Harvard bids bye-bye to Blair

Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 07/12/03 | JIM NOLAN

[randog]

[Hornstine]...may not be going to school in the fall.

In fact, Moorestown is now scrutinizing all her coursework.

L'il Miss Hornstine might be going to school this fall after all...back to high school when the school finds out she (her parents) plagiarised her school work.

[KantianBurke]

"In fact, Moorestown is now scrutinizing all her coursework."

So hypothetically this jerk may not even recieve a high school diploma if evidence of plagarism is docummented from her high school work?? This fellow sums up my feelings on that possibility quite well...

HA HA!

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[thegreatbeast]

This will be tying up the court systems in a number of jurisdictions.
A bit of karmic justice?

[The Brush]

"Said Jacobs: "The kid's had enough."

Her lawsuit couldn't have had anything to do with it do ya think? If she couldn't attend her classes in high school, how was she going to attend classes at Harvard which surely would have involved a tougher schedule?
Sounds like Harvard and her town had been through enough too.

[CyberAnt]

"has nothing to do with her qualifications, achievement or intelligence"

He left out one thing: CHARACTER!

[Thebaddog]

Who's paying the legal bill for all this self-righteousness?

[sandydipper]

"allowed her to to do school work and home and opt out of classes with less academic weight"

What's up wid dat? She didn't have attend classes? Sumpins funny here.

[Calvin Locke]

Ah, but he should have said alleged achievement. At least when it comes to journalism. OTOH, Blair has achieved so much, she'd fit right in at the NYTs.

[Calvin Locke]

Gym.

[auntdot]

Heck, plagiarism is nothing new to Harvard or its graduates.

That JFK did not write 'Profiles in Courage' but gladly accepted the Pulitzer for Ted Sorensen's work is well known.

And Teddy, he did not bother to plagiarize, he just sent in some other student to take his Spanish exam.

In terms of ethics, Harvard makes Jason Blair and the NYT look like paragons of virtue.

[longtermmemmory]

She will sue harvard...

[lawdude]

Let's see. I am disabled so I get special treatment. This makes it easier to excel, implying that for equals, one is really lesser. So since I am not as good as you, I am better than you?????

Is that a good reading of this illogical story?
Hmmm

[Dont Mention the War]

Let's see. I am disabled so I get special treatment. This makes it easier to excel, implying that for equals, one is really lesser. So since I am not as good as you, I am better than you?????

What the article doesn't mention is that many people believe her "immune-system disorder" doesn't even exist, and that it was a story ginned up by her trial lawyer daddy to make her look more like Supergirl to the Harvard admissions office, allow her to "be homeschooled" while getting all the benefits of the public school system (like being on their honor roll and getting named valedictorian) without even taking on the same courseload, etc.

The last line in the article is the funniest:

Said Jacobs: "The kid's had enough."

Horny, your troubles have only begun. Say hello to community college!

[WL-law]

Now Harvard has apparently said no to Hornstine. This late in the college-admissions game, it is unlikely that Hornstine could matriculate at the other schools where she had been accepted - Duke, Stanford, Cornell and Princeton.

These schools won't take an acknowledged plagiarist either, and that's the real problem -- not that 'she's too late now' as this apologist/story-writer would have us believe.

So -- let's now see what university has so little self-esteem that they'll admit this nut-case. Guesses? I read elsewhere that she had Dickenson as her 'backup' school -- will they bite the bullet?

I encourage Freepers to do some Google searches to follow all the juicy details of this story -- this is a great one, one for the ages. I'm still trying to confirm whather her father -- the real evil behind this story -- is a democrat. I'm betting he is.

[CaptainK]

Add in the additonal scam factor of daddy dear doing a lot of the volunteer and charity work because there were not enough hours in the day for a disabled girl to do it all.

[gcruse]

If she couldn't attend her classes in high school, how
was she going to attend classes at Harvard which surely
 would have involved a tougher schedule?

Well, duh.  I never thought of that.  Miraculous cure? LOL

[afuturegovernor]

From what I've read, the school allowed her to drop P.E. which was graded on a 4.0 scale (A.P. classes at the school are graded on a 5.0 scale). Thus by dropping out of P.E. her GPA went up.

[Malesherbes]

I hate the fact that every problem (excuse me, I mean "issue") that happens in our society ends up in court.