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(New page: In preparation for recruitment season, AXO redesigned their [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/aco/Home.html website] late in the summer of 2006. Apparently impressed with the site's amateuri...)
 
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In preparation for recruitment season, AXO redesigned their [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/aco/Home.html website] late in the summer of [[2006]]. Apparently impressed with the site's amateurish design, rival sorority, [[Kappa Alpha Theta]] updated their own [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/kap/Welcome.html website] the following week with a suspiciously similar design, including an identical content layout and menu area. Despite protests from AXO, Theta members refused to change the design.
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In preparation for recruitment season, [[Alpha Chi Omega]] redesigned their [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/aco/Home.html website] late in the summer of [[2006]]. Apparently impressed with the site's amateurish design, rival sorority, [[Kappa Alpha Theta]] updated their own [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/kap/Welcome.html website] the following week with a suspiciously similar design, including an identical content layout and menu area. Despite protests from AXO, Theta members refused to change the design, claiming that the similarity in design was coincidental and resulted from the fact that both used the same Apple iWeb template.
 
 
Some people have claimed that no plagiarism actually took place. They claim the websites are similar because they are both based on the same Apple templates.
 
  
 
== Comparison of websites ==
 
== Comparison of websites ==
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Image:ThetaHomepage.jpg|Kappa Alpha Theta's suspiciously similar website, published a week later
 
Image:ThetaHomepage.jpg|Kappa Alpha Theta's suspiciously similar website, published a week later
 
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/aco/Home.html AXO website]
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* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/kap/Welcome.html KAT website]
  
 
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Revision as of 14:40, 11 June 2007

In preparation for recruitment season, Alpha Chi Omega redesigned their website late in the summer of 2006. Apparently impressed with the site's amateurish design, rival sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta updated their own website the following week with a suspiciously similar design, including an identical content layout and menu area. Despite protests from AXO, Theta members refused to change the design, claiming that the similarity in design was coincidental and resulted from the fact that both used the same Apple iWeb template.

Comparison of websites

External links