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Don’t take credit where none is due (NYT)

Back in 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison ran into a thicket of criticism when it was discovered that the school had doctored a photo on the cover of its undergraduate application materials.

The original photo had been a sea of white faces and didn’t reflect the racial diversity that campus officials desired. Rather than shoot a new photo, however, they decided to superimpose the head of a black student onto the original photo.