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

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else gone down the rabbit hole of her linked in? The line in her speech about feeling pressured to over achieve (yet still go out 3 days a week), felt strange.

There is so much on her linked in, one wonders how she finds the time. I can't draw final judgment but it makes me question what these colleges are looking for in kids. It feels like kids need so much to get into top schools, but this lapse in judgment on the speech, makes me wonder what is all there?

The LinkedIn in likely full of lies and exaggerations like every rich ruthless striver. Remember the Penn girl claimed to “co-found” a non profit and her mother in law said no, she came to literally one event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else gone down the rabbit hole of her linked in? The line in her speech about feeling pressured to over achieve (yet still go out 3 days a week), felt strange.

There is so much on her linked in, one wonders how she finds the time. I can't draw final judgment but it makes me question what these colleges are looking for in kids. It feels like kids need so much to get into top schools, but this lapse in judgment on the speech, makes me wonder what is all there?

The LinkedIn in likely full of lies and exaggerations like every rich ruthless striver. Remember the Penn girl claimed to “co-found” a non profit and her mother in law said no, she came to literally one event.

You are missing tge word “striver “. Google it. It means simply hard worker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also add, the Harvard student's speech was so much better as a speech, not even addressing the plagiarism.

Duke looks pretty bad.

Yes, Duke looks really bad. Likely, they wanted to appear to be "into diversity" by picking a student speaker from a developing country while overlooking diverse American speaker candidates. In the future, they will need to see entire drafts of proposed speeches.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also add, the Harvard student's speech was so much better as a speech, not even addressing the plagiarism.

Duke looks pretty bad.

Yes, Duke looks really bad. Likely, they wanted to appear to be "into diversity" by picking a student speaker from a developing country while overlooking diverse American speaker candidates. In the future, they will need to see entire drafts of proposed speeches.

Apparently, they did see the whole speech. Round 1 was an outline, then the 50+ finalists had to present the full draft to win. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/05/11/the-duke-university-commencement-plagiarism-scandal/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else gone down the rabbit hole of her linked in? The line in her speech about feeling pressured to over achieve (yet still go out 3 days a week), felt strange.

There is so much on her linked in, one wonders how she finds the time. I can't draw final judgment but it makes me question what these colleges are looking for in kids. It feels like kids need so much to get into top schools, but this lapse in judgment on the speech, makes me wonder what is all there?

The LinkedIn in likely full of lies and exaggerations like every rich ruthless striver. Remember the Penn girl claimed to “co-found” a non profit and her mother in law said no, she came to literally one event.

You are making my point, pretty much: colleges reward the baseless striving. Broken system.

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Anonymous wrote:Question is whether Credit Suisse will revoke her offer for full time employment?

Her moral flexibility will fit in well there.

Lol
Deutsche Bank will make a better offer and give her a corner office.

UBS will put her in their anti-money laundering unit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else gone down the rabbit hole of her linked in? The line in her speech about feeling pressured to over achieve (yet still go out 3 days a week), felt strange.

There is so much on her linked in, one wonders how she finds the time. I can't draw final judgment but it makes me question what these colleges are looking for in kids. It feels like kids need so much to get into top schools, but this lapse in judgment on the speech, makes me wonder what is all there?

The LinkedIn in likely full of lies and exaggerations like every rich ruthless striver. Remember the Penn girl claimed to “co-found” a non profit and her mother in law said no, she came to literally one event.

You are missing tge word “striver “. Google it. It means simply hard worker.

^ misusing the word “striver “

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/5/11/duke-speech-appears-plagiarized/

If Joe Biden did it in 1988 during the presidential campaign, it must be ok for Duke.

perhaps a more recent example would be Melania Trump lifting from Michelle Obama.

Even better, Kamel Harris using the MLK anecdote as her own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke’s west campus is a copy of Princeton’s campus so not much of a surprise.

And they artificially wore down the steps to make it look older and more authentic. Which isn't very authentic.

[Anonymous]

It probably was another student with an axe to grind. I met ladder climbers like her and some were downright nasty enough that when I found dirt on them I sent proof of the dirt in to allow higher ups to make the call.

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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....

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

Poor Pakistanis don't go to Duke or any US university. Foreigners don't get financial aid.

[Anonymous]

Both speeches suck, hyperbolic ramblings with too many adjectives mean you are trying to hard. Even with a re-write they couldn't make the first speech any good...pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It probably was another student with an axe to grind. I met ladder climbers like her and some were downright nasty enough that when I found dirt on them I sent proof of the dirt in to allow higher ups to make the call.

Did it make you feel better? Do you still have friends?

It brings to mind that great philosopher, Sister Michael, of Derry Girls fame, who said...

"You will go far in life Jenny, but you will not be well liked"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also add, the Harvard student's speech was so much better as a speech, not even addressing the plagiarism.

Duke looks pretty bad.

Yes, Duke looks really bad. Likely, they wanted to appear to be "into diversity" by picking a student speaker from a developing country while overlooking diverse American speaker candidates. In the future, they will need to see entire drafts of proposed speeches.

Apparently, they did see the whole speech. Round 1 was an outline, then the 50+ finalists had to present the full draft to win. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/05/11/the-duke-university-commencement-plagiarism-scandal/

I'd be self harming if I had to sit through 50 draft commencement speeches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both speeches suck, hyperbolic ramblings with too many adjectives mean you are trying to hard. Even with a re-write they couldn't make the first speech any good...pathetic.

They should do away with these displays of narcissistic rambling, nobody cares, get to the diplomas and be done with it.