Nyren, on the other hand, said there was no indication that the writing was not Serbanescu's.

"There were quotation marks in other paragraphs, but none in the first," he said.

Serbanescu and Nyren agree that she never saw a final version of the article, although Nyren said that is normal editing procedure at the Indy.

"We double-checked that she was comfortable with it running in the form she submitted it," he said, adding that this is also part of editing procedure.

Srinivas Ayyagari, the Indy's publisher, said the newspaper sent a letter of apology to Forbes magazine last week.

After the Independent allegations surfaced, The Crimson began an investigation into articles Serbanescu had written for the Arts section.

Serbanescu resigned from The Crimson Sunday, after a meeting to discuss the results of the investigation, which found that portions of at least four of her Arts articles had been plagiarized from reviews published elsewhere previously.