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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   In response to the University of Nebraska's proposal to make   
   Martin Luther King's birthday an official University holiday, we   
   here present the MLK plagiarism page, on which we'll be   
   documenting MLK's long career of misrepresenting other writers'   
   work as his own.   
   The page is still under construction. When it is complete, it   
   will compare in detail excerpts of King's works with those of   
   previous authors, showing how King lifted sentences, phrases and   
   entire paragraphs from texts like Paul Ramsey's 'Basic Christian   
   Ethics' (sheesh!). It will show how whole chunks of MLK's   
   doctoral thesis were copied from the thesis of another student,   
   and from the works of eminent theologians. It will show how his   
   early graduate and even undergraduate student papers were   
   filched, and how King's plagiarism extended into his later   
   career, and the works he wrote after he became famous.   
      
      
   A chronology of the discovery of King's plagiarism   
      
   King's plagiarized works   
      
   Student essays   
   Dissertation   
   Books   
   Sermons, speeches and miscellania   
   In the meantime, you might like to check out these links   
   The University of British Columbia policy on plagiarism, which   
   uses a MLK student paper as an example of the most serious kind   
   of plagiarism, complete or near-complete transcription of   
   another author's work   
   University of Nebraska's Philosophy Department's policy on   
   plagiarism . Somehow they left out the caveat "If you become a   
   cultural icon, none of this counts".   
   My Daily Nebraskan column on the King Holiday... ..   
   ...and a reply by John L. Harris , Special Assistant to the Vice   
   Chancellor for Student Affairs.   
   The UNL PC crowd's King web page. Not much about King, but lots   
   of stuff about the PC crowd...   
      
   http://www.martinlutherking.org/plagiarism.html   
          
      
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