<p>This reflects badly on Columbia. Students have to audition for selection as speaker at graduation, and they have to submit their speeches to a committee as part of the selection process. I’ve served on this kind of committee at my own university, where we routinely run everything through a software program that checks for plagiarism.</p>
<p>This student demonstrated a lack of ethics, and the faculty and staff have been lazy and negligent. I’m sure Columbia would like to put some sort of spin on this…</p>