perry’s silence comes as the med school faces scorching criticism after whistleblowers sounded the alarm that the school is admitting underqualified racial minorities under DEI rubrics and “a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified.” she copied a nearly 1,000-word passage from another paper without citing the authors’ work anywhere The investigation found other cases when Perry’s paper did include citations but those came from passages she used from other authors’ papers without citing them A side-by-side comparison of her dissertation with another paper written by sociology Professors Adalberto Aguirre and Ruben Martinez shows Perry allegedly plagiarized a lengthy paragraph changing only one word from “types” to “examples,” without quotation marks or a citation of the authors the investigation alleges Perry’s paper “largely copied unquoted and unattributed” other scholars’ works Since the release of the investigation in mid-April neither UCLA nor Perry has publicly addressed the allegations They did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Fix by email and phone in recent weeks The Fix could not find any responses to the allegations from UCLA or Perry in other sources or social media Perry’s profile still appears on the university website and her LinkedIn page states she currently is working in the role UCLA honored her on its Facebook and X pages in March for “prioritiz[ing] … empathy and radical listening to achieve her success as an educator and a leader.” MORE: Columbia med DEI chief plagiarized from Wikipedia, other scholars: complaint University of Virginia spokesperson Brian Coy said UVA is investigating the plagiarism allegations “The university takes concerns about research integrity seriously,” Coy said in a statement to The Jefferson Council a UVA alumni group that advocates for free speech and intellectual diversity “We are aware of these allegations from 2014 and we are initiating an investigation according to our process While federal student privacy laws prohibit us from commenting on any specific case the university does have the ability to revoke degrees in cases where plagiarism or other qualifying forms of misconduct are identified and proven,” Coy stated UVA media relations did not respond to two emails this week from The Fix asking for an update on the investigation Recent months have witnessed a spate of high-profile plagiarism allegations, including against former Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who later resigned director of external relations for the James G “It is revealing that the plagiarism cases are concentrated in faux disciplines where saying the right things vastly outweighs the traditional rules of scholarship.” The center advocates for increased diversity of thought and open debate in higher education a philosophy professor and director of The Honesty Project at Wake Forest University pointed to factors such as “pressure to publish quickly” and “simple intellectual laziness and sloppiness” as contributors to plagiarism among academics Despite the number of recent high-profile allegations it is not clear if plagiarism is on the rise Miller told The Fix in a recent email that “we don’t really have a sense of how common” plagiarism is Even the recent high-profile cases still number only in the dozens which is a small number compared to the “tens of thousands of university professors.” MORE: Watchdog files accreditation complaint against Harvard over plagiarism scandal Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" but was it the person being accused rather than the violation itself that brought about her downfall Claudine Gay’s days as Harvard president may well have been numbered from the moment she appeared to equivocate on whether theoretical calls for violence against Jewish people violated Harvard’s rules while testifying before Congress last month But it was allegations of plagiarism that ultimately led to her resignation on Wednesday Read moreAccording to the Harvard board a school subcommittee and independent panel charged with investigating the plagiarism allegations against Gay found “a few instances of inadequate citation” but “no violation of Harvard’s standard for research misconduct”; Gay was said to be “proactively requesting” four corrections a top administrator accused of being a chronic cut-and-paster is a bad look for the nation’s foremost institution of higher education “I used to call plagiarism the oldest profession,” says Barbara Glatt a pioneering forensic plagiarism investigator who is regularly called upon to consult on high-profile cases within the academy and in publishing It can be direct (copying something word for word without attribution) mosaic (changing some words while copying others) or even an honest mistake (an error of omission or execution) – all things Gay was accused to have done even as she continues to stand by her scholarship Academic writing isn’t a breezy process that makes for easy reading – especially in college, where the rules often come down to a professor’s style preference (MLA v Chicago v AP v APA) It’s no wonder so many fall into the plagiarism trap of their own making And while Gay more than anyone should have known better it seems unfair that she should be the one to take the fall when her errors were missed by the institutions that published her – not least the Harvard PhD committee that awarded her the Toppan prize for the best political science dissertation in 1998 Claudine Gay was Harvard’s first Black president in 387 years Photograph: Steven Senne/APNot even Harvard’s own board appears to have done as thorough a vetting of Gay’s bibliography before making her the college’s first Black president in 387 years or before forcing her demotion after six months on the job “They had a month and a half to get ahead of this scandal,” says Jonathan Bailey a journalist and plagiarism consultant who began hearing of efforts to investigate Gay for plagiarism after her ignominious appearance on the Hill “I also feel pretty confident that if they had started from the word go made it a transparent process and highlighted the details Read moreIt was through AI that the inconsistencies in Gay’s scholarship were found Gay credits a source in the wrong sentence she borrows language that even those who were ostensibly plagiarized accept as common phrasing within their field of study “I am not at all concerned about the passages,” said the political science professor David Canon whose work the Washington Free Beacon accused Gay of plagiarizing “This isn’t even close to an example of academic plagiarism.” In the acknowledgments section of her political science dissertation who “reminded me of the importance of getting the data right and following where they lead without fear or favor” who “drove me harder than I sometimes wanted to be driven” There’s a kind of continuum between originality and complete copying and language and culture lies somewhere in the middleSusan BlumEven with the best plagiarism-ferreting tools The offending passages in Gay’s dissertation acknowledgments could be charitably interpreted as intertextual references for a knowing audience “If you look at the allegations,” says Bailey “they include examples that are actually worrisome and raise serious issues But they also include a lot of examples that are weak and meaningless.” It’s an escalating game of cops and robbers that only figures to ratchet the already thick tension in the classroom. “I don’t believe in churning everything through turnitin.com because that’s a mechanical way of doing things,” says Susan Blum a professor of linguistic anthropology at Notre Dame explores the evolution of plagiarism in college She takes exception to what she calls “plagiarism fundamentalism” the idea that every thought should be completely original – which runs counter to a human nature to mimic “We have these things called mirror neurons which allow us to feel what other people are doing while they’re doing them,” says Blum “There’s a kind of continuum between originality and complete copying and language and culture lies somewhere in the middle.” the Trump White House called the allegations a “false attack”.) Read more“If Gay had gotten caught as an undergrad maybe she fails a course and has a hard start to her career,” Bailey says serve a small suspension and earn an article on a site like Retraction Watch But once you get to the top of a school like Harvard it’s almost like the script flips and suddenly plagiarism is very strictly enforced it seems that how plagiarism is enforced has more to do with the person being accused than the violation that was committed “I don’t think we can actually divorce the political from plagiarism partly because it’s often the case that scrutiny is applied to some people in some moments and not others in other moments,” Blum says “This case has a number of tragic and angering dimensions Whether it should rise to the level of forcing her resignation Community Safety Department Director To Resign Amid Tension With Cambridge Police Department From Lab to Startup: Harvard’s Office of Technology Development Paves the Way for Research Commercialization People’s Forum on Graduation Readiness Held After Vote to Eliminate MCAS 8 Takeaways From Harvard’s Task Force Reports Growing plagiarism allegations plagued the final weeks of former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s tenure, setting the stage for her resignation Tuesday afternoon The allegations — many of which are individually minor but span Gay’s entire academic career — cast scrutiny on her scholarship Many within and without the University have argued that she ought to be held to the same standard as Harvard’s own students and faculty and called for her resignation Though Gay initially signaled that she would try to weather the charges of plagiarism at first defending her scholarship and then making a series of corrections the steady stream of new allegations — which continued to roll in during the final days of her presidency — only added to doubts about Gay’s fitness to effectively lead Harvard The Washington Free Beacon — a conservative-leaning outlet which has previously covered plagiarism accusations against Gay — reported Monday that an anonymous professor from outside Harvard filed an expanded complaint alleging six additional unreported instances where Gay allegedly lifted material from other scholars The professor had previously filed a complaint to Harvard’s Research Integrity Officer on Dec 19 alleging more than 40 instances of plagiarism many of which had already been reported by the Free Beacon The new claims involve Gay’s 1997 Harvard dissertation and one previously unaddressed academic article — “The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California,” published in 2001 by the Public Policy Institute of California — in which Gay used a description of the Voting Rights Act which closely mirrored a description in a 1999 book by David T a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin told the Free Beacon that he is “not at all concerned about the passages.” “This isn’t even close to an example of academic plagiarism,” he said Swain declined to comment on the latest allegations Gay first faced allegations of plagiarism in mid-December after reports in the Free Beacon and Substack claimed she plagiarized portions of her 1997 Ph.D dissertation and three other academic works The allegations came shortly after Gay’s controversial testimony during a congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses, which sparked calls for her resignation from members of Congress Gay’s presidency survived the immediate aftermath of the disastrous testimony with the unanimous backing of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — but the plagiarism allegations persisted the Corporation announced that though instances of improper citations had been identified in Gay’s scholarship they did not violate Harvard’s standards for research misconduct After the initial allegations, Gay requested four corrections in two articles. On Dec. 20, as plagiarism allegations continued to build up, the University announced Gay would make three additional corrections to her 1997 doctoral dissertation Two scholars from whom Gay was accused of lifting additional material on Monday both told The Crimson in December that they did not consider Gay’s use of their work plagiarism Gilliam — the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro — wrote that he is “saddened” by Gay’s departure Claudine Gay to be an active and contributory scholar for many years,” he wrote King — a Harvard professor who served as Gay’s dissertation adviser – previously defended the integrity of Gay’s work saying that her dissertation “met the highest levels of academic integrity,” in a Dec would you plagiarize your professor’s work and expect to get away with it?” he wrote King did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest allegations the Harvard Corporation briefly acknowledged accusations against Gay highlighting the “extraordinary contributions” she has made as a scholar In her own letter announcing her resignation Tuesday Gay acknowledged the swirling questions about her academic work “It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am,” Gay wrote —Staff writer Sally E. 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FILE - Harvard President Claudine Gay speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill Harvard University has shed fresh light on the ongoing investigation into plagiarism accusations against former president Claudine Gay including that an independent body recommended a broader review after substantiating some of the complaints In a letter Friday to a congressional committee Harvard said it learned of the plagiarism allegations against its first Black female president on Oct The school reached out to several authors whom Gay is accused of plagiarizing and none objected to her language Harvard then appointed the independent body which focused on two of Gay’s articles published in 2012 and 2017 It concluded they “are both sophisticated and original,” and found “virtually no evidence of intentional claiming of findings” that were not her own concluded that nine of 25 allegations found by the Post were “of principal concern” and featured “paraphrased or reproduced the language of others without quotation marks and without sufficient and clear crediting of sources.” It also found one instance where “fragments of duplicative language and paraphrasing” by Gay could be interpreted as her taking credit for another academic’s work though there isn’t any evidence that was her aim written by Gay during her first year in graduate school contained “identical language to that previously published by others.” Those findings prompted a broader review of her work by a Harvard subcommittee which eventually led Gay to make corrections to the 2012 article as well as a 2001 article that surfaced in the broader review The subcommittee presented its findings Dec concluding that Gay’s “conduct was not reckless nor intentional and The House committee announced days later that it would investigate the policies and disciplinary procedures at Harvard Practical insights from and foracademics and university staff Everything you need for each stepof your study abroad journey she mentioned but minimised the allegations and it would be absurd if academics – including university presidents – were not held to the same standards as students who sometimes have no more than 30 minutes to assess a 2,000-plus-word essay might be unable to conduct scrupulous checks beyond what software such as Turnitin can provide “Using violent trophy imagery against a Black woman tells you this was never about plagiarism but reestablishing white supremacy in academia,” she tweeted And social media is currently full of claims that plagiarism is a Western construct or even a tool of white supremacy Some of this is just a knee-jerk response to a bitter case but I anticipate hearing such arguments regularly recur and the practice can even sometimes be encouraged It would not be difficult to relativise plagiarism and academic misconduct practically out of existence on the grounds that stringently enforcing existing standards amounts to an imposition of Western values But this would make into a cultural phenomenon what could just as plausibly be seen as a clash between the values of democratic and authoritarian societies In a powerful article an ethnographer of Eurasian governance processes has argued that taking a “decolonial” approach to academic standards risks relegating scholarship below government-mandated agendas of social harmony and economic development narrowing the space for pluralist global knowledge production But an emphasis on avoiding plagiarism and undertaking critical thinking serves as a corrective to academic cultures based upon rote learning It liberates students and academics to explore beyond existing orthodoxies And while those students and academics might not always welcome the responsibility to construct their own arguments and conclusions is surely preferable to pandering to academic cultures where the simplest and safest approach is simply to ape the work of those with power Whatever the rights and wrongs of Gay’s own behaviour and treatment enhancing everyone’s ability to think for themselves about such issues is surely a primary task of higher education Ian Pace is professor of music, culture and society and university adviser – interdisciplinarity at City, University of London and a co-founder of City Academics for Academic Freedom and the London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom Already registered or a current subscriber narrow and toothless provisions are failing to promote the safety and well-being of all university community members Copying others’ work is theft and corrupts the literature Concern for culprits’ welfare should not preclude punishment Teaching students how to best use ChatGPT and other tools will be core to universities’ future The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists’ misunderstanding of what higher education is all about Concerns framework programme’s budget could be redirected to back projects with military uses ‘threatens to undermine its core purpose’ Growing spending on research and development in Global South leading to more papers but increased scrutiny needed to identify misconduct China’s Double First-Class project appears to be paying off as the country’s institutions continue to lead the rankings Why have similar schemes elsewhere struggled to reap rewards and can China keep advancing despite economic slowdown and an ageing population? Helen Packer reports National security U-turn ‘cutting Australia off from knowledge creation frontier’ just as US turns its back on collaboration Subscribe today to receive unlimited news and analyses commentary from the sharpest minds in international academia our influential university rankings analysis and the latest insights from our World Summit series Before Joe Biden was vice president during the Barack Obama administration and before he bowed out of the 2008 presidential race the longtime senator from Delaware unsuccessfully ran for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination Incidents of plagiarism both on the campaign trail and during his time at the Syracuse University College of Law became some of the final issues that dogged Biden before he ultimately suspended his floundering campaign Read more: Joe Biden's long history in public life could come back to haunt him if he decides to run for president Biden lifted portions of a speech by United Kingdom Labour MP and Margaret Thatcher challenger Neil Kinnock New York Times reporter Maureen Dowd reported on the fiasco in September 1987 while also saying the same line about her education and lineage Biden would later acknowledge that he in fact did have relatives who attended college directly contrasting the Kinnock lines. Biden's staffers were defensive about the allegations of blatant plagiarism Biden dropped out of the race by the end of the month. According to another 1987 article in The Times Biden acknowledged plagiarizing a law review journal for a paper during law school and asked school administrators not to be expelled But Biden also said he made a mistake in the citation process "My intent was not to deceive anyone,'' Biden wrote at the time Biden dismissed the distribution of the video by other campaigns as dirty politics Dukakis — who would go on to win the nomination but lose the general election to the late-President George HW Bush — ultimately fired his political director Paul Tully and campaign manager John Sasso over the ad Biden reiterated that he was wrong, but did not deliberately intend to plagiarize while in law school. "I was wrong, but I was not malevolent in any way,'' he said. ''I did not intentionally move to mislead anybody. And I didn't. To this day I didn't." ''When I was at Syracuse,'' Biden added, ''I was married, I was in law school, I wore sports coats. You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am. I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.'' President Donald Trump makes a major sports announcement. The announcement comes amid reports Washington, D.C. will host the 2027 NFL Draft. WATCHLawmakers scholars slam Harvard for keeping president despite Jewish genocide testimonyby JACKSON WALKER | The National Desk leading some to question her capabilities as the leader of one of the country’s most prestigious institutions who questioned Gay at last week's congressional hearing released a lengthy statement condemning Harvard's decision to keep Gay in her role Stefanik in expressing outrage over the move on social media has reached a "moment of reckoning" for higher education "I will address the path forward in a speech on the House Floor this evening," Rep Vernon Jones also blasted the school for allegedly valuing its diversity equity and inclusion efforts over its support of Jewish students “@Harvard decided not to fire Claudine Gray for the same reason they decided to hire Claudine Gay because she’s Black,” Joneswrote they could have fired her for the right reason; not protecting Jewish students on campus and for making a fool of herself during the congressional hearings She has just made it harder for another Black to ‘ever’ become President of @Harvardfor years to come.” also took to social media to slam Harvard for the decision to keep Gay aboard as president Carol Swain accused Harvard’s governing body of lacking the courage to make the correct decision “The Harvard Corporation did not have the cojones to own and remedy their mistakes regarding Dr. Gay,” Dr.Swainsaid “Despite the evidence of plagiarism throughout her career she will remain at the helm of the University Ambassador to Germany and Harvard alum Richard Grenell said he believes Gay enjoys special privileges due to her race “Imagine if a straight white male was the Harvard President and got caught plagiarizing their dissertation,” Grenell said “The Harvard Board lowering their standards is a real scandal.” Complete your personal information for a more tailored experience for the best life sciences journalism in the industry By Andrew Joseph and Adam MarcusSept Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, one of the country’s top health care policy scholars, has resigned from his faculty position at Dartmouth College, after an investigation by the school concluded that he had committed research misconduct “I am saddened to say that I am resigning from Dartmouth,” Welch wrote in an email to colleagues Thursday “I feel that I can no longer participate in the research misconduct process against me — as I fear my participation only serves to validate it.” STAT and Retraction Watch reported last month that an internal Dartmouth investigation found that Welch plagiarized material from a Dartmouth colleague and a researcher at another institution for a 2016 paper published by the New England Journal of Medicine The paper concerned how breast cancer screening led to the overdiagnosis of tumors and unnecessary treatments The investigation found that Welch “engaged in research misconduct results or words of Complainants without giving them appropriate credit …” Welch told STAT and Retraction Watch for the report last month that the paper was a “natural progression” of his research and that “the underlying data are publicly available — all the analyses an all the writing in the article are my co-authors’ and mine.” He added that the dispute centered on “the origin of the idea — not about the validity of the work.” Welch wrote that the dean of Dartmouth’s medical school had proposed that Welch contact the journal to revise the authorship of his paper by listing the complainant as first author and that Welch could stay employed by the institution but not be allowed to teach “I cannot in good conscience accept the demand that I make the complainant an author — much less the demand that I make him the first author,” he wrote “Doing so requires that I falsely attest that he meets the requirements of authorship: namely that he materially participated in the work and is able to defend it Much as I have enjoyed working at Dartmouth I am not willing to falsely attest to anything simply to stay here the demand that I no longer teach subverts the very reason I came to work at Dartmouth.” Welch was a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and also held positions at the medical school Welch wrote that he had respected the confidential nature of the investigation for nearly two years “and never wanted it to become public But that changed when the complainant chose to release confidential documents from the investigation to STAT in mid-August he argued that Dartmouth’s verdict in the case was at odds with the conclusions of the New England Journal of Medicine and the U.S agreed that his actions did not rise to the level of “idea plagiarism” or research misconduct but rather were a dispute over credit Welch acknowledged being intrigued by his colleague Samir Soneji’s data which he first saw in 2015 at a seminar Soneji was giving and noticed what he says were several errors Welch said that he communicated with Soneji about trying to improve the analysis Welch said he fixed the errors and made his own figure with the corrected data — a figure that found its way into the NEJM article it’s [sic] biggest influence was simply because I realized it contained errors That is what drove me to look directly at the data myself,” he wrote Welch said Dartmouth got hung up on the similarity of the NEJM figure with Soneji’s rather than looking at the data themselves And he dismissed the notion that the information was novel “It was the product of ideas and methods I have been using for decades — ideas and methods that are the result the influences that many others have had on my career,” he wrote Welch concluded the email by telling his colleagues I have been blessed to be able to work with the many fine staff It has been an honor to work with all of you.” Welch is a prominent scholar and author whose work focuses on unnecessary medical screenings and interventions that can drive up health care costs and harm patients Soneji declined to comment on the resignation Soneji has filed a grievance with Dartmouth in which he claims to have been the victim of retaliation for his complaint against Welch The grievance alleges that he felt pressured to consider entering into mediation with Welch — presumably putting a halt to the investigation And he implies in the grievance that the 10 percent salary bump he received when he was promoted earlier this year was less than it should have been and may have been an effort to penalize him for speaking out against his renowned colleague Neither Welch nor Dartmouth immediately responded to requests for comment Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch contributed reporting. This story is a collaboration between STAT and Retraction Watch You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45 Adam covers scientific publishing and retractions Policy research To submit a correction request, please visit our Contact Us page Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine British singer ‘neither deliberately nor subconsciously’ copied a phrase from song by Sami Chokri Ed Sheeran has called for an end to “baseless claims” of plagiarism after winning a high court battle over whether he copied another artist’s track for his hit single Shape of You the most streamed song in Spotify’s history Snow Patrol’s John McDaid and producer Steve McCutcheon faced accusations that they had ripped off the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue Sheeran – one of world’s biggest musicians who has maintained a firm grip over pop for close to a decade with an array of chart topping hits – took the stand to defend himself against allegations that he had a habit of copying the work of other artists without giving them due credit he was vindicated after Mr Justice Zacaroli concluded that Sheeran “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied a phrase from Oh Why The judge said that while there were “similarities” between the one-bar phrase that repeats the words “Oh why” in Chokri’s song and the repetition of “Oh I” in Sheeran’s such similarities are “only a starting point” for a copyright infringement claim and there are also “significant differences” between the phrases in the songs In a video on Instagram shared with his 37.7 million followers after the ruing Sheeran condemned a growing culture of unwarranted copyright claims “Claims like this are way too common now and have become a culture where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court and it’s really damaging to the songwriting industry,” he said “There are only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music and coincidences are bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released a day on Spotify and there are only 12 notes that are available.” The singer said he did not want to “take anything away from the pain and hurt suffered from both sides of this case but I just want to say I’m not an entity “Lawsuits are not a pleasant experience and I hope with this ruling it means in the future baseless claims like this can be avoided A further joint statement with co-writers McDaid and McCutcheon emphasised that all three respected and acknowledged the music of their influences and collaborators no matter “how successful something appears to be” They said the case had come at a cost to “creativity” and their mental health There is an impact on both us and the wider circle of songwriters everywhere.” a grime artist who performs under the name Sami Switch and his co-writer Ross O’Donoghue had claimed the “Oh I” hook in Shape of You was “strikingly similar” to the “Oh why” refrain in their track with Sheeran and his co-writers asking the high court to declare they had not infringed Chokri and O’Donoghue’s copyright Sheeran also said his reputation had been sullied by the allegations Chokri and O’Donoghue issued their own claim for “copyright infringement damages and an account of profits in relation to the alleged infringement” Both parties anticipated costs in the region of £3m between them The judge dismissed Chokri’s counterclaim on Wednesday and granted a declaration to Sheeran and his co-writers that they had not infringed the copyright in Oh Why the justification for declaratory relief was only increased by the fact that although the case only relates to Shape [of You] it was pursued against him on a basis – which I reject – that he is a ‘magpie’ who habitually deliberately copies and conceals the work of other songwriters.” Sheeran frequently burst into song and hummed musical scales and melodies from Blackstreet’s No Diggity and Nina Simone’s classic Feeling Good to demonstrate how common the melody that Shape of You uses is He said it uses “a basic minor pentatonic pattern” which is “entirely commonplace” The singer has already given the writers behind TLC’s 90s hit No Scrubs a credit on Shape of You after comparisons were made between the two songs said the legal battle had been “deeply traumatising” arguing the case should never have reached trial alleged that Sheeran’s lawyers brought the legal proceedings because PRS for Music – the industry body that collects and distributes royalties – had “frozen” any royalties from the performances or broadcasts of Shape of You He said the case was not about “how famous the claimants are it boils down to that the defendants are not … Shaggy they would have been treated in a very different way” was targeted with a “concerted plan” by Chokri’s former management to secure his interest in the singer with Oh Why being sent to those around the star including the late SBTV founder Jamal Edwards Chokri told the trial he felt “robbed” by the music star and was left shocked when he first heard Shape Of You on the radio But the judge said on Wednesday that the evidence “provides no more than a speculative foundation” for Sheeran having heard Oh Why which Sheeran said he had originally envisaged being performed by Rihanna or Little Mix becoming the bestselling song of 2017 in the UK does this person have any original thoughts?' Academics whose work was stolen by a top diversity and inclusion official at the UCLA School of Medicine say the scale of plagiarism is both “unheard of” and “unbelievable,” raising questions about how the California university’s failure to take action An investigation by The Daily Wire and City Journal found that Natalie J who leads a DEI program at the medical school and is tasked with shaping the school’s “culture,” had stolen thousands of words without attribution for a doctoral thesis on the benefits of DEI On April 12, The Daily Wire and City Journal provided the UCLA School of Medicine with a 14-page document containing overwhelming evidence of academic malfeasance. The school has not responded and there is no indication that it has taken any action, with Perry still listed on its website Perry stole extensively from at least 10 different papers at least four of whose authors she never even mentioned The Daily Wire and City Journal shared passages she stole from each author with those victims an Arizona State University business school professor from whom Perry stole 1,000 continuous words It’s unbelievable,” he said after viewing evidence that pages 32 to 35 of Perry’s dissertation are virtually identical to a paper by Kinicki and two other authors does this person have any original thoughts?” “If she’s supposed to be the carrier of the culture and she steals people’s work And then for the institution to not want to respond That’s the wrong kind of culture,” Kinicki said adding that universities lose all value if their degrees and hiring processes do not amount to an assurance that the person is qualified which granted Perry a doctorate in education based on the plagiarized dissertation and famously has a strict “honor code” shaped by the ideas of founder Thomas Jefferson said it would investigate the claims after it was sent the same information shared with UCLA “We are initiating an investigation according to our process,” said university spokesman Brian Coy who added that “the University does have the ability to revoke degrees in cases where plagiarism or other qualifying forms of misconduct are identified and proven.” Though the university’s Honor Committee said it is only able to accept reports on alleged violations within two years of when they occurred — Perry’s paper was published in 2014 — Research Integrity Officer David J UVA cheated them by not enforcing standards And then students trust that the person is qualified because they’re at UCLA but they’re cheating the students,” Kinicki said “If I was sitting on a tribunal I’d say revoke her PhD,” he said that’s an abdication of their responsibility.” Perry also stole from Neal Schmitt a professor of organizational psychology at Michigan State University who is an expert on “personnel and selection and academic admissions.” “It appears to be plagiarism to me,” he told The Daily Wire after reviewing a side-by-side of his paper and hers I do not believe the person should continue to hold an administrative role at UCLA.” Many of the academics she stole from were left-wing ideologues writing about race and have declined to publicly call out Perry raising questions about whether it is acceptable in their field “If those people who are victims won’t speak up or say something Perry stole four paragraphs from racial scholar Rubén Martinez but Martinez declined to comment on the findings “Best approach is to bring it to the attention of her supervisor (is it a Dean?) and that person can then contact us,” Martinez said is the editor of the journal Radical Pedagogy and a professor at the University of California Riverside said he would respond in the next few days Among the other victims who have stayed silent is Sylvia Hurtado a professor at Perry’s own institution of UCLA her credentials are nominally in the field of education who manages an unofficial Bruin Alumni Group said he wrote to Perry asking for an explanation He told The Daily Wire that the failure of other academics to speak up is “disheartening.” “As the founder of a UCLA alumni network and a proud alumnus especially as it involves a faculty member transparent steps to investigate and address these claims to restore and uphold the high ethical standards expected at UCLA.” high-profile academics have raised concerns about the competence of the people behind UCLA’s DEI programs which have dangerously veered the school away from scientific rigor After the school required all first-year medical students to read an essay that stated concern about obesity is “violence on… Black said that the course was promoting “dangerous misinformation” and that the medical school had substituted “Marxist ideology” for medicine Flier said that anyone involved in approving the course was unqualified for medicine should “change its leadership” to remove anyone who supported it added that the administration should remember its commitment to the principles espoused by legendary basketball coach John Wooden: “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.” Your information could be the missing piece to an important story Submit your tip today and make a difference A Moscow court restricted internet access and freedom of movement Monday for prominent plagiarism campaigner and journalist Andrei Zayakin, independent media outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe reported was detained in Moscow on Sunday on charges of “financing extremist activities” for a 1,000 ruble ($16) donation he made to opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. The Anti-Corruption Foundation was dubbed “extremist” by the Russian authorities last year. According to the ruling by Moscow’s Basmanny district court Zayakin is prohibited from using all means of communication — including internet and written correspondence — and cannot leave his house between 8 p.m Andrei Zayakin, a colleague and a friend, is put under house arrest in Moscow. A well-published physicist, he has spent a decade uncovering hundreds of fake PhD degrees - many powerful people in Russia lost their fraudulent degrees thanks to him. Now he is banned to use internet. pic.twitter.com/RRJBF0EmAl Zayakin is a co-founder of “Dissernet,” an online scientific network that works to expose plagiarism in Ph.D theses issued by Russia’s higher education institutions and scientific articles published in the country. Volunteers for Dissernet have found traces of plagiarism in the scientific works of many top officials parliamentary deputies and top security officers. 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In sharp contrast to his remarkably chill real-life response It's only later, during a trip down the radio dial, that the video uncovers similarities in Petty's own songs with earlier hits by the likes of Blue Oyster Cult, Chris Isaak and Talking Heads A department of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) said that a former faculty member and her advisee have already reached a “settlement” after the former’s apology letter earned criticism from the online community The university’s Department of English Language and Literature on Monday shocked Filipinos when it posted a letter from Riceli Mendoza apologizing to an AB English graduate for plagiarizing the latter’s thesis posted on the department’s Facebook page on May 6 for the emotional pain that I have caused you and your family I am very sorry to publish your thesis in my name I am truly sorry that I failed to recognize you as the author and the owner of the published paper/article I honestly acknowledge my fault and rest assured that this may never happen again in the history of academic endeavor a former faculty member of the Department of English Language and Literature The comments section of the post was turned off unlike other posts on the department’s Facebook page The apology letter has earned over 24,000 likes and reactions and 15,000 shares on the platform Some Filipinos expressed their opinions on the issue on their respective Facebook accounts instead one time Director of USM’s University Quality Assurance Center is on the spotlight for claiming her students’ research as her own,” writer Karlo Antonio Galay David said on his Facebook page on Monday “The case of Jemima Atok is apparently not isolated The lack of ethics from such a high ranking administrator of the university is troubling but the poor quality of writing in this public statement is even more shocking!” he added “(Observe how the letter only admits ‘failure to recognize the author,’ there is no explicit acknowledgment of the intellectual property theft It almost sounds like she just committed a clerical error),” David said Another Facebook user said that educators should also be “held liable” if plagiarism demands a strong punishment for students who claim other work as their own “If students get heavily punished by the academe for plagiarism and theft, the more educators should be held liable, lol,” the user wrote in a post “Saw the public apology a USM professor posted for publishing her advisee’s research under her name. WTF? She’s in the academe [and] a research adviser, for that matter! How can she not know about plagiarism?! Did she actually [think] she can get away from stealing someone else’s work?” another user said the department clarified that Mendoza and the former student have already settled the matter in response to reactions to the viral apology letter “The case of publishing her advisee’s paper under her name is solely Dr and the Department has no knowledge of the matter until a complaint was filed,” it said on May 7 “The posting of the apology letter on the Department’s page is the pre-condition of the complainant to desist to which the respondent agreed,” it added we encourage the public to cease formulating their own facts because the complainant and respondent have already reached a mutually acceptable settlement,” the department said “We pray for everyone’s healing,” it concluded its comments section has been turned off as well some Facebook users who know the former student offered their sympathies following the incident “Hala, grabe naman ito,” a user wrote plagiarism is a major offense against students Merriam-Webster defines it as “an act or instance of plagiarizing” or “something plagiarized.” The dictionary defines plagiarizing as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own” or to “use (another’s production) without crediting the source.” LinkedIn said that plagiarism is an unethical academic dishonesty that “disadvantages the original author of the plagiarized work as they don’t receive proper credit for their words and ideas.” develop and fully understand their academic topic The practice hinders the learning process and has a detrimental effect on the quality of writing,” it added Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism Philippines – Why did a senator from the Philippines have to do this to a foreign blogger who calls herself the “Healthy Home Economist” The blogger called “Sarah the Healthy Home Economist” confirmed early Thursday morning that Philippine Senator Vicente Sotto III plagiarized her work in a speech against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill “Are people that hard up for something original to say?” said Sarah Pope in a Facebook post noting that Sotto never asked her for permission said she doesn’t intend to sue Sotto over this “It just feels very weird to be in the middle of the debate on a bill in the Philippines over women’s reproductive rights.” She added she’s not mad at the comedian-turned-politician – “more amused than anything with his sobbing during the speech and all.” “I do feel bad for his loss of his son I can’t imagine how incredibly difficult that would be,” Pope said referring to Sotto’s appeal to emotions in his speech against the RH bill Pope added Sotto’s actions don’t reflect on Filipino integrity in general this is the home of coconut oil!” said the blogger Sotto denied plagiarizing the Healthy Home Economist Ang kino-quote ko si Natasha Campbell-McBride,” he said referring to the doctor whom Pope originally quoted But a comparison of their speeches shows word for word similarities Pope and her followers therefore criticized Sotto’s alleged plagiarism in the blogger’s Facebook thread [View the story “Blogger, followers hit Sotto ‘plagiarism'” on Storify] Contact us by Email Meghan Markle has been hit with another "plagiarism" claim as a shop owner whose business shares the same name as her "rebrand" rips the former actress RadarOnline.com can report the Duchess of Sussex revealed her new lifestyle company name and logo and it didn't take long for her to receive massive backlash from fans Markle appears in one of her teasers for her lifestyle site launch A small business owner named Mark Kolski has spoken out after the former Hollywood actress used the same name as his clothing store. In an Instagram post, he wrote: "Wow and Hello. I want to say thank you to all the old friends who know and love our small family brand, As Ever, and also say hi to all those that have just become aware we exist. In the last 36 hours, there has been an outpouring of support and concern regarding recent events around our namesake brand. "We are aware. We are not affiliated.This venture started back in 2015 when I reworked vintage military to make our signature tanker pant for my wife, Astrid Dahl, as a side hobby. It was followed by a pink jumpsuit that quickly became a cult classic.In 2017, As Ever became official, and I started manufacturing." He continued: "There are several women and events that were instrumental in the creation of our brand. I want to thank them again. I also want to thank Robert Chauca and his family-run factory. "Without all of them, As Ever would not exist.It’s 2025. We are grateful to still be here making clothing in New York & New Jersey. We are grateful for all the customers coast to coast and world wide that have supported our venture." He concluded his message with: "We will continue As Ever, Mark Kolski #asever#asevernyc." View this post on Instagram A post shared by As Ever (@asevernyc) In an interview with The Sun, the 58-year-old admitted he was stunned after Markle's announcement as his New York-based clothing brand has had the same name for the last seven years Kolski revealed he is currently "exploring all possibilities" because he is not changing the name before he added: "I'm a very small business This new venture has the power and money of Netflix behind it I don’t think I have the behemoth of lawyers and money that are behind this." Unfortunately for the former Hollywood actress this isn't the first plagiarism accusation By entering your email and clicking Sign Up you’re agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Unfortunately for the former Hollywood actress, this isn't the first plagiarism accusation fans claimed the As Ever design was similar to the Coat of Arms of Porreres in Majorca The logo features a palm tree as a nod to the couple’s home in Montecito while the two hummingbirds – which is allegedly Prince Harry's favorite In the memoir, Spare, he revealed after his grandmother Queen Elizabeth died, a hummingbird made its way into his house – which he said wrote how he thought it might have been a sign from her Markle has yet to make a comment regarding the newest scandals surrounding her business just one day before news broke that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are allegedly headed toward a divorce the singer was spotted house-hunting on her own in Beverly Hills Tom Cruise is living up to his Top Gun image by splashing a fortune choppering his new female “best pal” around Britain – after he “fell in love” with the way she's overcome her disability Opt-out of personalized ads A DIVISION OF MYSTIFY ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK INC Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service People may receive compensation for some links to products and services Offers may be subject to change without notice This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.