I have been following a very interesting case of academic plagiarism in the US where a graduate student has been suing her former university and supervisors for plagiarism and is in turn being sued by them for libel and defamation. This has truly been a gut-wrenching tale and I would like to share them with you here:
Any thoughts and ideas most welcome and appreciated.
Also, I recently received this petition request that I think will interest many of us here, though we need to act fast as it is deadlined at 15th January:
i completed my masters degree here in indonesia for a long TEN years due to a variety of what i deemed as ‘academic abuse’.
i refused to a large extent this abuse, hence the lengthy period. would elaborate later once i finished gathering information about the above case.
btw, i think almost ALL indonesian students were ‘abused academically’ the same way, but remained quiet as they wish to graduate.
i vowed that i would end this ‘academic abuse’ once i graduate, by passing a national law on student-supervisor relation. we’ll see.
in the meantime, i would be sending more information about this case later. 
this financial times article is the first entry on google news when i search for ‘allison harbin’:
Thank you Surya. It has been a while since I last got in touch with Allison and I should get in touch with her soon. This seems to be a very important dialogue for us and let’s keep it going.