Posted on 12/27/2023 1:24:27 AM PST by Libloather
Harvard's embattled president is facing yet further questions about her academic record, after a statistics expert challenged the data used in a report which helped win her tenure at Stanford.
Claudine Gay, who took over as president in July, has been at the center of a firestorm since the October 7 Hamas attacks. She was seemingly slow to condemn students who justified the terrorist violence, and slow to speak out against antisemitism on campus.
The harsh spotlight has spread to her academic record, with accusations of plagiarism - and on Tuesday, a data scientist challenged her analytical methods. It was then revealed that she had refused to share her data, raising eyebrows in academia.
Jonatan Pallesen, a Copenhagen-based data scientist working for the Confederation of Danish Industry, tweeted that he had examined her use of data in her PhD thesis, and a 2001 American Political Science Review (APSR) paper.
The 2001 paper - 'The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation' - was one of four peer-reviewed political science articles which secured her 2005 tenure at Stanford.
Gay had received an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard, before returning to Stanford to teach.
In 2006, she joined Harvard's faculty, serving as a professor of government and of African and African American studies. She became dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
Pallesen found that the 2001 paper was misleading, and incomplete.
'I am not a political scientist, but I am pondering about the whole approach of her study,' he said.
Christopher Brunet, a contributing editor at The American Conservative, then followed up on Pallesen's concerns in The Dossier, and found that Gay had refused to share the data which informed her conclusions.
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The problem is getting away w/ faking it has been going on for so long, they’re convinced that things are the way they “think” they are. There has just got to be racism or these race scholars would be nowhere. So they just make it up,
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Claudine Gay is an American political scientist and academic administrator who is the 30th president of Harvard University, and the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies. Wikipedia
Born: 1970 (age 53 years), New York, NY
Education: Harvard (1998), Phillips Exeter Academy, Stanford
Academic advisor: Gary King
Books: The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority
Representation on Political Participation in California
Doctoral Thesis: Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success
and the Redefinition of American Policies (1997)
harvardcrimson.com
A Law Firm Said Plagiarism Allegations Against Harvard
President Gay Were ‘Demonstrably False;’ Then She Submitted Corrections.
By Julian J. Giordano, Cam E. Kettles and Tilly R. Robinson, Crimson Staff writers
Harvard threatened to sue the New York Post for defamation over accusations of plagiarism against President Claudine Gay in October, calling the claims “demonstrably false.” Then, the University’s own review found several instances of “duplicative language” in Gay’s work. Now, the University is under fire for allegedly attempting to suppress claims of inadequate citation it later found were, at least in part, credible.
Harvard was first informed that the Post was pursuing a story about 27 “possible examples of plagiarism” against Gay through a press inquiry sent Oct. 24. At the time, the Post did not provide a source for the allegations, which had been circulating on anonymous chat forums since at least December 2022, accompanied by racial epithets and conspiracy theories.
In response, the University’s outside counsel, Clare Locke — a high-powered law firm specializing in defamation lawsuits — wrote in a letter to the Post that the alleged instances of plagiarism included in the media inquiry were “both cited and properly credited,” according to excerpts from the letter published Friday by the Post.
“These allegations of plagiarism are demonstrably false,” the letter says. In the letter, Clare Locke also threatened future legal action against the New York Post. “Why would someone making such a complaint be unwilling to attach their name to it?” the letter says.
On Oct. 29, five days after the New York Post’s initial comment request, Gay requested the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — lead an independent review of the articles included in the publication’s media inquiry, according to a summary of the review released last week. That review, whose findings were shared with the full Corporation on Dec. 9, found “instances of inadequate citation” in two published articles. The allegations of plagiarism remained unpublicized even as Gay’s presidency was further engulfed in controversy over her handling of tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict and antisemitism on Harvard’s campus.
But beginning Dec. 10, as the Corporation met to decide Gay’s fate in the presidency in the wake of her controversial congressional testimony, public accusations of plagiarism against Gay began to swirl, first from conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo, and later in articles by the Washington Free Beacon and the Post.
On Dec. 12, in a statement backing Gay as president, the Corporation acknowledged findings of improper citation. The statement also indicated Gay would make corrections to two articles, which she submitted on Dec. 14. One week later, Harvard announced Gay would also submit corrections to her dissertation.
Still, the summary of the review said the passages at issue, “while regrettable, did not constitute research misconduct,” which had to involve “intentional deception or recklessness.” Some of the corrections Gay submitted to her publications refer to works named in the Post’s Dec. 12 article, though The Crimson was unable to obtain a copy of the Post’s initial media inquiry.
The admission of improper citations marks an about-face for the University, which initially said that the Post’s anonymous allegations of plagiarism were unsubstantiated. In the letter from Clare Locke, the University said some of the authors whose work Gay allegedly lifted quotes from without proper citation said they did not feel as though Gay had plagiarized their articles. “The statements of these scholars, and their own plainly stated conclusions about the use of their work, should end the inquiry,” the letter says. The letter said that “the proposed article must not be published,” adding that it could cause “immense emotional and reputational damages” to Gay.
The use of Clare Locke, whose other clients have included voting-machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and ex-NBC anchor Matt Lauer, represents a growing willingness from Harvard to rely on third parties for damage control as the school’s leadership has become embroiled in scandal.
Harvard hired public relations giant Edelman to advise the school’s messaging over the Israel-Hamas conflict, The Crimson reported earlier this month, and both crisis communications guru Risa Heller and white-shoe law firm WilmerHale prepped Gay for her testimony before Congress. But Clare Locke’s exchange with the Post has only cast further scrutiny on the University’s handling of the plagiarism allegations and added fuel to a campaign to discredit and remove Gay from her post.
Rufo — who has said he timed the publication of his initial allegations of plagiarism to do maximal damage to Gay’s presidency — wrote on X that Harvard’s lawyers “bullied the Post into silence.”
Billionaire Harvard donor Bill A. Ackman ’88 — who has repeatedly called for Gay’s resignation since her congressional testimony — wrote on X that “@Harvard misled and threatened the @nypost with litigation to get it to kill an article which alleged that President Gay had committed plagiarism.” “This reflects very poorly on the Corporation,” Ackman added.
A Harvard University spokesperson declined to release the full letter from Clare Locke or to comment for this article.
Disgraced “Harvard president,” Claudine Gay, built
a towering ghetto-nurtured DEI empire on campus.
Source-—12/21/23 FR thread
In one example, Gay commissioned a “Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage” after the death of George Floyd in 2020. This task force later released a series of recommendations for engaging in what it referred to as the “historical reckoning with racial injustice.”
Among its recommendations reportedly included a mandate to change “spaces whose visual culture is dominated by homogenous portraiture of white men.”
It also said administrators should “refresh” the walls of Annenberg Hall, which “prominently display a series of 23 portraits, none of [which] depict women, and all but three of [which] depict white men.”
The task force never explained who the white men were or why they were on the walls of Annenberg Hall in the first place. The only reasons for the removal of these paintings appeared to be due to their skin color and sex, according to white-biased Gay.
Last year, Gay launched an initiative within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for “de-naming” any “space, program, or other entity” deemed racist by the faculty and administration.
Moreover, deeming such entities “racist” would be “based on the perception that a namesake’s actions or beliefs were ‘abhorrent’ in the context of current values,” meaning that Harvard would use presentism in order to pass judgment on individuals who lived hundreds of years ago.
“Since then, the university has grappled with denaming multiple buildings, including Winthrop House, named after John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his great grandson, also John Winthrop, a Harvard professor and president,” Rufo pointed out.
In another example, Gay, as president of Harvard, is leading a “sprawling DEI bureaucracy,” otherwise known as Diversity, equity, and inclusion, which “seeks to influence how students speak, think, and behave in relation to race.”
The CRT expert noted that....... Harvard has deleted nearly all DEI materials from its website....... following Gay’s disastrous congressional testimony, in which she declined to say whether advocating for the genocide of Jews is permissible on campus.
Recovered DEI documents through an Internet archive show that Harvard’s diversity administrators urge students to internalize the Critical Race Theory narrative, which is that America is systemically racist, riddled with white-baiting code words like “police brutality,” “white supremacist violence,” and the “weaponization of whiteness.”
Students have also been encouraged to “unpack” their so-called “white” and “male” privileges, and to consider their “white fragility,” which ghetto-nurtured Gay’s DEI documents say is derived from “the privilege that accrues to white people living in a society that protects and insulates them from race-based stress.”
As Breitbart News reported, Gay has been facing nationwide scrutiny since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel due to her failure to properly respond to the matter.
The Harvard leadership botched its statement after more than 30 of its student groups signed a pro-terror later blaming Israel for the terrorist attack against itself.
Gay later delivered a disastrous testimony during a congressional hearing regarding antisemitism alongside the presidents of University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Now, the Harvard president’s own Ph.D. dissertation is being called into question over allegations of plagiarism.
Apparently the peer-reviewers need to be exposed and reviewed. Sounds like a good old boy network where no one is critical of others work so they get the same treatment.
“In 2006, she joined Harvard’s faculty, serving as a professor of government and of African and African American studies. She became dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2018.”
How can Harvard or any serious business place someone at the helm with such weak and inconsequential ‘qualifications’? The board itself should be held accountable.
DEI has to DIE. It isn’t about accepting or tolerating, it’s an evil intent to divide and destroy.
So many complicit. So many corrupt. They have no conscience. Sad🙏
Just more proof that universities were taken over by the communists.
BTTT
They openly state their intent.
They simply make up stuff to "prove" their false views of how the universe works are correct.
They do not accept logic, rationality, or even math, because they are parts of "whiteness".
She’s a fraud all the way down. A fraud at every level of magnification. A fractal fraud.
Having Ms. Gay as Harvard president seems illogical.
I could mention that there might be a number of people unwilling to buy that book and in fact can’t think of anyone I know that WOULD be willing to buy it even in a used bookstore.
Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful.
The hypocrisy of those who put her in place knows no bounds. She's exactly who they wanted to further their anti-American and anti-white male causes. They were quite comfortable with all that until she turned on them.
Let her presidency at Harvard be celebrated for the truth of what the institution is and who the "owners" are.
No one bothered to check her out they just saw the name Gay and said ya that’s the ticket ,LOL
Could her ascent to Harvard’s presidency have been any steeper, or more quick?
Anointed at birth also was Anita Hill.
The Lice Cut Gay is the current Anita Hill
“These allegations of plagiarism are demonstrably false . . . . Why would someone making such a complaint be unwilling to attach their name to it?” the letter says.
I love these type of replies from leftists. There is NO doubt that everyone involved in defense of this diversity-hire STILL totally believe the RussiaHoax, the PeeTapesHoax, the SteelDossierHoax, and EVERY other Trump takedown story supported by “confidential sources.” This situation is a delight.
Yeah, come to think of it.....it is a belly laugh that the gullible lefties still believe in
the RussiaHoax, the PeeTapesHoax, the SteelDossierHoax,
and EVERY other Trump takedown story......
just as long as its supported by “confidential sources.”
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