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Harvard President Claudine Gay Hit With Six New Charges Of Plagiarism

[WFB] Half of Gay’s published works now implicated in growing scandal

Harvard University president Claudine Gay was hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism on Monday in a complaint filed with the university, breathing fresh life into a scandal that has embroiled her nascent presidency and pushing the total number of allegations near 50.

Seven of Gay’s 17 published works have already been impacted by the scandal, but the new charges, which have not been previously reported, extend into an eighth: In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of material verbatim from another scholar, David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

That article, "The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California," includes some of the most extreme and clear-cut cases of plagiarism yet. At one point, Gay borrows four sentences from Canon’s 1999 book, Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts, without quotation marks and with only minor semantic tweaks. She does not cite Canon anywhere in or near the passage, though he does appear in the bibliography.

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-02 07:31|| || Front Page|| [37 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 ...The best part of all of this is that Dr. Gay is so bound and determined to hold on no matter what comes bubbling up and the Board does not dare fire her.

Schadenfreude: it's what's for breakfast.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-01-02 07:49|| 2024-01-02 07:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I can see Ward Churchill suing to get his job back...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-02 08:12|| 2024-01-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Hitler's (first use of Hitler this year) Bismarck took a lot of hits before being dead in the water.

Had to be scuttled. I see parallels.

Posted by Bobby 2024-01-02 08:14|| 2024-01-02 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 She has a red Swingline stapler on her desk.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-01-02 08:30|| 2024-01-02 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 also and probably more important is a data issue in a 2001 paper

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-president-refused-to-turn-over-data-after-academics-challenged-methodology-used-in-research-report/ar-AA1m6M7C

Posted by lord garth 2024-01-02 09:27|| 2024-01-02 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course she will sue. Harvard should counter sue for misrepresentation and fraud in her application. The problem is the governing board who are no better than her.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-02 10:39|| 2024-01-02 10:39|| Front Page Top

#7 If Gay sued, Harvard might settle for a bunch of $$$ to avoid the discovery phase.

Posted by lord garth 2024-01-02 12:18|| 2024-01-02 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Golden parachute and an NDA is the way to go here. Tell her to take the money, shut up and go away.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-01-02 12:48|| 2024-01-02 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 This is all about what big dem bundler will agree to take her on in a do-nothing job at the same or higher salary with the same lifetime bennies.

It might be proving uncomfortably difficult.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-02 13:17|| 2024-01-02 13:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Out...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-02 13:43|| 2024-01-02 13:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Well... Bye.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-01-02 14:37|| 2024-01-02 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Those who hired her and went public with backing her need to resign also, ASAP.

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2024-01-02 15:47|| 2024-01-02 15:47|| Front Page Top

#13 OK, the plagiarism thing is skeevy, but given that she is a Person of Obvious Kolor (POOK*), shouldn't we be applauding the fact that she can read and write? And not only can she read and write, but she does it at grade level, which is better than most of the kids in our big city schools.

We should also acknowledge that because of slavery, POOKs have historically been denied access to university positions where they could plagiarize other people's works, so there is kind of a reparations angle.

Previously, the alleged copying was no big deal. A cynical person might wonder if all the noise about plagiarism now is smoke to cover the really stupid things Gay has been saying in public. Pass the schadenfreude, please!

* Kolor is spelled with a 'K' in order to decolonize the word because English is racist.

Posted by SteveS 2024-01-02 17:26|| 2024-01-02 17:26|| Front Page Top

#14 We should also acknowledge that because of slavery

...which legally ended over a hundred and fifty years ago and the only living American individuals who suffered slavery were white service members who were captured by the Japanese in the Philippine in '42 and subsequently shipped across the empire for labor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-02 17:52|| 2024-01-02 17:52|| Front Page Top

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