November 10, 2006

Investigators Admonish Southern Ill. Officials

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

A committee investigating alleged plagiarism in the strategic plan for Southern Illinois University at Carbondale says administrators there should have made it clear that certain sections of the document had been copied from a plan created by Texas A&M University at College Station.

But the committee's report maintains that Walter V. Wendler, who worked on the Texas A&M plan before coming to Carbondale as its chancellor, "believed he was acting ethically by lifting what he

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