You got it!!!
Posted on 04/27/2005 11:05:25 AM PDT by finnman69
Bolton Accuser a Serial Plagiarizer
Yesterday we noted a post at Daily Kos from John Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, in which she admitted committing plagiarism while working at the Abilene Christian University student newspaper, the Optimist.
The ACU Optimist has a report on this today, with the revelation that Townsel was also involved in another plagiarism incident at the University of Texas at Arlington: Former student acknowledges past plagiarism.
Townsel left ACU soon after being removed from the Optimist to continue her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she worked for the student newspaper, the Shorthorn. Marler said he received a call from UT-Arlington several months after Townsel left ACU regarding another situation of plagiarism with Townsel.
John Dycus, former adviser of the Shorthorn, recalled the event.
"I remember Melody as being very bright," said Dycus, adviser of the UT-Arlington Shorthorn when Townsel worked for the paper. "I remember thinking she didn't have to do this. She was bright enough; her mechanics were good enough; her research skills were good enough. This wasn't necessary."
UPDATE at 4/27/05 8:58:11 am:
In the post at Daily Kos, Melody Townsel wrote:
Months later, while working for another college newspaper, I wrote a review for a local play that tracked closely in format to another writer's review - and, although it was not plagiarized, it made my editors, who had become aware of my recent past, very uncomfortable, and we mutually agreed that I would no longer submit stories to them.
But that isn't how the paper's former editor in chief remembers it: Ex-editor key to Bolton debate. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.)
Theo Carracino, who had been editor in chief of the paper that previous semester, said he had read several news stories in other publications on the issue, and when he read a few of the first paragraphs of Townsel's story, many of the paragraphs seemed familiar to him.
"I knew I'd read them and read them recently'" Carracino said.
With his interest piqued, Carracino said he researched back issues of Time and Newsweek magazines, which had run stories regarding the famine.
He compared Townsel's story to an article titled "An African Nightmare" published in Newsweek on Nov. 26, 1984, and found many similarities.
About 80 percent of Townsel's story was plagiarized, Carracino said.
"I had to overcome my disbelief" he said.
The realization that The Shorthorn had a case of plagiarism to deal with quickly became apparent, he said.
"This was major plagiarism" he said. "Not the case of copying some sentences."
I love the fact that they eat each other alive. Psuedointellectualism meets a consequence free environment....oh, wait! Forget it, the universities already have that niche covered.
That's why there can never be the socialist "utopia" the liberals are always dreaming about.
God Bless
The lady is a crackpot, but then again, so is the entire democrat party
Anyone got picks of this women? I keep hearing her name but cant put a face to the name.
So...if she'd been less intelligent and skilled, it would have been necessary? Sounds to me like she isn't the only one with an ethical blind spot.
I disagree. Nothing is necessary in the absolute sense. So when we that something is necessary, we mean it is necessary in order to accomplish a certain goal. If a person can't write well and doesn't have research skills then it in order to write a good article it would be necessary to plagiarize, but that doesn't mean it's ok.
Name that tune:
Plagiarize
Let no else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plaaagiarize
But remember to call it always please
Research.
So that's how they found her - she was President of the Joe Biden Fan Club!
Knowing what a brainiac Braun is, we should be worried, right?
Every Bolton accuser is either a crackpot or has a contary agenda a mile long.
No photos on either Google or Yahoo.
But there is a pic of Melody as a kid on her Web site:
http://www.townsel-communications.com
Click on the "The Brain Trust" link.
Perhaps she looks like the cartoon on the front page of her site?
And her's a pic of the other Bolton accuser, Lynne Finney, on her Web site:
http://www.lynnefinney.com/about.htm
(Notice both of them have ditsy flying icons and bright colors on their sites?)
Which also explains why she's such a favorite of Biden's.
That was my thought, too. Something about birds of a feather...or some such.
You got it!!!
hehehe! :)
And whatever your definition of the goal, the advisor was clearly implying that if she couldn't turn in excellent work, she'd have to do something dishonest, and that's just not so.
ping
I wonder if she's friends with Ward Chamberlain?
No wonder Biden likes her!
More like all types of corrupt hypocrites. Rwanda, sex slaves and oil for food, anyone?
college paper plagiarism? yawn. They better come up with something better than this or our side looks desperate
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