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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   Published: October 11, 1991   
   A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded   
   today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages   
   in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36   
   years ago.   
      
   "There is no question," the committee said in a report to the   
   university's provost, "but that Dr. King plagiarized in the   
   dissertation by appropriating material from sources not   
   explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or   
   credited generally and at some distance in the text from a close   
   paraphrase or verbatim quotation."   
      
   Despite its finding, the committee said that "no thought should   
   be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree," an   
   action that the panel said would serve no purpose.   
      
   But the committee did recommend that a letter stating its   
   finding be placed with the official copy of Dr. King's   
   dissertation in the university's library.   
      
   The four-member committee was appointed by the university a year   
   ago to determine whether plagiarism charges against Dr. King   
   that had recently surfaced were in fact true. Today the   
   university's provost, Jon Westling, accepted the committee's   
   recommendations and said its members had "conducted the   
   investigation with scholarly thoroughness, scrupulous attention   
   to detail and a determination not to be influenced by non-   
   scholarly consideration."   
      
      
   The dissertation at issue is "A Comparison of the Conceptions of   
   God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman."   
   Dr. King wrote it in 1955 as part of his requirements for a   
   doctor of philosophy degree, which he subsequently received from   
   the university's Division of Religious and Theological Studies.   
      
   One member of the investigating committee, John Cartwright, the   
   university's Martin Luther King Professor of Social Ethics, said   
   the panel had refrained from speculating about the reasons why   
   Dr. King had not properly attributed material, which came from a   
   variety of other interpreters of the works of Tillich and Wieman.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/us/boston-u-panel-finds-   
   plagiarism-by-dr-king.html   
                
      
      
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