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Message to readers
Emily Iorg
Issue date: 4/10/06 Section: News
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A University News movie reviewer, columnist, and readers' representative plagiarized movie reviews, and has resigned. Samir Patel left the newspaper April 5.
"While I do feel there may have been somewhat of a misunderstanding, I apologize to the readers and am resigning due to my actions," Patel said in an e-mail. "I truly didn't mean to hurt anyone, and least of all this paper."
Patel did not explain what he meant by a misunderstanding. But the newspaper has verified 85 instances where Patel used sentences or paragraphs without giving proper credit to the originators.
See Forum piece 'Message to readers'
"While I do feel there may have been somewhat of a misunderstanding, I apologize to the readers and am resigning due to my actions," Patel said in an e-mail. "I truly didn't mean to hurt anyone, and least of all this paper."
Patel did not explain what he meant by a misunderstanding. But the newspaper has verified 85 instances where Patel used sentences or paragraphs without giving proper credit to the originators.
See Forum piece 'Message to readers'
