Remember who else committed plagerism in a speech? Duke University this time.
At least it did not start with "Four score and seven years ago.."

A Duke University student said she is taking “full responsibility” for parts of her commencement speech that included passages similar to those in a Harvard University graduation speech years ago, prompting a university probe.

Undergraduate commencement speaker Priya Parkash spoke to her fellow classmates at Duke’s graduation ceremony on Sunday. The following day the Duke Chronicle—the university’s student newspaper—reported that several passages of Ms. Parkash’s speech were similar to that of a Harvard speech in 2014 given by then-student Sarah Abushaar. Duke is investigating the matter, a spokesman said.

A public-relations representative for Ms. Parkash said in an interview that she incorporated ideas for passages provided by friends without researching if they had been used previously. She didn’t find out until after the speech that those passages had come from a speech given at Harvard, her spokesman said.



“I was embarrassed and confused to find out too late that some of the suggested passages were taken from a recent commencement speech at another university,” Ms. Parkash said in an earlier statement provided through the PR firm. “I take full responsibility for this oversight and I regret if this incident has in any way distracted from the accomplishments of the Duke Class of 2022.”

Michael Schoenfeld, a spokesman for Duke, said the university is aware of the allegations and has “initiated a process to understand the facts of the situation.”

“Duke University expects all students to abide by their commitment to the Duke Community Standard in everything they do as students,” he said.

Parts of Ms. Parkash’s speech were similar to passages from Harvard undergraduate speaker Ms. Abushaar’s 2014 commencement address, with references to Harvard swapped for Duke.

Ms. Abushaar didn’t respond to a request for comment.

In her speech, Ms. Parkash spoke about her experience being Pakistani and going through airport security checkpoints, wearing Duke gear as a way to prove she wasn’t a threat. Ms. Abushaar made similar comments about going through airport security as a Middle Easterner in Harvard attire.


The campus of Duke University seen from atop its chapel in Durham, N.C.
PHOTO: VEASEY CONWAY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Both speakers joked about how their respective campuses could be their own independent countries.

“We had our own version of the Statue of Liberty, the John Harvard statue; our own embassies, the Harvard clubs of Boston and London; a tax collection agency, the Harvard Alumni Association; and endowment larger than more than half the world’s countries GDPs,” Ms. Abushaar said in her 2014 speech.

In Ms. Parkash’s speech on Sunday, she said, “We are home to several consulates…we also have our own version of Christ the Redeemer, the statue of James Buchanan Duke…we also have an IRS with its surprisingly bubbly fleet of tax collectors, the Duke Alumni Association; we also have the equivalent of the Federal Reserve, DUMAC, which manages an endowment larger than the GDP of one-third of the countries in the world.”

In another passage, Ms. Parkash said, “Over the last four years, as the sole of our shoes have collected a world of experiences, we have all become this place in rather perplexing ways, each one of us internalizing pieces of people, perspectives, and the past, all of which have transformed our outlook on the world.”

In Ms. Abushaar’s speech, she said, “And running through Harvard Yard over the past four years, the skin of our feet collecting a world of experiences, we each become this place in a strange way, each of us picking up bits of people and history and ideas that changed the way we saw the world.

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So she takes full responsibility for her own plagiarism? Doesn't wanna blame it on someone else?

Amazing.

She plagiarized, was caught and now is blaming friends of hers. Typical Millenial, which even my alma mater isn't immune from. Seeing the woke-as-shit communiques that are sent out by Duke's chancellor and the alumni association, this case of plagiarism is the least of my concerns.

I'm confused. What is a commencement speech? Why does plagiarism matter? If she had done the entire Gettysburg address why would it have mattered? I thought it was a graduation speech? Is it graded or scored?

Yeah, blaming her nonexistent friends who slipped her those passages. And, "take full responsibility" is one of the most meaningless and tiresome cliches ever. Ok, you caught me, I take full responsibility, now move on please.

I fall into the who cares category. Speeches unlike books and essays are usually extremely transitory in nature. Especially a commencement address. Hell, I just went to a college graduation and couldn’t tell you anything about the students speech. She clearly took ideas from another speech and just swapped here for there and then blamed others while taking responsibility. Whatever. I also wonder what exactly the college thinks it’s going to do in its “investigation”. No crime was committed and they certainly would be on shaky ground trying to actually punish her in any meaningful way.

If I say four score and seven years ago in a speech who cares? It’s a forgettable speech. Mine, not President Lincoln’s.

She has a vagina and she's not white, so, obviously, it's someone else's fault. This means she's really brave to take full responsibility (as opposed to partial responsibility).

Clearly, this is a conspiracy of the patriarchy. Let's burn things that belong to other people.

Yo, Prius, umm, Priya! It's not spelled "D-o-o-k"!

I'll see your plagiarism and raise you this one from the Daily Mail: the idiot plagiarized her explanation for getting caught plagiarizing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...copying-article.html

Ummmm...did anyone else notice the fact that this kid, a fresh college grad, has a public relations firm doing the talking for her????

That strikes me as...curious.

Yeah, it's like the winner of a sixth grade spelling bee speaking through his lawyer.

Prius may be a valla dick torian but she doen't know shit about how search engines work. The same goes for Zoomy err Jumi...

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I fall into the who cares category. Speeches unlike books and essays are usually extremely transitory in nature. Especially a commencement address.

^^^^^^^^^^
My University had an honor code. Get caught doing this sort of thing and you are gone. She obviously felt this was acceptable behavior. It is a matter of ethics, which she clearly does not understand. It is cheating plain and simple.

Ethics. Attribution. Acknowledgements.

This bitch will enter the workforce and take credit for the work of others for her own personal gain. I HATE that. More than lazy coworkers. Or brown nosers. Or stupid people. Okay, maybe stupid people are in contention. But I absolutely hate people that will take credit for other people's work.

Bitch. I hope she fails miserably.

The internet is forever. It will not be smooth sailing. Her vagina can't save her.

Seems original thoughts are as dead as common sense.

RIP.

Maybe she is purposefully emulating the plagarist-in-chief so she can prove herself worthy of a job somewhere in his illegitimate regime.

She gave her speech on Sunday and had a PR firm lined up to represent her by Wednesday?

WTF?

I don’t know much about hiring a PR agency, but with interviewing prospective firms, a meeting or two, contract negotiation, etc., it’s got to take more than two days to set everything up.

Simply building up her resume.........

"After graduation, Parkash will pursue a career in management consulting and graduate studies in energy policy and international relations."

Yup - this Administration has a spot for her...............

Politics in an apolitical thread, gentlemen.

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Copy that. My apologies.

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Seems original thoughts are as dead as common sense.

RIP.

How many have you had over the course of your life?

I’m not trying to be rude or disrespectful. With over 7 billion people on the planet with God knows how many thoughts per person per day and unprecedented access to global archives of music, literature, history, etc, how many original thoughts are left to be had? How do we distinguish them from thoughts someone else already had?

I could say all of my thoughts are the product or sum total of all sensory perceptions I’ve had since my conception. While the particular combination of those perceptions are unique to me, the causes of those perceptions are not. The sun comes up, the sun goes down. I’m hungry, I’m tired. I go to school and learn from the same books and teachers as everyone else in my class. I read the same forum on the internet as everyone else who reads SIGforum. Can anything I think really be mine?