Harvard president plagiarized her PhD thesis

This is not complicated. She gave a lame statement saying "Anti-Semitism is bad and not acceptable", yet she couldn't simply state "Anti-Semitism is NOT ACCEPTABLE on ANY level at ANYTIME or ANYWHERE", and the calling for "Jewish genocide" by Harvard students is "NOT ACCEPTABLE" and in fact violates the schools policies regarding harassment and bullying.

There is NO "context" to hateful speech whatsoever. Hateful speech is hateful speech, and if directed toward students at any academic institution should call for immediate removal and termination of enrollment.

Just an outright law, Ginamator.

"...they found a few instances of incorrect citations among hundreds."

There were whole paragraphs lifted from another work. Not incorrect citations. To claim that really shoots down your credibility. You can do better than this.

Thanks for providing the paragraph at issue. Again, not a good look--there's way too much similarity between what she wrote and the original source. But also, it doesn't seem like it was an intellectually important part of her thesis, merely a description of background work. It's problematic enough that it merits fixing and an apology from Dr. Gay, but not so substantive that we can say her dissertation was plagiarized.

Not surprised. AA is much worse at the PhD level. If you have the right race and gender, you will get a tenure track offer right after becoming a PhD candidate. Your advisor will beg you for finishing research and dissertation while you already move on to be paid by Ivy League level schools. Grades don’t matter. Research doesn’t matter. Dissertation is almost optional.

Remember that anyone can post anything here. No qualifications necessary.

I love how this thread began as a right wing troll with shoddy half-evidence and has continued to devolve into an alt-right conspiracy session. Typical of this site, sadly.

She seems like the type to constantly b!tch about the evil of white men and how the US is such a "systemically racist" country. Why doesn't she go back to Haiti, where her parents are from, then?

Gay’s hole gets deeper and deeper

nypost.com

Ivy cover-up

@isareport

Claudine Gay was probed by Harvard over possible plagiarism — but the college kept it a secret and even hired lawyers to protect her.

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I get what you’re saying , but given the situation in Palestine, some occasional rude statements , and hateful comments on campus should not be prioritized over a senseless , barbaric war that is leaving thousands of children dead and millions homeless. The US tax dollars are supporting this.

Being a right wing site can you guys ever get it correct!

businessinsider.com

Harvard President Claudine Gay is cleared of plagiarism accusations but will have to correct past articles for citation issues

Hannah Getahun

Harvard President Claudine Gay was accused of plagiarizing after a conservative website published a story highlighting multiple instances where Gay's writing matched up with other academic articles.

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OP....always hilarious to see how predictable the kind of posters who go out of their way to find and post threads like these on a running forum...

President Gay is not a distinguished scholar using objective bibliometrics. She has an h-index that is well below what is typically required for someone to be promoted to full professor. President Gay is not a distinguished administrator as she has spent her entire career promulgating the DIE cult (diversity, inclusion, and equity), which violates every fabric of the meritocratic ethos that one would expect from Harvard.

the real issue here is

1) the character of an academic who criticized the genocide committed by Israel doesn't make it less than a genocide

2) she got off light not because she was a minority, but because she's elite faculty and nothing bad can possibly happen to them.

By contrast, I was falsely accused of lifting as an undergrad, and when the tenured prof had to admit she had not one shred of evidence, she retaliated by finding other reasons to grade-deflate me, making it plain I could not risk taking her class for a grade.

These people can be very arrogant scumbags. They really believe they are better than everyone else. Not all, but the status naturally attracts bigots and narcissists.

Rufio and Elise Stefanik both have degrees from Harvard.

What could you mean by

you have quoted above how conservative Gay’s politics are. The only way to parse your analysis is that you think African Americans and woke are continuous and indistinguishable?

This is an interesting facet of US political culture. Obama and Van Jones have both come out AGAINST “woke”, as has famous African American professor and linguist John McWhorter among others. And yet….. the consensus seems to read even conservative African American bodies as inherently “woke”!

This number is highly discipline dependent, and elite schools will prioritize quality over quantity.

I think LRC and many others are sight-restricted by their bigotry from understanding that everything about Gay (and Magill) reveals they have liberal-conservative views. You are attacking them from a place of identity politics not on the basis of their beliefs or pursuits.

The radical left has absolutely no institutional power or influence at elite universities or corporations in the US. We should all try read beyond the hate screeds and radio scream.

These analyses are as mistaken as calling Elon Musk “woke” for selling electric cars.