Subject: Re: Is the U. of Toronto covering up plagiarism by one ot its academic

members?

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:09:00 -0500

From: Office of the President <president@utoronto.ca>

To: David Aliaga <daliaga@ucalgary.ca>

CC: "ellenw@zoo.utoronto.ca" <ellenw@zoo.utoronto.ca>, "jthomson@zoo.utoronto.ca" <jthomson@zoo.utoronto.ca>, "sheldon.levy@utoronto.ca" <sheldon.levy@utoronto.ca>, t.simpson@utoronto.ca, l.charpentier@utoronto.ca, c.tuohy@utoronto.ca, d.peterson@casselsbrock.com, jpetch@osler.com, ohayon@chass.utoronto.com, provost@utoronto.ca, michael.marrus@utoronto.ca, raymond.cummins@utoronto.ca, wired@zoo.utoronto.ca, michael@tht.net, "hilliker@yorku.ca" <hilliker@yorku.ca>, Stan Blecher <sblecher@uoguelph.ca>, "J. Scott Raymond" <jsraymon@ucalgary.ca>

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Dear Mr. Aliaga:

We acknowledge receipt of your email. This matter has been dealt with thoroughly by the University.

Yours sincerely,

Bob Birgeneau

David Aliaga wrote:

> Professor Robert Birgeneau

> President

> University of Toronto

> Via e-mail

>

> Dear Professot Birgeneau and colleagues,

>

> I have become aware of a full interview given to the international

> journal JUST Response

> (http://www.justresponse.net/Genetic_manipulations.html) by Mr. Michel

> Pyshnov,

> a former graduate student at the University of Toronto. The University

> is being accused

> of covering up plagiarism by one of its academic members (Dr. Ellen

> Larsen).

>

> As a Canadian anthropologist and researcher, I am deeply disturbed by

> those accusations. I

> duly ask you to conduct a full inquiry into the case and submit some

> form of appropiate

> response to those grave accusations to the international journal JUST

> Response.

>

> Failure to investigate, and fully resolve Mr. Pyshnov case, will leave

> grave doubts in the international scholarly community about graduate

> programmes at the University of Toronto; doubts I trust you will want

> to put to rest at your earliest possible convenience.

>

> Sincerely,

>

> David Aliaga