Plagarism Isn't Just A One Way Street, Professors Do It Too!

Haha, it has been determined the phrase "plagarism is a crime", a phrase often told to students in order to deter cheating in highschool and college still actually applies to the teachers saying it. After an 18 month investigation into a professor at Columbia Unveristy named Madonna G. Constantine, a committee has found that she often plagarized not only officially published material, but students work as well, ALL WITHOUT CITATION, and has had the nerve to publish it as her own in academic journals over the past five years. The committee put in place to investigate Dr. Constantine after a noose was found hanging on her office door last year in October prompting a full scale police and college investigation, said that Columbia University is taking the necessary disciplinary actions with Dr. Constantine and that she was being penalized, but did not say what the penalty was.
Constantine has fired back against the allegations stating that, “[the investigation] (which initially was being done to benefit her) is a conspiracy and witch hunt by certain current and former members of the Teachers College community." She then proceeded to play the race card and say, “I am left to wonder whether a white faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner." It was said that in 2006 the chairman of Dr. Constantine's department was informed that she had used materials from journals, and students, and even a junior colleague, and passed it off as her own thus shifting the focus of the investigation.
It is unfortunate to see a professor at one of the most prestigous universities in the world be scrutinzed for such a stupid act of laziness, and also carlessness, but as my teachers always said, "plagarism is a crime."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/education/21prof.html?pagewanted=2&ref=education