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“Her answers were absolutely pathetic and devoid of the moral leadership and academic integrity required of the President of Harvard.”
The latest accusation claimed that Gay lifted nearly half a page of material verbatim from David Cannon’s 1999 book “Race Redistricting and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts” for her own 2001 article, the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon stated.
Cannon, however, denied that Gay’s use of his work was plagiarism.
“I am not at all concerned about the passages,” he told the Washington Free Beacon.
“Both Dr. Gay and I are defining basic terms such as Section 2 and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, covered jurisdictions, and bailout. Good definitions of these terms would have to use similar language or they would not be accurate!” he insisted.
“This isn’t even close to an example of academic plagiarism.”
Here’s how we got here:
Harvard first faced calls to fire Gay after she stood by the more than 30 Harvard student groups that published a letter claiming they held Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
Gay faced further calls to step down after disastrous House testimony on antisemitism, in which the embattled president told Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) that calls for genocide against the Jews would only violate Harvard’s rules depending on their “context.”
Harvard announced Gay would remain president despite the school losing a reported $1 billion in donations.
Journalists Christopher Rufo and Chris Brunet revealed that the embattled president plagiarized sections of her doctoral thesis, Harvard had previously covered up its own probe and threatened The Post when it looked into plagiarism allegations against Gay.
Former Professor Carol Swain, whose work Gay is accused of plagiarizing, said Harvard lacks the courage to fire “its first black president.” She added that Gay is “getting a free pass.”
Billionaire Bill Ackman claims that Harvard won’t fire her because it would look like it was “kowtowing” to him.
Four doxxing trucks are parked outside Gay’s home, calling her “the best friend Hamas ever had.”
The embattled prez was hit with six new plagiarism allegations on Monday, January 1, 2024.
She was set to stepped down the following day.
The complaint also included additional flags from Gay’s dissertation, which already received three corrections due to “instances of inadequate citation.”
The new charges were brought by the same anonymous professor who previously accused Gay of plagiarism to The Post.
The Harvard Crimson backed Gay over the weekend — arguing that she may have plagiarized in the past, but should not have to step down from her post.
“To be clear, sloppiness of this kind is unbefitting of a Harvard president,” the article said of the allegations about Gay’s academic work.
“A sober-minded assessment of the plagiarism charges indicates that Gay’s behavior constitutes plagiarism, but since the errors do not appear intentional, they do not warrant her resignation,” the editorial board hedged.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/embattled-harvard-president-claudine-gay-set-to-resign-after-plagiarism-antisemitism-scandals/