Duke speaker now accused of plagiarism was picked after submitting an outline and draft

The Duke University student under investigation for plagiarizing her commencement speech had applied to make the address and was chosen from a field of graduates. Priya Parkash gave the speech at Duke’s Sunday ceremony. Soon after, fellow students on Twitter pointed out near-identical phrases in Sarah Abushaar’s 2014 commencement address at Harvard University. Following the first story in The Duke Chronicle and responding to questions from The News & Observer, Parkash issued a statement through a Los Angeles public relations firm Tuesday night, in which she described the “honor” of having been...