I know I will probably raise some hackles but I can't understand what is so
difficult in crediting proper sources even if you're severely disabled.  It
seems to me it is a matter of making sure everything is properly cited and
footnoted.

I know if I'd got an C-plus average, I'd be talking with my professors to find
out why my grade average was so low.  Most graduate programs consider that to
be a low pass, at best.

Kat

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 8:51 pm, Gary Peterson wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> An E-bud of mine sent me this and I thought you might want to check it
> out.
>
> Later!-Gary
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:43:43 -0400
>
>
>   Woman: BU trumped up plagiarism
> By David Weber
> Monday, August 30, 2004
>
> A 26-year-old woman disabled with cerebral palsy claims Boston University
> dashed her dreams of becoming a lawyer by trumping up charges of plagiarism
> against her and booting her out of law school six days before graduation.
>
>       Layla Kiani, a magna cum laude undergraduate double major from the
> University of Texas, had all but completed her three years of law study at
> BU when two professors leveled the plagiarism charges against her in May
> 2003. She has filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against the school.
>
>       ``This all happened more than a year ago, but I am still in shock
> every day,'' Kiani said.
>
>       Kiani, who moves about in a wheelchair and whose reduced motor skills
> limit her physical ability to write, admits she committed errors in
> footnoting and attribution in four of her papers. But she said she never
> intended to sneak anything by her instructors.
>
>       Kiani said she believed BU had deemed her methods on the papers to be
> sound because they had passed muster previously.
>
>       ``If you turn in a paper and get a grade (C-minus) on it, you would
> think you are OK,'' she said.
>
>       After the initial plagiarism charge was made in May 2003, Kiani said,
> another professor notified the school that he too believed Kiani had
> plagiarized in a paper from the prior year.
>
>       Kiani, who claims misprescribed anti-anxiety medication caused her to
> experience chronic drowsiness that affected her grades, said she felt a
> ``false sense of security'' when she submitted her first troubled paper
> without incident one year before the plagiarism charges.
>
>       BU associate general counsel Lawrence Elswit defends the school's
> decision to cut Kiani loose after her grades were lowered because the
> plagiarism charges caused her average to drop below 2.0.
>
>       ``Without getting into too much detail, the evidence of plagiarism
> was indisputable and overwhelming,'' Elswit said.
>
>       Kiani's lawyer, Ben Tahriri, said, ``You have a colossal institution
> going against diminutive woman who's gone through 10,000 hoops to get where
> she is today.'