Duke Senior’s Commencement Speech Appears to Plagiarize 2014 Address by Harvard Student

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She was a reporter for the school paper. Paper is now investigating whether articles were plagiarized.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the justification is almost as bad as the original offense here. To claim that you didn't intentionally plagiarize because the passages in question were provided by someone else shows a complete failure to understand the concept. I wonder how much original work she did as a student? And her apology is half-*ssed - this is not an "oversight," it is stealing someone else's work.

She hired a PR firm to manage this crisis., LOL....

How rich is the family?

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Anonymous wrote:Did they say how anyone made the connection?

I bet there were people there who also were at the Harvard commencement in 2014...grad students who went to Harvard undergrad, faculty who were affiliated w/harvard at the time, siblings who attended Harvard (or their parents), etc.

Also, Sarah Abushaar went on to do a lot of other public speaking and a lot of people have seen her commencement speech online or heard her tell her story in other speeches. Not that hard to draw a connection.

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Does anybody else think both speeches sound meandering and boring?

[Anonymous]

Next year's commencement speech will be titled "This is Water".

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Anonymous wrote:Did they say how anyone made the connection?

The original speech had 3 million views on youtube even before this. I'm sure someone there who viewed it before made the connection immediately in their head.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the justification is almost as bad as the original offense here. To claim that you didn't intentionally plagiarize because the passages in question were provided by someone else shows a complete failure to understand the concept. I wonder how much original work she did as a student? And her apology is half-*ssed - this is not an "oversight," it is stealing someone else's work.

She hired a PR firm to manage this crisis., LOL....

How rich is the family?

Extremely rich, based on the accent.

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Anonymous wrote:Next year's commencement speech will be titled "This is Water".

The best commencement speech ever by the late David Foster Wallace!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the justification is almost as bad as the original offense here. To claim that you didn't intentionally plagiarize because the passages in question were provided by someone else shows a complete failure to understand the concept. I wonder how much original work she did as a student? And her apology is half-*ssed - this is not an "oversight," it is stealing someone else's work.

She hired a PR firm to manage this crisis., LOL....

I thought she was a poor first-generation student from Pakistan?

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Anonymous wrote:How embarrassing. With the capability of the internet and social media warriors, you better believe that every horrible word I'd write for a speech would come from my own brain.

This will be her google legacy forever now. What a waste.

According to Duke website, she is applying to be a Rhodes scholar.

Wow, just wow. Another Rhodes fraud.

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Anonymous wrote:Next year's commencement speech will be titled "This is Water".

Maybe "This is Liquid" after a quick going over with a thesaurus.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody else think both speeches sound meandering and boring?

Aren’t all commencement speeches meandering and boring?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody else think both speeches sound meandering and boring?

A kid at TJ gave one at the senior graduation in 2018, which was hilarious. Best part of the evening.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they say how anyone made the connection?

That noise you hear is the sound of university presidents around the country running to put commencement speech drafts into the plagarism dectecting software machine.

Why wasn't this done in the first instance? I'm sure she had to turn her speech in to be "approved" before the day of graduation.

[Anonymous]

It’s a sad state of things when an administrator would have to think of running a plagiarism check on the college grad speaker.