Columbia Official Is Accused of Plagiarizing Dissertation From Wikipedia

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

2. Sounds like a fascist attempt at another hatchet job, but I wanna see the diss and compare.

Depending on the discipline, it's not at all weird to QUOTE two dozen other scholars' works. Let's see the specifics of these allegations, the allegedly plagiarized passages (with proper citations to the originals), and the entire dissertation. Also, citing anything from Wikipedia in a diss is a real stretch, and probably a tell that this is bogus. Basic info on any subject, which is what Wikipedia is, would be known to both scholar and his/her committee before a student is advanced to candidacy (the step before writing a dissertation) in a doctoral program. While one might include such information in a dissertation, particularly one destined for publication, one wouldn't need to crib a Wikipedia entry. A doctoral candidate would know. Of course, said doctoral candidate could have WRITTEN (or rewritten) the Wikipedia entry in question. I'd also want to know who was on the committee that oversaw both the dissertation and the defense. Issues of plagiarism should be caught DURING the process, so their integrity is in question as well.