Plagiarism Alleged in Duke Graduation Speech

Duke College is investigating whether or not a scholar speech at graduation Sunday was a plagiarized model of a scholar speech at Harvard College’s graduation in 2014, The Information & Observer reported.

“We’re conscious of and anxious about these allegations and have initiated a course of to know the information of the state of affairs,” stated Michael Schoenfeld, vp for public affairs and authorities relations. “Duke College expects all college students to abide by their dedication to the Duke Group Commonplace in every little thing they do as college students.”

Priya Parkash was the senior class speaker. By a public relations spokesman, she launched a press release to the Information & Observer: “Once I was requested to offer the graduation speech, I used to be thrilled by such an honor and I sought recommendation from revered family and friends about matters I’d tackle. I used to be embarrassed and confused to seek out out too late that a few of the urged passages had been taken from a current graduation speech at one other college. I take full accountability for this oversight and I remorse if this incident has in any manner distracted from the accomplishments of the Duke class of 2022.”

The problems with the speech had been first reported by The Duke Chronicle, of which Parkash was beforehand the information editor. The Duke Chronicle in contrast quite a few passages from Parkash’s speech to 1 by Sarah Abushaar at Harvard.