<p>I am sorry to hear this, good luck with your appeal… Maybe you should get outside help for your appeal.</p>
<p>I am sorry for the way things turned out. An FYI, however, is that you can be charged with plagiarism even if you were not intentially cheating. That charge is up to the professor. Even if you could show that you weren’t trying to cheat, sources that don’t make sense and incorrect citations (Jones when you ment Smith, page 65 when you meant page 75) would be enough to justify the charge. Now, if the citation problems where clearly the result of not understanding something, many teachers would simply give you a big deduction and let you redo the paper. But not all would. And you certainly wouldn’t expect an A in the class with those kinds of mistakes in a major assignment. </p>
<p>With regard to the other matter, follow the appeal process.</p>
<p>Would a lawyer be of any help? Did you tell your parents?</p>
<p>Your roommate should try to get his ex-girlfriend to write as much as possible in emails on the subject. Even if she doesn’t write an email to the prof recanting everything, if she says something in an email to him that shows her motivation or slant, it may be helpful. Just make sure you maintain really really good relations with that roommate.</p>
<p>There is an old story about a person who owed money to a relative, but nothing had been put into writing. The guy wrote an email to the relative saying “Please pay me the $10,000 you owe me.” The deadbeat wrote back “What do you mean, I didn’t borrow $10,000 from you, I only borrowed $5,000.” </p>
<p>He responded, “Thank you very much for putting your debt to me into writing. Now pay up.”</p>
<p>@ordinarylives, there is a document I found written by the Dean of my school that makes an important distinction between sloppy citationwork and intentional plagiarism. It basically says careless errors in citing sources should NOT be considered plagiarism. My paper is a textbook example of this. I have a meeting with the Dean tomorrow, hopefully this will clear things up. Will update soon.</p>
<p>I hope the full truth comes out, and will look forward to update.</p>
<p>OP-Just checking in and hoping your meeting with the Dean was helpful to you.</p>
<p>Great news! </p>
<p>The Associate Dean threw out my case! Apparently this is the only time someone has had a conviction thrown out without having to go through an entire appeal process! She said given the evidence, it was apparent that another student was using the system as a vehicle for revenge, and that such behavior should not be tolerated. So I’m free! Thank god there is still some justice in the system! I am so relieved!</p>
<p>Whew! Good news and many lessons learned all around…</p>
<p>Good for you!
Are they going to discipline the girl?</p>
<p>Thanks for the update–glad it worked out!</p>
<p>Cool that’s awesome</p>
<p>So are they going to discipline the girl?</p>
<p>Congratulations! :)</p>
<p>And thanks for letting us know.</p>
<p>Great news.</p>
<p>Congratulations! That’s great.</p>
<p>^^^Sorry you had to go through all of that, but glad it turned out okay in the end. The girlfriend clearly has “issues.”</p>
<p>I’m not sure if she’ll be charged yet. I was told that if she were to make the accusation again in my appeal (since technically she recanted at some point), she would be charged, but considering I no longer have to appeal I’m not sure what they are going to do with her. She was just kicked out of my dorm though, and I was granted a no contact order against her.</p>