The Harvard Crimson is mired in the controversies of copycat cartoonists, quote cribbing, and an editor who would like to hide in a spiderhole. It's not a good sign for the future of journalism when the editor of an Ivy League paper takes damage-control tips from Saddam Hussein. You'd think the Harvard kids would have learned their lesson after Kaavya Viswanathan's legendary fall from grace. But, in the past few weeks, plagiarism fever has......

Sorry, Kathleen Breeden, you're no Kaavya Viswanathan. The Harvard Crimson broke the story last spring that then Harvard College sophomore, now junior, Viswanathan had included some suspiciously similar passages in her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. This week they turned on one of their own and revoked two political cartoons drawn by Kathleen E. Breeden citing apparent plagiarism. The student-run paper cites two instances, including the October......

Last week when Bostonist posted about a craigslist ad in which someone offered to write papers for money, we were joking when we suggested that Kaavya Viswanathan might be behind it. After all, her M.O. is to steal other people's writing, not do it for them. But there's a new ad on craigslist that seems like it has to be Opal Mehta's doppelganger: Need help with college essays on Shakespeare and Philosophy College student that......

Well, as things get worse and worse for poor Kaavya Viswanathan, she has to be asking herself, "What now?" Apparently, she's back in Cambridge doing just that, and not without some soul-searching. Bostonist has to admit that if we feel any sympathy at all for her, it's because the fiasco of her massive plagiarism will be so hard to live down, and we definitely made our share of mistakes at the tender age of 18......

Oh it’s been a doozy of a week for Harvard sophomore, Kaavya Viswanathan, since her college paper, the Crimson, first reported that her novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, is just a bit too similar to author Megan F. McCafferty’s novels. At first, Viswanathan told the media that she had “no idea what they are talking about” and then went about her normal life as a Harvard co-ed. Of......

While Bostonist constantly struggles to get you the latest news here in the city, we like to think that we’ve got our act together (somewhat)…that is until we read about someone much younger who has accomplished something that we some day hope to. Last week, we read an article from the A.P. Wire about a Harvard student, Kaavya Viswanathan, who at age 17, signed a two-book deal with publishing house Little, Brown for a reported......