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My sister, a summa cum laude classics major gratuate from Princeton, analyzed and translated previously unknown fragments of Sappho as her senior thesis. Her a
by s_q_b 12y ago
My sister, a summa cum laude classics major gratuate from Princeton, analyzed and translated previously unknown fragments of Sappho as her senior thesis.
Her advisor stole her research wholesale, down to her direct phrasing and mistakes, and published it under his name.
Princeton's administration blew her off completely despite pretty overwhelming evidence he had plagiarized the research wholesale. Certainly more than enough evidence that any student would have been suspended or expelled for the same conduct.
It was very saddening.
- vilhelm_s 12y agoMaybe write to the journal it was published in, and ask them to issue a retraction? If it was published as a thesis, it seems there should be a paper trail.