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Harvard has decided that President Claudine Gay should stay on with the unanimous support of the board despite the antisemitism and plagiarism.
If she were a student she would have been expelled, but the standards are lower for presidents than for students.
Harvard’s plagiarism policy is that “students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College.”
Harvard President Claudine Gay, already under fire for saying that calling for the genocide of the Jews requires “context”, turns out to have plagiarized what little work she had done.
In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors—including two of her colleagues in Harvard University’s department of government—without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay’s dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo and Karlstack’s Chris Brunet…
In her 1997 thesis, for example, she borrowed a full paragraph from a paper by the scholars Bradley Palmquist, then a political science professor at Harvard, and Stephen Voss, one of Gay’s classmates in her Ph.D. program at Harvard, while making only a couple alterations, including changing their “decrease” to “increase” because she was studying a different set of data…
Some of the most clear-cut cases come in Gay’s 1997 dissertation, “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics,” which copied two paragraphs almost verbatim from Palmquist and Voss.
The paragraphs—from a paper Palmquist and Voss had presented a year earlier, in 1996—do not appear in quotation marks. One is unmodified but for a handful of words, and Gay does not cite Palmquist or Voss anywhere in her dissertation
A Harvard student who did that would be liable to expulsion. But the rules are obviously different higher up.
It’s not just Gay. There have been a number of cases of prominent figures getting a pass on plagiarized work. But Gay’s case is particularly bad because the president of Harvard is supposed to be setting an example for students. How could the college possibly justify disciplinary action against students for plagiarism when its own president is guilty of it? What’s the argument for telling students not to cheat?
Cheat and you too can become the president of Harvard.
Jeff Bargholz says
A black lesbian like Gay will never be held to account.
CowboyUp says
She’s got the first two DEI boxes checked, but she’s married to a guy. Then again, who knows what kind of marriage she has, so she still could be a lesbian. She sure gives off the vibe, not that I really care. It’s her other faults that concern me.
Victor L. says
“If Harvard’s President Were a Student, She Would Have Been Expelled”.
correction:
If Harvard’s President Were a Student and White, She Would Have Been Expelled.
RAM says
.Iranians and other Muslims who are white also get a free pass.
CowboyUp says
Well, if anybody is still wondering if claudine was an affirmative action hire, here’s your confirmation. The list of dem politicians and buraucrats that plagiarize is long and distinguished, so of course, it’s no big deal anymore, unless an identified conservative does it. These elite institutions are wrecking their own brand though.
I got accused of plagiarism on a paper once in college, but I took it as a compliment. I had all my sources, notes, and drafts, so it was easy to prove I didn’t. The professor still went back and gigged me down to a lousy grade on spelling and grammar, much of it legit, much of it not, or at least arguable. I saw his original grading, so I know what he did, but it had to be well written, or he wouldn’t have accused me of plagiarism.
Kasandra says
Yesterday I saw an interview with one of the people whose work she plagiarized. She was a black female professor whose name escapes me. She said that had Gay been a white male she would already have been gone.
Frank b says
You can’t make this up…….
If you would’ve told me, this was possible a few years ago, with cancelled couture and micro aggression I would have laughed until I turned into a lesbian
Una Salus says
Power never takes a back step is all Harvard students need to understand about their paper chase.
You come in here with a head full of mush and you leave thinking like an activist.