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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The American citizen has been so numbed by violent black criminality that plagiarism and fraud doesn’t seem too bad.
When I was in College- It was clearly understood that plagiarism would get you a zero on the paper or failed the class.
Excellent point!
As if only conservatives care about this?
I present you with a most agreeable opinion by eugyppius.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/after-claudine-gays-resignation-associated
If you complain about my theft of your work, then that means you are a racist.
The AP needed a bit of editing there.
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