Columbia prof, plagiarist

[DesertFox]

A professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who was propelled into the national spotlight when a noose was found on her office door last fall has been found to have plagiarized the work of a former colleague and two former students, the college has announced.

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Madonna G. Constantine

The college, in statements to the faculty and the news media, said an 18-month investigation into charges against the professor, Madonna G. Constantine, had determined there were “numerous instances in which she used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years.”

Susan H. Fuhrman, the college’s president, and Thomas James, the provost, informed the faculty of the case, and said that Dr. Constantine had the right to appeal.

More (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/education/21prof.html?_r=3&ex=1361336400&en=1d45006c8b381539&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)

[DesertFox]

Expect Madonna to haul out Old Reliable:

RACISM

[Kathy30]

She already did. Read the article:

“I am left to wonder whether a white faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner,” she wrote.

Since a white faculty member hadn't stole someone else's work, we'll never know now will we?

[DesertFox]

John Podhoretz
Commentary
20 Feb 08

One of the weirdest stories of last year was the mysterious tale of the noose found on the door of a Teachers College professor at Columbia University, an African-American woman who claims to be a scholar of “racial micro-aggression” — which is to say, events like someone hanging a noose on the door of an African-American.

Her name is not Tawana Brawley. It’s Madonna Constantine. But you might be forgiven for confusing the two.

More (http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/2596)

[DeclinetoState]

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Madonna and Madonna

[PrezLeefun]

Both are idiots.

[DeclinetoState]

Hey, don't diss the Material Girl. Critics say that she can direct as well as she can act!

(For the uninitiated: Madonna can't act.)

[Riverboat]

Publish AND perish, I say.

[DeclinetoState]

I'll bet they all do it. Madonna was just unlucky enough to get caught. Perhaps they ought to take a look at "Dr." Constantine's dissertation while they're at it.

[DesertFox]

I got to know a Puerto Rican "psychologist" pretty well during my five years on the island. Had a doctorate from Barnard College (Colombia's "sister" college for women), but the doctorate was in some kind of admin field. She practiced psychology, giving everyone the impression that her PhD was in psychology. It's legal in PR to practice psychology without a doctorate, but she was a fraud and I lost all respect for her.

This Madonna Constantine even looks like that broad a little. I've had the sneaking suspicion the last 15-20 years, ever since Jodie Foster was at Princeton, that the Ivy League has been churning out politically-correct frauds left and right. The frauds are now so numerous that they can no longer avoid the limelight.

These are the kind of people who really do think there is no difference between writing your own dissertation based on your own research, and "borrowing" from somebody else's dissertation based on their work. They seriously believe that that's what everybody does and therefore when someone raises a complaint about plagiarism, it can only be because of racism or some other petty reason.

This sort of corruption is rampant in Latin America, even in LatAm militaries. We have let it into our premier institutions of learning because of political correctness, being afraid to call it what it is.

[DeclinetoState]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s papers were donated by his wife Coretta Scott King to Stanford University's King Papers Project. During the late 1980s, as the papers were being organized and worked on, the staff of the project made a discovery that dismayed them — King's doctoral dissertation at Boston University, titled A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, included large sections from a dissertation written by another student (Jack Boozer) three years earlier at Boston University.^{[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues#_note-snopes)}

As Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project at Stanford University, has written, "instances of textual appropriation can be seen in his earliest extant writings as well as his dissertation. The pattern is also noticeable in his speeches and sermons throughout his career."^{[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues#_note-0)}

Boston University, where King got his Ph.D. in systematic theology, conducted an investigation that found he plagiarized major portions of his doctoral thesis from various other authors who wrote about the topic.^{[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues#_note-1)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues#_note-2)}

According to Ralph E. Luker, who worked on the King Papers Project directing the research on King's early life, King's paper The Chief Characteristics and Doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism (available here (http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/papers/vol1/500428-The_Chief_Characteristics_and_Doctrines_of_Mahayan a_Buddhism.htm)) was taken almost entirely from secondary sources.^{[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues#_note-ss)} He writes:
Moreover, the farther King went in his academic career, the more deeply ingrained the patterns of borrowing language without clear attribution became. Thus, the plagiarism in his dissertation seemed to be, by then, the product of his long established practice.^{[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues#_note-ss)} Although several newspapers had the story for over a year, none published it, later prompting speculation that the story had been withheld due to political correctness. The incident was first reported in December 3, 1989 edition of the Sunday Telegraph by Frank Johnson, titled "Martin Luther King--Was He a Plagiarist?" The incident was then reported in U.S. in the November 9, 1990 edition of the Wall Street Journal, under the title of "To Their Dismay, King Scholars Find a Troubling Pattern." Several other newspapers then followed with stories, including the Boston Globe and the New York Times. Numerous newspaper editorials defended King, saying he was still a great man regardless of his actions. Some articles questioned why the plagiarism went unnoticed.Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues)

[Gato es Verde]

I smell a new role for Whoopi.

[RogerFGay]

Somebody from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comhttp://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/ /><st1:City w:st=Columbia</ST1:p</st1:City> did a doo-doo? Oh, I'm totally disillusioned now. I thought all far left academics were of perfect personal character.
(That’s sarcasm you know.)<O:p</O:p

[Rhino]

Columbia prof, plagiaristIsn't that an axiom?

[DesertFox]

I think Colombia Journalism School now teaches plagiarism as an art form. If you present your story as "your truth," you can say most anything and get away with it.

Jonah Goldberg cites Robert Reich's memoirs as a fascinating glimpse into the way Lefties actually seem to see the world. Reich wrote about meeting with reps of industry and their lawyers. He said one lawyer was literally jumping up and down screaming, "Evidence! Evidence!" He said in another similar meeting the air was filled with foul language and cigar smoke, and no women were even there to represent their gender.

Welp, a conservative-leaning reporter happened to know that video had been made of both those meetings. Nothing of the sort reported by Reich ever did occur. Both meetings were the standard boring litany of reports. Nobody jumped up and down screaming anything. No meeting took place that was filled with foul language or smoke of any kind, and about a third of the participants were women.

The reporter, apparently on tv, had Reich on and ast about the discrepancies between what Reich said happened and what actually did happen. Reich said something to the effect that his book was "just a memoir, not a scholarly take on what happened." The reporter pressed the point, asking if Reich just made up all that shit. Reich responded with something like, he would only defend what his perceptions perceived.

In other words, Robert Reich, former HHS secretary under Clinton and Yale grad, actually sees the world in cartoons and grotesque caricatures.

This was one of the most telling exposures into Lefties I've ever seen, along with the unending stream of exposures of liars: Feminist liars, victimology liars, enviro liars, liberal liars, proabortion liars, literary liars, film liars -- liars liars liars in an unending, sickening stream. Pathology has become normal on the Left, has been raised high and praised, has been enshrined in law, has been awarded Pulitzer Prizes and Nobel Prizes.

Makes you wanna puke.