PLAGIARISM. Heard enough about it yet? Regrettably, it is a perennial subject at colleges and universities and apparently a perpetual topic in the media. So, since The Cavalier Daily is a piece of the media serving a university, it is not surprising that plagiarism would be a topic in this newspaper.
There is the big deal case that led to five charges, then one charge, of violating the Honor Committee's confidentiality rules. Editor-in-Chief Jason Ally is scheduled to go before the University Judiciary Committee later this week for that one.
Long before that trouble could get too far along, this showed up in the paper ("Plagiarism update," Oct. 3): "The Cavalier Daily regrets to inform readers that it has discovered an instance of plagiarism that occurred in an April 21 opinion column, 'A Walkway to Remember.' Exact phrases were lifted without attribution from a post titled 'Come on Down to the Crossroads
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