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Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism
AP ^ | January 3, 2024 | COLLIN BINKLEY AND MORIAH BALINGIT

Posted on 01/03/2024 3:12:46 AM PST by Fzob

WASHINGTON (AP) — The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education.

Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles. The allegations surfaced amid backlash over her congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.

The plagiarism allegations came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who sought to oust Gay and put her career under intense scrutiny in hopes of finding a fatal flaw. Her detractors charged that Gay — who has a Ph.D. in government, was a professor at Harvard and Stanford and headed Harvard’s largest division before being promoted — got the top job in large part because she is a Black woman.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: academia; ap4hamas; apantisemitism; apdefendsplagiarism; blackthievesmatter; claudinegay; clownworld; collinbinkley; goebbelsaward; grammarly; harvard; moriahbalingit; plagiarism; resignation
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To: Jimmy Valentine

And she’s still getting $900K/year, annoying to an article a couple days ago. So much for consequences.


41 posted on 01/03/2024 4:40:16 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Fzob

Weapon? Just wow, AP that weaponizes scandalous activity by covering it up for liberals and making it up for conservatives.


42 posted on 01/03/2024 4:43:10 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Fzob
She plagiarized from another black woman, Carol Swaine. Why no mention of that?
43 posted on 01/03/2024 5:04:08 AM PST by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: Jimmy Valentine

And everyone involved in hiring her, including every board member who approved it, needs to resign. She really is that bad. This episode has made it clear she was only hired for her female parts, skin color, and sexual preferences (which I assume align with her name).


44 posted on 01/03/2024 5:12:13 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Fzob

pity.


45 posted on 01/03/2024 5:13:30 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Fzob

Can we assume from this article that the author assumes that liberals regularly cheat?


46 posted on 01/03/2024 5:20:14 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: sauropod

A-Holes Pretending to be journalists (AP) -”only conservatives think plagiarism is a problem”
Except in the case of Melania Trump - remember this one?

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/20/486758596/trump-speechwriter-accepts-responsibility-for-using-michelle-obamas-words


47 posted on 01/03/2024 5:22:51 AM PST by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: Fzob

AP = Always Progressive.


48 posted on 01/03/2024 5:23:36 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: pepsionice

I too was in 11th grade in 1975 and experienced the exact same thing in my English class. My teacher, Mrs. Anderson, made dang sure her students understood the folly of plagiarism.


49 posted on 01/03/2024 5:26:09 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Fzob

But yet when the left digs up a decade old video or recording of a Conservative saying something not politically correct in today’s world, apparently that is perfectly fine.


50 posted on 01/03/2024 5:31:43 AM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: Fzob

Leftist “black scholars” and plagiarism go together like a horse and buggy.

With AI the hunt is on!


51 posted on 01/03/2024 5:33:30 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Demiurge2

The AP Style Guide is Deep State propaganda in action.


52 posted on 01/03/2024 5:34:47 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Black Schlors are like Black skiers and Black backpackers........ there aren’t any


53 posted on 01/03/2024 5:37:57 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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To: XRdsRev; All

Some years ago plagiarism did in Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe/had radio show/ Imus in the morning regular IIRC.
Rival writer and talk host Howie Carr excitely kept repeating “Barnicle resigns!” in his radio studio
(Washington com-Post:”What can I do about that? I’m stupid and embarrassed.” Mike Barnicle said he never read the George Carlin book that contained 10 of the jokes in his column. )


54 posted on 01/03/2024 5:39:35 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Ge0ffrey

The article is a reference guide to liberals on how to frame this incident in their minds.


55 posted on 01/03/2024 5:41:48 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Fzob

That the whacko hard left is evidently so invested in stealing intellectual property that they’re terrified of being caught is hilarious beyond words.


56 posted on 01/03/2024 5:41:49 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Chicory

The newest conservative weapon against flash mobs: Looting.

Yeah. Sounds about right.


57 posted on 01/03/2024 5:48:47 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Fzob

Not anymore if you believe the authors of this trash…it’s conservatives fault for speaking the truth. Poor Claudine! My ample ass.


58 posted on 01/03/2024 5:51:25 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: bort

I couldn’t read it after the first sentence. I would have thrown this garbage in the trash if I was their editor. That’s right, I forgot, editors are passé.


59 posted on 01/03/2024 5:54:59 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: Montana_Sam

Good point—Abby Hoffman should have titled a book:

“Steal This Intellectual Property”.

;-)


60 posted on 01/03/2024 5:59:43 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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