Posted on 01/02/2024 3:29:47 PM PST by george76
She took no responsibility for the plagiarism allegations nor the state of campus hatred toward Jews and Israel.
Despite the resignation as university president, Ms. Gay will remain a Harvard faculty member.
The school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, first reported the resignation. Ms. Gay’s tenure was just over six months and is the shortest in the 387-year history of the school.
Ms. Gay has been accused of plagiarism stemming from her career in academia.
According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, there were six new plagiarism charges against Ms. Gay in a report submitted anonymously to the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi Hoekstra, the Research Integrity Office, and the Committee on Professional Conduct.
The plagiarism scandal began when conservative activist and Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet flagged instances of plagiarism from her Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies.”
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whistleblower accused Ms. Gay of plagiarism in both her publications and dissertation, calling on the university to open a “new research misconduct inquiry.”
“Now I am forced to submit an additional complaint with nearly 50 allegations, including over half a dozen examples never seen before,”
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Some of them occur in a publication by Gay that was until now believed to be free from allegations of plagiarism. Others occur in the dissertation.”
The first complaint, which came at a uniquely troubled time when Ms. Gay’s much-criticized remarks at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism drew widespread doubt on her fitness for the presidency, involved seven of her 17 published works.
The second complaint now points to an eighth publication, a 2001 article that allegedly borrowed material verbatim from David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Specifically, the new complaint alleged that Ms. Gay took four unquoted sentences from Mr. Canon’s 1999 book “Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts,” and used them in her article “The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California.”
While Ms. Gay did include Mr. Canon in the bibliography, she did not cite him anywhere in or near the passage,
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The dissertation allegedly lifted a full sentence from Harvard political science professor Gary King’s 1997 book, “A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data.”
Mr. King served as Ms. Gay’s thesis adviser.
“Ms. Gay does not cite King here and uses no quotation marks around verbatim language,” the complaint stated.
This would add to the three corrections in Ms. Gay’s dissertation that were announced last month following a review of her published scholarship by the Harvard Corporation, the university’s highest governing body.
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A letter signed by the Fellows of Harvard College, the university’s governing board, expressed appreciation for Ms. Gay’s service.
Alan M. Garber, provost and chief academic officer, will serve as interim president, and that the search for Ms. Gay’s successor “will begin in due course.”
The letter did not address the plagiarism or antisemitism controversies.
Antisemitism Hearing..
Ms. Gay’s resignation comes a month after controversial testimony before Congress on antisemitism on college campuses amid the latest conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House GOP, if calling for genocide against Jews is bullying or harassment, Ms. Gay demurred.
“It can be, depending on the context,” she said.
“Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct, that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and we do take action,” added Ms. Gay.
Ms. Gay later issued a statement apologizing for her answers.
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Ms. Stefanik, during the hearing, called for Ms. Gay’s resignation. In a statement, she celebrated her stepping down, calling it “long overdue.”
“Claudine Gay’s morally bankrupt answers to my questions made history as the most viewed Congressional testimony in the history of the U.S. Congress,” she said.
“Her answers were absolutely pathetic and devoid of the moral leadership and academic integrity required of the President of Harvard.”
Ms. Stefanik, a Harvard alum, called the resignation “just the beginning of what will be the greatest scandal of any college or university in history.”
In late November, the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation into Harvard in light of antisemitism on its campus, which includes 3,200 Jewish undergraduate and graduate students, making up almost 27 percent of the student population.
I don’t think so. She’s got a cushy job making lots of money. Most people would be so humiliated doing what she did, they’d slink off somewhere. But she’s made herself a false victim of racism along with Harvard seeing her as a victim. She perversely has the last laugh.
She’s too high profile but I worked from 1969-2017 at two universities and saw a number of recycled presidents come and go. One was a woman who was a spitefully angry alcoholic. Another couple resigned under serious legal allegations.
Little known secret outside academia: If one university or college can barely stand to have their leader stay they give them a glowing sendoff to another one that welcomes the new leader until that one moves on to give problems to the next place. Goes on and on.
I’d like a shot at that Harvard Pres. job. I don’t know much about plagiarism but I bet I could learn to do it as good as she did. And I wouldn’t give any antisemitism testimony. My lips are sealed. White males are probably in the minority at that woke University so I should get some of that Affirmative Action points in my favor.
My “Give a damn” meter seems to be broken. Not moving at all!
Ms. Gay should have her plagiarism-loaded PhD revoked, and be totally fired from any position at Harvard!
Her blaming “racism” in her resignation letter is intolerable!
Harvard students must be shown that there can be no tolerance for plagiarism, falsified data analysis, and for crying “racism” when one is justly called our for serious violations of scholarly integrity!
Antisemitism, anti-Christianity, and censoring of free speech with “DEI” are also intolerable!!
But note Jews make up less than 10% of undergrads at Harvard. Victor Davis Hanson says the goal is get the percentage of Jews at Harvard down to their percentage of the US population, around 2%. A few decades ago the percentage was over 20.
Grad schools at Harvard are more than half Jewish. Grad school in things like law and medicine are very expensive and still very competitive.
https://www.hillel.org/college/harvard-university/
Imagine her saying opposition to slavery depends on the context.
Back in grandpa’s day, that approach was called fence sitting and was, I would think, rather uncomfortable. Now it’s relativism and comfort is the whole point of it.
Lawyer offices tend to do that too. As do churches with problem ministers.
... also, as a side note, this nixes my plans for a Henry Potts and the Stoned Sorcerer....
The real story is not that she resigned, but that Harvard did not fire her.
She blames racism and everyone but herself for having to leave——but she will remain a faculty member at Harvard.
How was she forced to plagiarize over 50 separate times?
It actually reminds me of the Court TV show last night of the man who deliberately plowed into pedestrians at the Waukesha Christmas parade in 2021. In court he blamed everyone else and said God for some unknown reason is punishing him by being on trial with all these people criticizing him. No personal responsibility at all. 6 dead and 62 injured.
“Christmas Parade Rampage”
What about her colleagues who supposedly did peer reviews of her papers? They have some things to answer for as well.
“Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard president, will remain on school faculty.”
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Because she sets such a good example of professionalism and integrity. /sarc
“Ms. Gay should have her plagiarism-loaded PhD revoked, and be totally fired from any position at Harvard!”
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She’s well positioned now to run for governor or some other high office in the state. Don’t be surprised if you see her running for the U.S. Senate. /sarc
Darrell Brooks belongs to Black Supremacist sect of Islam called ‘The Five Percent Nation’ - who shared pro-Hitler memes, called for violence against white people.. most of which have been deleted since his arrest for the Wisconsin Christmas parade -deadly carnage.
In his rap songs, Brooks also bragged that he was a “terrorist” and a “killer in the city.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4015514/posts
Probably told the brass: Y’all want me to bail to cover your tails y’all give me a golden parachute. I’ll be a professor teaching one class a semester and get the salary and perks I got as president.
Pls see my #34.
Thanks for the post. Scary criminal.
So glad he was convicted and went to prison. Never a guarantee.
Depressing and distressing.
They had to bribe her.
She steps down from the position, but will STILL GET PAID her $900K salary
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1742340405314601382
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