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Rufo calls on Harvard’s Board of Overseers to conduct an investigation, when found to have plagiarized her doctoral thesis, arguing “the dissertation is the cornerstone of an academic career, and universities impose demanding standards of academic integrity, with severe consequences for violators.”
Gay has not responded to Rufo’s request for comment.
Rufo’s claims quickly went viral on Sunday night, garnering responses from everyone from Elon Musk to Not The Bee.
The news comes as Gay faces steep criticism for how she handled her testimony before Congress last week..... after she argued calls on campus for the “genocide of Jews” did not amount to bullying or harassment.
She has since apologized for her lackluster testimony, the New York Times reported.
Harvard donors also pulled their support en masse in October after Gay’s initial statement on the Hamas attacks against Israel did not condemn the terrorism that killed 1,200 civilians.
“The Harvard board is meeting tonight and there are rumors that the plagiarism scandal could be the final nail in Gay’s coffin,” Rufo posted Sunday on X.
Academic heavyweights speak out against wokester universities:
A tide is slowly turning. One hopes it opens a floodgate
American Thinker ^ | 12/11/2023 | Monica Showalter
FR Posted on 12/11/2023, 9:51:19 AM by SeekAndFind
With the resignation of woke U of Penn president Liz Magill, following an execrable performance addressing antisemitism in Congress, some kind of dam has broken. Now academics with actual achievements are beginning to speak out against the wokesterism that has laid low the reputations of their universities.
CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria, who’s best described as a left-leaning moderate, has thrown down the gauntlet about woke universities, calling them indoctrination centers, not places of learning, and demanded that universities return to their core mission of seeking the actual truth, demanding excellence, instead of creating their own “truths.
He wrote up his remarks in this CNN commentary America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning
What we saw in the House hearing this week was the inevitable result of decades of the politicization of universities. America’s top colleges are no longer seen as bastions of excellence but as partisan outfits, which means they will keep getting buffeted by these political storms as they emerge. They should abandon this long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.
He’s not just criticizing wokesters, he’s offering a way out — through the sorely needed return to focus on excellence. He cites DEI as a villain, discriminating against achievement in favor of skin color, along with racial quotas in admissions, again, penalizing the achievers in favor of racial numbers, then speech codes, which are obvious chillers of free speech, .......(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...