[tomder55]

Harvard President Claudine Gay is on the hot seat ;or rather was on the hot seat for plagiarizing her doctoral thesis . She lifted whole sections verbatim . This of course violates Harvard's standards . Well maybe not

Because instead of dismissing her . She is going to be allowed to make corrections on the thesis to comply with Harvard's "research standards "

You may wonder what her thesis was . It is called 'Taking charge: Black electoral success and the redefinition of American politics'

She has a history of plagiarizing .
Now, a look at her academic work has scholars saying Gay "definitely" plagiarized almost 20 authors in four of her 11 peer-reviewed academic papers, including her doctoral dissertation.

Harvard president 'definitely' plagiarized in peer-reviewed academic papers, scholars say: report (yahoo.com)

Though Gay does provide a reference to the original authors, she uses their verbatim language, with a few trivial synonym substitutions, without providing quotation marks. This constitutes a clear violation of Harvard’s policy, which states: “When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words. It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation.”

Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist? (christopherrufo.com)

She will be allowed to make corrections for "instances of inadequate citation" and announced that Gay would request "four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications," .

Harvard Says President Claudine Gay Did Not Violate Plagiarism Rules (businessinsider.com)


Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'

'Lobachevsky ' (Tom Lehrer)

She is also under fire for comments she made during Congressional testimony ..

Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.)

“At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?”

Gay

“It can be, depending on the context,”


Under what context is calling for genocide acceptable was not explained.

She has since apologized after her comment drew criticism,
Faculty at Harvard rallied to her cause.

As Harvard’s Governing Boards Meet, More than 700 Faculty Urge Against Gay’s Removal, Citing University Independence | News | The Harvard Crimson (thecrimson.com)


Why would any Jew attend such an institution ?

Anti-Israel Harvard protesters gang up on Jewish student (youtube.com)

[jlisenbe]

“At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?”

Gay

“It can be, depending on the context,”


Under what context is calling for genocide acceptable was not explained.

That was really stunning, or at least it would have been in a more sane period of time. But she's in favor of abortion and TG, so all will be swept under the rug.

[tomder55]

Harvard’s governing fellows last week decided to stand behind President Claudine Gay despite her disastrous congressional testimony and multiple allegations of plagiarism. In a statement, they dismissed the latter as “a few instances of inadequate citation” that constituted “no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct.”
I write as one of the scholars whose work Ms. Gay plagiarized. She failed to credit me for sections from my 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress” and an article I published in 1997, “Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996.” The damage to me extends beyond the two instances of plagiarism identified by researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet.
“Black Faces, Black Interests” received numerous accolades and recognitions. In 1994 it was selected one of Library Choice Journal’s seven outstanding academic books and won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and the V.O. Key Award for political science. It won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for its scholarship on Congress in 1995. My book has been cited in court opinions, including by U.S. Supreme Court justices in Johnson v. De Grandy (1994) and Georgia v. Ashcroft (2003).
Ms. Gay’s damage to me is aggravated because her early work was in the area where my research is considered seminal. Her scholarship on black congressional representation, electoral districting and descriptive representation builds on terrain where I plowed the ground.
When one follows in the footsteps of a more senior scholar, one is expected to acknowledge the latter’s contribution to the field and how one’s own research and ideas refute, affirm or expand knowledge in the area. Ms. Gay ignored the substantive importance of my research, which she should have acknowledged and engaged. A single citation or two wouldn’t usually be considered intellectually honest.
When scholars aren’t cited adequately or their work is ignored, it harms them because academic stature is determined by how often other researchers cite your work. Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution. Many of those whose work she pilfered aren’t as incensed as I am. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.
Even aside from the documented instances of plagiarism, Ms. Gay’s work wouldn’t normally have earned tenure in the Ivy League. Tenure at a top-tier institution normally demands ground-breaking originality; her work displays none. In a world where the privilege of diversity is king, Ms. Gay was able to parlay mediocre research into tenure and administrative advancement at what was once considered a world-class university.
Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard. This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who had to work for everything they earned.
Ms. Swain is a senior fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture and a co-author of “The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court’s Decision to Remove Race from College Admissions Criteria will Doom Diversity Programs.”

Claudine Gay and My Scholarship - WSJ

Here is the real reason they won't condemn Gay and defend Swain's scholarship

Dr. Carol M. Swain on X: "I stand with President Trump and I pray that other Americans from all walks of life will find the courage to condemn the totalitarian measures being used to crush him and other constitutionalists Americans. #PresidentTrump #raid #Orwell #totalitarianism https://t.co/0bbDnYDt3J" / X (twitter.com)

[jlisenbe]

Yep. Carol Swain has a number of conservative views and so will be aggressively ignored. She refuses to toe the line concerning how a black scholar is supposed to think.

In November 2015, Vanderbilt University students started a petition asking university administrators to halt Swain's teaching and require her to attend diversity training sessions. The students accused Swain of becoming "synonymous with bigotry, intolerance, and unprofessionalism".[34][35] Swain responded by calling the students "sad and pathetic, in the sense that they're college students and they should be open to hearing more than one viewpoint."[34][35] The petition garnered over 1,000 signatures within days,[34] before changing to asking administrators to only suspend Swain and require all professors to attend diversity training.[36] In response, a pro-Swain petition was started by her supporters, who suggested the student petition was "reminiscent of China's Cultural Revolution, when student Red Guards made false and ridiculous accusations against their professors".[37] Nicholas S. Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, issued a statement saying that while Swain's views are not the same as the university's, the university is committed to free speech and academic freedom.[38]

[tomder55]

I strongly agree with her position "that they're college students and they should be open to hearing more than one viewpoint"

the student petition was "reminiscent of China's Cultural Revolution,

The whole woke intolerance movement is indeed similar to Mao's cultural revolution as I have often argued on this board.

[jlisenbe]

"that they're college students and they should be open to hearing more than one viewpoint"

And it has to go beyond simply hearing more than one POV. Young people should be taught to think properly and arrive at good conclusions. Don't make up your mind and then examine the evidence. Pay no attention to what idiots in Hollywood believe.

[tomder55]

I may sound like a get off my lawn geezer . But I worry about the new generation . They don't have life skills because they bury their noses in their cell phones. 'Menu anxiety " ......seriously ?

Gen Z suffers from 'menu anxiety' while dining out, study finds. What is it? (moneycontrol.com)

They believe unquestioned what they are taught . What is worse is that they have herd mentality . They take to the streets only in strength in numbers ....ala BLM or this anti-Israeli mind set .

Two-Thirds of Americans 18-24 Believe Jews Are Oppressors | National Review

[tomder55]

Claudine Gay resigned yesterday in the wake of multiple charges of plagiarism .

Don't feel sad for her . She gets to retain her salary .

Claudine Gay set to keep $800K salary despite resigning (nypost.com)

Here is her resignation letter . Not sure which part of it she lifted from other's work

Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation letter: Read here (wbaltv.com)

[jlisenbe]

The great disgrace for Harvard is that she was not fired outright. Her being allowed to retain her salary is a disgrace and a vote in favor of antisemitism.

Not sure which part of it she lifted from other's work

That made me laugh out loud!

[jlisenbe]

Entirely predictable. She resigns due to making comments that can easily be construed as racist and anti-Semitic. To support herself, she says her accusers are to blame. In answer to a question about anti-Semitic calls for genocide, she responded as follows.

Gay responded, "The rules around bullying and harassment are quite specific and if the context in which that language is used amounts to bullying and harassment, then we take -- we take action against it."

Addressing her testimony in the op-ed, Gay, Harvard's first Black female president, wrote that she "fell into a well-laid trap" at the hearing.

"I neglected to clearly articulate that calls for the genocide of Jewish people are abhorrent and unacceptable and that I would use every tool at my disposal to protect students from that kind of hate," she wrote.

After the hearing, Gay, who was named Harvard's president in 2023, faced accusations of plagiarism in her past academic work.

In a Dec. 12, 2023, statement, the Harvard Corporation, one of the school's governing boards, announced that Gay requested an independent review of her published work in light of the accusations. The results revealed a few instances of "inadequate citation" but "no violation of Harvard's standards of research misconduct," the statement read.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fo...ed/ar-AA1mqSZS

[tomder55]

CNN Matt Egan (at about 3 minute mark)

We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She has been accused of sort of more like copying other peoples writings without attribution. So it's been more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone's ideas.


Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay to resign - YouTube


If only there was a word for copying other people's writing without attribution.

[jlisenbe]

If only there was a word for copying other people's writing without attribution.

Yeah. You'd think someone could come up with one. Maybe finding a word for taking someone else's property and claiming it's your own could be addressed at the same time?

[tomder55]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali nails it

DEI is the programmatic implementation of an intolerant progressive agenda that views the existing structures of government, education, media, and industry as deeply unjust. It presents these institutions in the light of a hierarchical “intersectional” model of the oppressors and the oppressed. The ultimate oppressor is white, male, and straight. Blacks, women, gays and others are defined as their victims. To redress these past wrongs, DEI is supposed to design new structures of “positive” discrimination, or “affirmative action”.

This is how individuals such as Claudine Gay secured promotion to the commanding heights not just of the Ivy League, but of many other august institutions. Merit, qualifications, the ability to lead — all these criteria were cast aside as expressions of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy”.


The blame for this, of course, cannot be solely pinned on the individuals who have since benefited from DEI. As Gay ascended the ladder of academic preferment, her ambition was central but hardly sufficient. Rather, she did so with the complicity of a network of gatekeepers: the admissions offices of Princeton and Stanford; the peer reviewers who overlooked her plagiarism; the Harvard committees that promoted her through the various ranks of the professorship; and, finally, the members of the Harvard Corporation who deemed her the most suitable candidate for the position of president.
Thanks to their collaboration, and the fall-out following their exposure, the truth about DEI has been thrust into the mainstream. As an acronym, it still holds, but not in the way they intend. In reality, the D stands for the degradation of the standards once upheld at institutions such as Harvard; the E stands for their erasure; and the I stands not only for the indoctrination that follows, but also intimidation.

Claudine Gay and the mafia of mediocrity - UnHerd

[jlisenbe]

Great article and quite accurate. I recall listening to a video of Gay's testimony and thinking that she was none too bright for giving such a non-committal answer to a question about Jewish genocide which she should have anticipated coming and been well prepared for.

[tomder55]

Scary to think about how many of our leaders and influencers come out out this garbage dump institution and like minded egg head factories.

A Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital is seeking to retract or correct dozens of papers authored by four of its top researchers — including the hospital’s CEO — following a probe into allegations of data falsification.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has already initiated six retractions to papers and 31 others are in the process of being corrected, the hospital’s research integrity officer, Dr. Barrett Rollins

Harvard teaching hospital to retract papers by top researchers (nypost.com)

The allegations come amid increased scrutiny of scholarly work across elite higher education. Former Stanford President Marc T. Tessier-Lavigne resigned this summer following allegations of research misconduct first publicized by the Stanford Daily. Around the same time, Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino was accused of data fabrication, leading the University to begin a formal review into her tenure.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Researchers Accused of Manipulating Data | News | The Harvard Crimson (thecrimson.com)


Instead of cleaning up it's act as other universities have attempted ;Harvard goes into damage control ;only holding those responsible to account when they have no other choice.
When investigating President Gay's plagerism they responded that they found “a few instances of inadequate citation” in Gay’s work .

Harvard president to amend dissertation following new allegations of ‘inadequate citations’ | WBUR News


These fraudsters are going to have a harder time getting away with publishing garbage as AI is used as a tool to cross reference research.

[jlisenbe]

It's the same thing that can be seen in many ways. The concept of truth has been, for many people, replaced with opinion or with whatever it is they desire to be true. A man can be a woman and two men can be "married". It was seen on this site on a number of occasions. And when questioned, as we have seen with Dr. Gay, they quickly discover that an honest answer could be fatal, so instead the theme is to evade, evade, evade, rather frequently by firing accusations against the questioner. It is a thoroughly dishonest tactic and should be disgusting to everyone. And nowhere is it seen more frequently than in the media.

[tomder55]

The concept of truth has been, for many people, replaced with opinion or with whatever it is they desire to be true

I recall Carl Bernstein once said that the job of the journalist was to find "the best obtainable version of the truth " I don't even know what that caveat means . But judging from his body of work ;it appears to mean the best obtainable version of the truth to support a preconceived narrative.