She wrote the thesis 16 years ago, and they are just discovering this NOW??
When was she convicted and how many years in jail will she get? /s
“She wrote the thesis 16 years ago, and they are just discovering this NOW??”
That’s not unusual. Martin Luther King’s dissertation went largely unquestioned for 36 years before a review board determined it was plagiarized.
The simple fact is that the professors who read Crowley’s in 2001 were not anticipating any plagiarism. Also, now with the internet access to so many books that we can take granted for today it’s easier to catch plagiarism. I’ve caught people plagiarizing her at FR - including at least one person who denied doing it and then I forced him to admit he lied about it.
Many high school or college instructors now require a hard copy paper as well as an electronic copy of the paper so they can cut and paste text into search engines to detect plagiarism.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/us/boston-u-panel-finds-plagiarism-by-dr-king.html