Biden's aggressive body language suggests he thinks
it was somebody else's fault that he is a plagiarist.
Posted on 01/03/2024 3:32:09 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal
As we wrote here earlier, it was inevitable that Claudine Gay would eventually step down.
A while back, we listed reason #1 of ten why she would resign: "Harvard can claim to be America’s preeminent university, or have a plagiarist as its president—but not both.”
To paraphrase Churchill, Harvard had an initial choice between a scandal and dishonor; it chose dishonor and now it will have scandal.
The latest six allegations of plagiarism (now totaling some two dozen), if they were to be further excused, ignored, or contextualized, would have continued to have made a mockery of Harvard’s own codes on intellectual theft, given:
1) Her plagiarism was not sporadic, but characteristic, systematic, and serial, dating back to her PhD dissertation. 2) It was not a matter of rephrasing the work of others (which in itself is often deemed [especially by Harvard] plagiarism even when cited), but rather word-for-word expropriation. 3) She was not “proactive” as she earlier had claimed in addressing the allegations, but reactive. On the occasion of a new accusation, she habitually insisted she had adhered to the highest standards of scholarship, until she hadn’t—and her growing history of plagiarism made such assertions preposterous—and exposed the Harvard corporation that swallowed them as itself ethically compromised.
What follows?
If Harvard appoints as its permanent president another candidate on the basis of DEI without a record of substantial scholarship, intellectual probity, recognized teaching, and administrative excellence, then the university will only reinforce the now growing consensus that it has abandoned even the veneer of meritocracy. And the institution will thus continue on its current Target/Disney/Bud Lite trajectory.
Its salvation at this nadir is to select a preeminent scholar and nonpartisan, and have most of the current board members/fellows of the Harvard Corporation resign (especially the partisan chairwoman/senior fellow) for incompetence if not worse.
The members' official media release concerning the Gay resignation continued to show blind hubris through tsk-tsking the very unethical behavior that got Gay in trouble in the first place—while pro forma adding the charge of “racism.” (But did “racism” explain why Pennsylvania President Liz McGill also resigned [with Gay, one of three college presidents who shocked the nation by testifying to Congress that they really could/would do little if anything to students and faculty who called for the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel?]).
Finally what is one to make of this paragraph from Harvard’s current public announcement of Gay’s resignation: We do so with sorrow. While President Gay has acknowledged missteps and has taken responsibility for them, it is also true that she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of deeply personal and sustained attacks. While some of this has played out in the public domain, much of it has taken the form of repugnant and in some cases racist vitriol directed at her through disgraceful emails and phone calls. We condemn such attacks in the strongest possible terms.
Are we to believe, then, that President Gay leaves mostly because of “deeply personal and sustained attacks” and “racist vitriol”—and not her decades-long habit of passing off the intellectual work of others as her own—well aside from her misleading congressional testimony that it was her commitment to free speech that had prevented her from acting against clear anti-Semitic activity at her university?
Note in Harvard’s world, plagiarism became “duplicative language” and now it is euphemized further as “missteps”.
Once more, Gay never took “responsibility for them”, but in the face of damning evidence on each case claimed she had always adhered to the highest standards of scholarship and was now “proactively” addressing her plagiarism. In fact, she corrected plagiarism only when called out, and always in a reactive fashion.
As far as the “public domain” snark, Harvard could retain its privacy in addressing its compromised president, by simply not accepting federal research monies, paying the IRS income tax on its huge endowment annual income, not accepting federal guaranteed student loan tuition money—and thus freeing itself from us, the taxpaying rubes of the “public domain”.
She’s STILL on the PAYROLL at $900,000 + SALARY!!!
Posted about 10 times on her resignation. She also keeps her $900k annual salary and remains working for Harvard.
She does not “continue working for Harvard,” she “continues drawing a paycheck from Harvard.”
Are the 2nd and 3rd words in the title out of sequence?
Heh
Good riddance —— how do I get one of those cushy jobs where I make $900,000 after quitting my job?
FTA——
To paraphrase Churchill, Harvard’s clear
choice was between scandal and dishonor;
it chose dishonor and now it will have scandal.
Harvard had to choose:
(a) to be America’s preeminent university,
or (b) have a plagiarist as its president.
But not both.
Gay’s fallback position was that she had adhered to the “highest standards of scholarship,” as her growing history of plagiarism made such assertions preposterous—and exposed the gullible Harvard Corporation that swallowed her academic BS as ethically compromised themselves.
“Tolerance and compassion” works well when govt jobs and tax dollars are being allocated by the pols on Capitol Hill but it is a ruinous stance in the hallowed halls of ivy.
Incorrect, President Claudine Gay will still likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator. She will be returning to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty.
“Good enough for government work” has been replaced by “good enough for an affirmative action graduate/job applicant”.
Have you been in hibernation up there in Minnesota?
In other news, resident Biden enjoyed an ice cream cone on his 80th birthday.
/s
c/ Harvard can claim to have a highly paid, academically incompetent, known plagiarist on the faculty.
EC
She can always go home and do standup comedy in one of the clubs in Port-au-Prince.
Not exactly a claim to fame.
She got her job because “white people bad” and she leaves according to her for the same reason.
At least she’s consistent.
Biden's aggressive body language suggests he thinks
it was somebody else's fault that he is a plagiarist.
Harvard - the "Bud Light" of universities.
Victor Davis Hanson nails it again.
Here comes the 1 million dollar advance for the book she’ll write titled, Kill Whitey
Claudine, Claudine, Claudine, Claudine
I’m begging of you please don’t take my words
Claudine, Claudine, Claudine, Claudine
Please don’t take them just because you can
Sorry Dolly!
“If Harvard appoints as its permanent president another candidate on the basis of DEI without a record of substantial scholarship, intellectual probity, recognized teaching, and administrative excellence, then the university will only reinforce the now growing consensus that it has abandoned even the veneer of meritocracy. And the institution will thus continue on its current Target/Disney/Bud Lite trajectory.”
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Honestly, does anyone even fantasize that Harvard will appoint a reputable scholar and proven leader if that person is male, white, straight? C’mon, man.
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