The Boston Globe, September 4th, 1991
In his first public statement since this summer's scandal that ultimately cost him his position as dean of Boston University's College of Communication, H. Joachim Maitre said that he was the victim of a "smear" and of "ambush journalism" and that he had not plagiarized his May 12 commencement speech. The Globe reported on July 2 that Maitre, in the speech, had repeated 15 paragraph-long sections of an article by film critic Michael Medved without any attribution. The report was based on a comparison of a videotape of the commencement and a copy of Medved's article. Ten days later, BU's presid...
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