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

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Anonymous wrote:Who paid for her college? Duke cost of attendance is approx $80,000 a year, so that's over $300,000 for a bachelor's. Who paid for it?

She may have gotten financial aid and/or taken out loans. Not sure this is the crux of the issue.

If another rich girl stole over $300,000 in college aid and awards intended for actual low-means needy students, that actually is a very serious issue. What happens if you steal $300,000 from your job? You're taken out in handcuffs.

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https://pages.facebook.com/NixorCollege/photos/a.10153739091438945/10156384735678945/?type=3&source=48

she was on scholarship

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Anonymous wrote:https://pages.facebook.com/NixorCollege/photos/a.10153739091438945/10156384735678945/?type=3&source=48

she was on scholarship

But was it need based?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://pages.facebook.com/NixorCollege/photos/a.10153739091438945/10156384735678945/?type=3&source=48

she was on scholarship

But was it need based?

There is little to no merit aid from Duke.

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OMG, another huge scammer!

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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.

Stop your whining. Don't your know that Duke is full of pretty, well adjusted students who would never be grinds or strivers as well adjusted boosters of Duke take pains to point out regularly. That's what college is for. Besides it's the Harvard of the south. Integrity, shmtegrity......

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://pages.facebook.com/NixorCollege/photos/a.10153739091438945/10156384735678945/?type=3&source=48

she was on scholarship

But was it need based?

There is little to no merit aid from Duke.

There aren’t many commencement speakers either. Near as I see the scholarship mentioned comes in 4 varieties, only the last being need based.

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Means-based financial aid = "scholarships"

I see lower income families brag in this way constantly. You also see it on national news every year when a lower or middle income student gets into multiple Ivies, they say she or he received a "full-ride scholarship."

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She should have just told the likely truth:

Looking for inspiration, I googled commencement speeches, I liked this one and mine was inspired by it - I had no idea that constituted plagiarism or there would be a problem with it - the committee that approved it didn't alert me to any issues I assume they would have. I'm so sorry to the original speaker - imitation is the highest form of flattery.

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Duke has always had a problem with character.

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Anonymous wrote:So on brand for Duke.

As a Tar Heel, I am dying laughing. This is better than the Dookie on Jeopardy who couldn't even make it to final Jeopardy because she was in the negative -$3,000. LOL.

GDTBATH!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Means-based financial aid = "scholarships"

I see lower income families brag in this way constantly. You also see it on national news every year when a lower or middle income student gets into multiple Ivies, they say she or he received a "full-ride scholarship."

The school also frames it this way too. They label means-based awards ex. "institutional scholarship: $50,000" on annual financial aid award letters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should have just told the likely truth:

Looking for inspiration, I googled commencement speeches, I liked this one and mine was inspired by it - I had no idea that constituted plagiarism or there would be a problem with it - the committee that approved it didn't alert me to any issues I assume they would have. I'm so sorry to the original speaker - imitation is the highest form of flattery.

You expect a cheat to fess up? Darling, it's 2022. Now they dig in, double down, and play the victim. And also, YOU'RE a bully, bigot, sexist, and/or racist for calling them out.

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Anonymous wrote:To its credit, it's the Duke school newspaper which carried the story first.

Apparently Duke required those who wanted to give the speech to submit an outline. The decision as to which speech would be given was based on the outline. So, the exact speech wasn't submitted for preapproval.

And she was an editor for the same paper...

Clearly she made some enemies at the paper!

Molly Ivens spoke at my graduation -- she was pretty memorable But the students speeches are usually so boring and rote that I'm really surprised anyone remembered a past speech well enough to recognize it. They all basically use similar words to convey similar concepts.

I agree. I don’t remember any student speeches from my mid 2000’s graduation and I have also attended two other graduations. In most cases it’s the valedictorian and another funny or personable student. Do you put it in your resume if you give a speech? Does anyone even care post college? It seems like a lot of work if you have to plagiarize the speech.

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Does anyone care? Well, Duke was spamming social media about her speech. Presumably it would go on her CV as a prestigious and esteemed event, in addition to any articles or generated.