So Claudine Gay, the embattled president of Harvard University, has resigned. This is appropriate given her less-than-stellar academic “accomplishments,” in which she has been accused of being a serial plagerizer, and her moral equivocation about whether calls for the genocide of the Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct, saying, in essence, “it depends” in her testimony before Congress.
Gay was clearly not hired because she is a first rate scholar and has the chops to lead an elite institution like Harvard. She was hired because she checks important “diversity” boxes, like being a woman, being black, being the child of immigrants, and being a useful tool to destroy a venerable institution. Plus, as Kurt Schlichter observed, she’s a “ridiculous mid-wit with smart girl glasses and a shaved head.”
She was hit with six new allegations of plagerism, which you can see here, implicating half of Gay’s published works.
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.
Harvard students who plagerize are threatened with dismissal, as described in their “Harvard University Plagiarism Policy.”
It is expected that all homework assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, theses, and examinations and any other work submitted for academic credit will be the student’s own. Students should always take great care to distinguish their own ideas and knowledge from information derived from sources. The term “sources” includes not only primary and secondary material published in print or online, but also information and opinions gained directly from other people. Quotations must be placed properly within quotation marks and must be cited fully. In addition, all paraphrased material must be acknowledged completely. Whenever ideas or facts are derived from a student’s reading and research or from a student’s own writings, the sources must be indicated (see also “Submission of the Same Work to More Than One Course” below.)
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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. Students who have been found responsible for any violation of these standards will not be permitted to submit course evaluation of the course in which the infraction occurred.
“Today, we are in a moment of remarkable and accelerating change — socially, politically, economically, and technologically,” said Gay. “So many fundamental assumptions about how the world works and how we should relate to one another are being tested.”
Like applauding Hamas and persecuting the Jews! How’s that for testing “how we should relate to one another”? Did you know that the student body at Harvard includes 3,200 Jewish undergraduate and graduate students — nearly 27 percent of the student population?
When she was inaugurated, she said,
“The courage of this University — our resolve, against all odds — to question the world as it is and imagine and make a better one: It is what Harvard was made to do,” Gay said Friday. “By continually recommitting ourselves to our central purpose, with renewed vision and vigor, we advance the prospects of humankind.”
She sounds like a female Barack Hussein Obama spouting typical cultural Marxist pablum. Was she hired to “question the world as it is”? Was she hired to change the world? Or was she hired to run the university and turn out genuine thinkers who will each find a way to make a difference in the world?
We all know the answer to that.
Frankly, that’s not “what Harvard was made to do.” Harvard, if it was “made” to do anything, was to raise up new and competent clergy. Founded in 1636 and named after its first benefactor (the Puritan clergyman John Harvard) it is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States of America.
The founders of Harvard recorded their reasons for establishing this center of learning:
After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the civil government: One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
That’s a long way from questioning the world “as it is” and imagining and making a new and better one.
Jerry Newcombe writes,
The original motto of Harvard was (in Latin): “Truth for Christ and the Church.” In the twentieth century, when Harvard became more secularized, they cut the last part of the phrase, so the motto is only “Truth” (Veritas). Of course, it was not secularism that produced Harvard, but Christianity.
Gay will remain as a professor at Harvard, probably with her $970,000 annual salary intact. But before stepping down, she made it clear that she hasn’t learned anything.
Fortunately, Gay becomes the shortest tenured president in Harvard’s history — just six months.
Good morning Dave. Can the left ever be held accountable for their disgusting actions? It’s so infuriating to listen to the remarks from their former president, then have her cry racism and then to see the other racists line up to call everyone racist that called her out for her obvious racist remarks. Is there anyone on the left with a shred of decency? Probably not!
The problem, Jim, is that there are two sets of values that define each side along the cultural divide. When you say, “decency,” you and I have a similar definition of what that means. Those on the Left have a very different definition of what that means, and it’s colored by their racism.