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Title: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 02, 2024, 02:19:40 pm
Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges: Report
Total number of plagiarism allegations against Harvard President near 50
By Jeffrey Clark Fox News
Published January 2, 2024 8:05am EST


Harvard President Claudine Gay is facing six new plagiarism charges in another development of an unfolding academic scandal that has rocked one of America's most prestigious universities.

The new charges were first reported on by The Washington Free Beacon and included this claim: "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." The total number of plagiarism allegations against Gay are near 50, or "half of Gay's published works," according to the Free Beacon.

Some Harvard students have called on Gay to resign following weeks of allegations regarding her handling of campus antisemitism, as well the mounting accusations of plagiarism.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-president-claudine-gay-faces-six-new-plagiarism-charges-report
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges: Report
Post by: Wingnut on January 02, 2024, 02:23:54 pm
Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges: Report
Total number of plagiarism allegations against Harvard President near 50
By Jeffrey Clark Fox News
Published January 2, 2024 8:05am EST


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https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-president-claudine-gay-faces-six-new-plagiarism-charges-report

With Six You Get Eggroll and get to keep your job.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 02, 2024, 06:13:33 pm
https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1742247250116366606
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 02, 2024, 06:15:54 pm
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1742245997344907638
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Bigun on January 02, 2024, 06:16:05 pm
https://twitter.com/thecrimson/status/1742243918190707047
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Bigun on January 02, 2024, 06:17:20 pm
OOPS! I guess I will never learn to look before I post.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 02, 2024, 06:18:10 pm
I have heard that there are a lot of students and student groups creating legal documention to protect themselves via what they are calling "Gay Clause".  Basically creating protection on the academia level of any consequences of plagerism, via perceived or not.

This pretty much completes the rot of higher education starting at the head.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Wingnut on January 02, 2024, 06:37:02 pm
Paging MIT President Sally Kornbluth to the white courtesy phone......
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: cato potatoe on January 02, 2024, 06:54:26 pm
Her resignation poses a challenge for the Board of Overseers.  The replacement absolutely must be a black lesbian, unless they can find a transsexual muslim.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 02, 2024, 06:58:21 pm
I have heard that there are a lot of students and student groups creating legal documention to protect themselves via what they are calling "Gay Clause".  Basically creating protection on the academia level of any consequences of plagerism, via perceived or not.

This pretty much completes the rot of higher education starting at the head.

How is that supposed to work?
I plagiarized someone's work, but you can't hold it against me because I created a document that says so?
Is that like little kids who think you can't see them because their eyes are closed?
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 02, 2024, 06:58:54 pm
The Harvard Crimson
@thecrimson
#BREAKINGNEWS HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY
https://t.co/LjDRMswc0k
From thecrimson.com
12:58 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 02, 2024, 07:02:55 pm
How is that supposed to work?
I plagiarized someone's work, but you can't hold it against me because I created a document that says so?
Is that like little kids who think you can't see them because their eyes are closed?

Yep, and thus the corner higher education has painted itself in.  Kind of a if you can't hold yourself to standard of honor, how can rightfully and maybe legally expect that of students.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: The_Reader_David on January 02, 2024, 07:10:00 pm
I have heard that there are a lot of students and student groups creating legal documention to protect themselves via what they are calling "Gay Clause".  Basically creating protection on the academia level of any consequences of plagerism, via perceived or not.

This pretty much completes the rot of higher education starting at the head.

Might work at Harvard, since it is that formerly venerable institution that lowered its standards to not bounce a known plagiarist from its presidency.  If anyone tries it here at K-State, I'll sneer at them and ask them whether they think they're at Harvard.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 02, 2024, 07:12:16 pm
I just wonder how much it cost Harvard to get her to resign...
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 02, 2024, 07:14:17 pm
CNN tries to explain away what Gay did.
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1742252559543193991

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
She copied entire sections and grafs from other scholars academic papers. CNN should stick to doing shots on the air. It's the only thing they are honest about.
1:53 PM · Jan 2, 2024

Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 02, 2024, 07:17:19 pm
This is almost the perfect snapshot of the central problem with our basic institutions in this country. Money, lives, and futures on the line and the woke Left plays infantile preschool games, and the people continue to cater to and vote for it.

Forgive me if my perspective leans towards going Galt, getting out of the system, living in the underground economy, and letting it collapse under it's own weight.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: roamer_1 on January 02, 2024, 07:21:45 pm
Forgive me if my perspective leans towards going Galt, getting out of the system, living in the underground economy, and letting it collapse under it's own weight.

Such a notion is only prescient.  :beer:
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 02, 2024, 07:25:11 pm
CNN tries to explain away what Gay did.
"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."


Rancid Word Salad at its worst.  There's not enough spicy ranch dressing on earth to cover the toe-jam flavoring on that one.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 02, 2024, 07:28:31 pm
CNN tries to explain away what Gay did.

 :silly: His 'explanation' is literally the definition of plagiarism. The words she 'copied' contain the very ideas that she stole and did not attribute.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 02, 2024, 07:36:02 pm
Claudine Gay QUITS as Harvard President but fails to mention antisemitism testimony OR plagiarism claims in sour resignation letter where she says she's been victim of racism

    Gay has been accused of plagiarism and was slammed for Dec 5 testimony
    The school stood by her initially despite a wave of public backlash 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12919893/Harvard-President-Claudine-Gay-resign-plagiarism-claims-disastrous-antisemitism-testimony.html
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 02, 2024, 07:38:36 pm
Claudine Gay QUITS as Harvard President but fails to mention antisemitism testimony OR plagiarism claims in sour resignation letter where she says she's been victim of racism

   

Geez when it all collapses, always play the race card.  Who didn't see that coming a mile away. /s

She'll have Rev. Al and Jesse on camera with her in no time.  And a $100M lawsuit, that she'll settle for $10M.  Watch for it.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: GtHawk on January 02, 2024, 08:06:05 pm
How is that supposed to work?
I plagiarized someone's work, but you can't hold it against me because I created a document that says so?
Is that like little kids who think you can't see them because their eyes are closed?
Maybe it's the rubber defense, you know like littles kids 'bounces of me and sticks to you'? It seems that each successive generation has less integrity or responsibility and feeeeels they are owed something without ever doing a damned thing to 'earn' it.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 02, 2024, 08:13:21 pm
Geez when it all collapses, always play the race card.  Who didn't see that coming a mile away. /s

Yep.  And her (interim) replacement is a WHITE MALE, so that just proves it was all racism, the Patriarchy, and LGBTQIaphobia.  Or whatever.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 02, 2024, 08:48:40 pm
Here's the guy who led the charge to get rid of the plagiarist.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742010916332343304
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 02, 2024, 08:52:14 pm
Resignation letter from Harvard president Claudine Gay

Released pubically 01/02/2024

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-read-her-full-letter
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 02, 2024, 08:52:16 pm
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
She only resigned the president’s job. Harvard is letting her go back to being an academic, despite the fact her academic credentials are bogus due to her serial plagiarism. That tells you everything about Harvard: it has zero intention of getting rid of DEI.
2:54 PM · Jan 2, 2024

Tom Cotton
@TomCottonAR
But Harvard is letting Claudine Gay remain as a professor, even though she was plainly never qualified to be either professor or president.
So it seems Harvard remains incapable of shame.
3:16 PM · Jan 2, 2024

Tom Cotton
@TomCottonAR
The serial plagiarism was bad enough.
But pushing racist and Marxist "diversity" policies while tolerating antisemitism on campus was even worse.
Harvard should be ashamed and should do much, much better with its next choice for president.
2:48 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 02, 2024, 08:57:22 pm
Resignation letter from Harvard president Claudine Gay

Released pubically 01/02/2024

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-read-her-full-letter
"and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

?????

Has she even provided even one specific example?  Baloney.

We really need to start calling out these bogus race card accusations.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on January 02, 2024, 09:55:08 pm
Being called out for cheating is not racist.  Not being called out for cheating is intellectual and professional fraud.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 02, 2024, 09:58:01 pm
Being called out for cheating is not racist.  Not being called out for cheating is intellectual and professional fraud.

This level of Virtue Signaling rivals the illumination of the Bat Signal.   Holy Race Card Bat Man!!!!!!
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 02, 2024, 10:22:45 pm
Being called out for cheating is not racist.  Not being called out for cheating is intellectual and professional fraud.

It's funny how the more the woke Left try to make things 'equitable' the more it looks like monarchical aristocracy.

If we pesky peasants would just do what we're told and kneel when we're supposed to.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Wingnut on January 02, 2024, 10:31:04 pm
In what world when you are fired or quit, are you not , asked to hand over your badge, locked out of the computer system, and escorted out of the building by security?   Oh wait, what was I thinking.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Fishrrman on January 02, 2024, 10:35:22 pm
"HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY"
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Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: 240B on January 02, 2024, 10:39:36 pm

It's funny how the more the woke Left try to make things 'equitable' the more it looks like monarchical aristocracy.

If we pesky peasants would just do what we're told and kneel when we're supposed to.
The Left is making or is attempting to make Black people into super citizens, an aristocracy of sorts. Not because they care about the so-called "Black Plight". They do it to enhance their own feelings of superiority and build their power on the backs of criminals and thugs.

There are over 100 races in America. Only one out of the hundred gets an automatic free-pass no matter what they do. They are 'above the law' in every sense. They are not expected to observe normal rules of society that every one else lives by, because they are deemed 'TOO STUPID' and 'TOO PRIMITIVE' by the Left to be expected to behave like a normal person. I would trade all of my 'White Privilege' for just a piece of the 'Black Privilege' Black people live with day to day.

If you want to know who rules over you, look to the people that you are "not allowed" to criticize.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 02, 2024, 11:08:19 pm
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Greg Price
@greg_price11

First black female president of Harvard: Serial plagiarist who resigned after the shortest tenure in school history.

First black female SCOTUS Justice: Doesn't know what a woman is.

First black female VP: Speaks in world salads and has the lowest approval rating of any VP ever.

It's almost like appointing people based solely on their race and gender is a bad idea.


5:18 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Bigun on January 02, 2024, 11:37:50 pm
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
She only resigned the president’s job. Harvard is letting her go back to being an academic, despite the fact her academic credentials are bogus due to her serial plagiarism. That tells you everything about Harvard: it has zero intention of getting rid of DEI.
2:54 PM · Jan 2, 2024

Tom Cotton
@TomCottonAR
But Harvard is letting Claudine Gay remain as a professor, even though she was plainly never qualified to be either professor or president.
So it seems Harvard remains incapable of shame.
3:16 PM · Jan 2, 2024

Tom Cotton
@TomCottonAR
The serial plagiarism was bad enough.
But pushing racist and Marxist "diversity" policies while tolerating antisemitism on campus was even worse.
Harvard should be ashamed and should do much, much better with its next choice for president.
2:48 PM · Jan 2, 2024

I recall someone (I think it was you @mountaineer ) recently suggesting that all future Harvard degrees be printed on Charmin so they would at least have some value. A suggestion I heartily support!
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 03, 2024, 01:31:58 am
 Harvard's Claudine Gay set to keep her high six-figure annual salary despite resigning as university president

By Social Links for Selim Algar
Published Jan. 2, 2024, 7:20 p.m. ET


Harvard President Claudine Gay will likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator.

She won’t be leading the Crimson, but green shouldn’t be a problem.

Outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay will still likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator.

Political Science professor Gay — who stepped down amid a tempest of allegations she did not do enough to combat antisemitism and academic plagiarism Tuesday — will now return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty.

Prior to being named president just six months ago, Gay earned $879,079 as a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to records published by the university.

Her new position was not specified Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary comparable with what she previously received — if not higher.

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https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/claudine-gay-set-to-keep-800k-salary-despite-resigning/
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 03, 2024, 01:54:04 am
I recall someone (I think it was you mountaineer) suggesting that all future Harvard degrees be printed on Charmin so they would at least have some value. A suggestion I heartily support!
Yes, it was I, and this whole fiasco serves to reinforce my view that Harvard is a joke of a university.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Hoodat on January 03, 2024, 01:57:36 am
Being called out for cheating is not racist.  Not being called out for cheating is intellectual and professional fraud.

She lost support once it was revealed that she plagiarized from a white guy.

          (https://polisci.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1053/2016/07/Canon-_0-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Hoodat on January 03, 2024, 01:59:18 am
Harvard President Claudine Gay will likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator.

That word "earn".  I don't think it means what the author thinks it means.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Wingnut on January 03, 2024, 03:22:39 am
Hamas is reeling after losing two of their most cherished leaders on the same day: military commander Saleh al-Arouri, and Harvard President Claudine Gay.
-The Bee.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: cato potatoe on January 03, 2024, 11:18:15 am
In all seriousness, I do believe Karen Jean-Pair should be next in line.  She has an MPA from Columbia.  So what if Turnitin says her thesis was 90% cut-n-pasted from Angela Davis?
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 03, 2024, 02:09:55 pm
Ibram X. Kendi, Other Woke Activists Rage over Claudine Gay Resigning as Harvard President: ‘Racist Mobs’

Hardcore woke activists raged on Tuesday in response to the news that Claudine Gay was resigning from her position.

As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, Gay finally announced her resignation after weeks of battling accusations of plagiarism in the wake of her botched testimony before Congress about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses from anti-Israel activists. The report noted:

    Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into her presidency — makes her tenure as president the shortest in Harvard’s history, according to a report by the Harvard Crimson. According to a letter released by the Harvard Corporation, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Alan M. Garber will take over as interim president.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/02/ibram-x-kendi-other-woke-activists-rage-over-claudine-gay-resigning-as-harvard-president-racist-mobs/
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 03, 2024, 02:11:27 pm
Dershowitz: Gay Got What She Deserved Under Standards She Used Against Another Black Professor

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor and Newsmax Legal Analyst Alan Dershowitz stated that outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay deserved to be fired under her own standards and noted that Gay joined in on attacks on then-Winthrop House Faculty Dean Ron Sullivan, who eventually lost that position over his response to backlash over representing Harvey Weinstein.

Host Greta Van Susteren said, “What disturbs me is in her statement, if she had said, look, I made a mistake. Now I’m going to have some time to think about it. I hope others learn from what I did. I’ll be better…I would have a different view. But…she talks about her fear and the racial animus, which is exactly what was going on on the campus, only it wasn’t racial animus, it was antisemitism, but it was fear. And she only thinks of it about herself. She didn’t realize her job as the President was to care about others. It’s exactly what those students were saying…those Jewish students who were scared on that campus.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/02/dershowitz-gay-got-what-she-deserved-under-standards-she-used-against-another-black-professor/
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 03, 2024, 02:36:01 pm
The left are trying to blame racist conservative twitter for her "forced" resignation, but it was as much Harvard's own lefty faculty who made a stink about her thievery, albeit under the radar:
Quote
Alice
@AliceFromQueens
Harvard inside dope from the weekend: faculty support for Gay fading, her supporters on the defensive or mum.
V. famous senior prof usually above university politics told colleagues she has to go.
Others ready to go on record. All this *before* the latest reports.
8:33 PM · Jan 1, 2024

Alice
@AliceFromQueens
Update on my earlier scoop: Loss of faculty confidence tipped the scale. *Including many of Gay’s previous supporters.*
Made clear to the corporation & Gay herself.
Everyone knew a public faculty revolt was in no one’s interest & would end w her gone.
Adjust your priors!
2:26 PM · Jan 2, 2024

Alice
@AliceFromQueens
Why?
-Gay put faculty in an absurd position w students.
-Frustration w Gay’s lack of remorse, didn’t explain herself, come clean.
-Anger at corp for the BS investigation that initially led faculty to take her side. They felt duped.
-Institutional harm
2:42 PM · Jan 2, 2024
It simply made Harvard look bad, and that would trickle down to every Harvard faculty member. Their own academic qualifications and accomplishments could be questioned if Gay wasn't gone. Unfortunately, she isn't really gone. The corporation (board of governance) should have gotten rid of her completely, vamoose, get the hell out of Cambridge.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Wingnut on January 03, 2024, 02:45:37 pm
Someone said. "Gay's firing wasn't racist, but her hiring was."  You can't point to a less qualified candidate for President of Harvard in modern times. She was a DEI hire, and the only qualification was the color of her skin and her ability to cut n paste.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 03, 2024, 03:01:06 pm
Interesting thread from a man who led the charge (on twitter, anyway) to get rid of Gay. Lengthy, so I'll post the link, too.
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Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.

I first became concerned about Harvard  when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza, came out publicly in support of Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization, holding Israel ‘solely responsible’ for Hamas’ barbaric and heinous acts.

How could this be? I wondered.

When I saw President Gay’s initial statement about the massacre, it provided more context (!) for the student groups’ statement of support for terrorism. The protests began as pro-Palestine and then became anti-Israel.  Shortly, thereafter, antisemitism exploded on campus as protesters who violated Harvard’s own codes of conduct were emboldened by the lack of enforcement of Harvard’s rules, and kept testing the limits on how aggressive, intimidating, and disruptive they could be to Jewish and Israeli students, and the student body at large. Sadly, antisemitism remains a simmering source of hate even at our best universities among a subset of students.

A few weeks later, I went up to campus to see things with my own eyes, and listen and learn from students and faculty. I met with 15 or so members of the faculty and a few hundred students in small and large settings, and a clearer picture began to emerge.

I ultimately concluded that antisemitism was not the core of the problem, it was simply a troubling warning sign – it was the “canary in the coal mine” – despite how destructive it was in impacting student life and learning on campus. 

I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment. ...
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 03, 2024, 05:04:24 pm
Someone said. "Gay's firing wasn't racist, but her hiring was."  You can't point to a less qualified candidate for President of Harvard in modern times. She was a DEI hire, and the only qualification was the color of her skin and her ability to cut n paste.

From Gutfeld last night
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Wingnut on January 03, 2024, 05:14:34 pm
From Gutfeld last night

See, even little ole me knows not to plagiarize and not take credit for lifting from other people.  That make me smarter than the President of Harvard.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: catfish1957 on January 03, 2024, 05:22:11 pm
See, even little ole me knows not to plagiarize and not take credit for lifting from other people.  That make me smarter than the President of Harvard.

Gutfeld was on fire last night.  Especially Block 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20pytI5_pNs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20pytI5_pNs)
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 03, 2024, 06:38:24 pm
MSNBC’s Reid: Claudine Gay a Casualty of Right’s ‘Open War on Black Progress’

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Tuesday on “The ReidOut” that Harvard University ex-president Claudine Gay was a casualty of the right’s “open war on black progress.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/03/msnbcs-reid-claudine-gay-a-casualty-of-rights-open-war-on-black-progress/
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Bigun on January 03, 2024, 06:41:38 pm
MSNBC’s Reid: Claudine Gay a Casualty of Right’s ‘Open War on Black Progress’

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Tuesday on “The ReidOut” that Harvard University ex-president Claudine Gay was a casualty of the right’s “open war on black progress.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/03/msnbcs-reid-claudine-gay-a-casualty-of-rights-open-war-on-black-progress/

Another fine example of why nearly no one watches MSNBC!
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 03, 2024, 06:54:22 pm
How is that supposed to work?
I plagiarized someone's work, but you can't hold it against me because I created a document that says so?
Is that like little kids who think you can't see them because their eyes are closed?
Great analogy!
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 03, 2024, 06:55:22 pm
MSNBC’s Reid: Claudine Gay a Casualty of Right’s ‘Open War on Black Progress’

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Tuesday on “The ReidOut” that Harvard University ex-president Claudine Gay was a casualty of the right’s “open war on black progress.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/03/msnbcs-reid-claudine-gay-a-casualty-of-rights-open-war-on-black-progress/
It's called "stealing", not "progress"--and it doesn't matter who does it.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 03, 2024, 07:07:42 pm
MSNBC’s Reid: Claudine Gay a Casualty of Right’s ‘Open War on Black Progress’

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Tuesday on “The ReidOut” that Harvard University ex-president Claudine Gay was a casualty of the right’s “open war on black progress.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/03/msnbcs-reid-claudine-gay-a-casualty-of-rights-open-war-on-black-progress/

Funnily enough, it seems to me that all this full-throated defense of Claudine Gay is evidence of the left's open war on personal responsibility.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Bigun on January 03, 2024, 07:15:27 pm
Funnily enough, it seems to me that all this full-throated defense of Claudine Gay is evidence of the left's open war on personal responsibility.

 :yowsa:  pointing-up
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mystery-ak on January 03, 2024, 07:50:03 pm
Breitbart’s Colin Madine: Harvard Students Will Fight for the Chance to Attend Class Taught by Claudine Gay

Vinnie Penn, host of the Vinnie Penn Project, was surprised to learn from Breitbart News Tech editor Colin Madine that disgraced former Harvard president Claudine Gay would be staying on as a professor. He was even more surprised at Madine’s prediction that “students will be fighting over themselves to get into the class with her.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/01/03/breitbarts-colin-madine-harvard-students-will-fight-for-the-chance-to-attend-class-taught-by-claudine-gay/
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 03, 2024, 07:52:45 pm
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“students will be fighting over themselves to get into the class with her.”
Probably because she's a very easy teacher. It's not like she's going to demand hard work and academic integrity of anyone, after all.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Hoodat on January 04, 2024, 01:41:17 am
If Harvard wants to argue that she was hired on merit, then they need to hire the people she plagiarized from.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 04, 2024, 05:13:15 pm
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J.D. Vance
@JDVance1
The most important point about Claudine Gay's plagiarism isn't that she was fired, but that she had the job--the most prestigious job in higher education--after an extremely thin record of accomplishment. Claudine Gay has never published an article--even a plagiarized one--that really mattered, or significantly advanced scholarship. She got her job not through merit, but because she checked a box. In this, she is not an outlier, but a representative of a system of education that rewards mediocrity.

Our entire elite is like this. People who got their jobs because they checked boxes, not because they achieved something amazing or accomplished something meaningful.  That is now the purpose of our elite universities, to give credentials that signal fake merit rather than rely on real excellence.

This is why you should mock the public health experts who want you to mask toddlers in their schools to stop the spread of a respiratory virus. These public health experts are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should ignore the economists who tell you that mass migration raises the wages of the working class or has no effect on housing prices, even though I've heard from multiple corporate leaders that they want more immigration in order to pay their workers lower wages. These economists are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should laugh at the foreign policy experts who will tell you that we should allow east Asia to make all of our steel, phones, and pharmaceuticals, while sending all of our weapons to a war in Eastern Europe that has little to do with our core national interests. These foreign policy experts are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should scorn the attorneys who tell you that Donald Trump committed "insurrection" and should be thrown off the ballot. They have no special legal knowledge. They are political hacks pretending to be lawyers, and they are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should question the doctors who tell you to prescribe experimental pharmaceuticals to gender-confused children. These doctors are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

The real story of Harvard is not Claudine Gay's firing but this:

You are ruled by thousands of people who are just as mediocre. Their power relies on tax advantages from the federal government, a DEI bureaucracy backed by Biden's Department of Justice, and the implicit consent of millions of Americans.

I say we withdraw that consent, and all the favors that come along with it.
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Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 04, 2024, 05:39:17 pm

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J.D. Vance
@JDVance1
The most important point about Claudine Gay's plagiarism isn't that she was fired, but that she had the job--the most prestigious job in higher education--after an extremely thin record of accomplishment. Claudine Gay has never published an article--even a plagiarized one--that really mattered, or significantly advanced scholarship. She got her job not through merit, but because she checked a box. In this, she is not an outlier, but a representative of a system of education that rewards mediocrity.

Our entire elite is like this. People who got their jobs because they checked boxes, not because they achieved something amazing or accomplished something meaningful.  That is now the purpose of our elite universities, to give credentials that signal fake merit rather than rely on real excellence.

This is why you should mock the public health experts who want you to mask toddlers in their schools to stop the spread of a respiratory virus. These public health experts are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should ignore the economists who tell you that mass migration raises the wages of the working class or has no effect on housing prices, even though I've heard from multiple corporate leaders that they want more immigration in order to pay their workers lower wages. These economists are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should laugh at the foreign policy experts who will tell you that we should allow east Asia to make all of our steel, phones, and pharmaceuticals, while sending all of our weapons to a war in Eastern Europe that has little to do with our core national interests. These foreign policy experts are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should scorn the attorneys who tell you that Donald Trump committed "insurrection" and should be thrown off the ballot. They have no special legal knowledge. They are political hacks pretending to be lawyers, and they are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

This is why you should question the doctors who tell you to prescribe experimental pharmaceuticals to gender-confused children. These doctors are not smart or accomplished, they have a credential from an institution that cares more about box checking than merit.

The real story of Harvard is not Claudine Gay's firing but this:

You are ruled by thousands of people who are just as mediocre. Their power relies on tax advantages from the federal government, a DEI bureaucracy backed by Biden's Department of Justice, and the implicit consent of millions of Americans.

I say we withdraw that consent, and all the favors that come along with it.
Last edited 10:06 AM · Jan 4, 2024
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Excellent Tweet .... er, X.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: Bigun on January 04, 2024, 07:08:22 pm
J.D Vance seems to have his head screwed on very straight.
Title: Re: Harvard President Claudine Gay faces six new plagiarism charges[resigns]
Post by: mountaineer on January 04, 2024, 08:26:07 pm
J.D Vance seems to have his head screwed on very straight.
He has been a pleasant surprise. Now if Ohio can get rid of his counterpart in the Senate, Sherrod Brown, there may be some hope.