{"id":2123173,"date":"2023-12-12T17:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-is-getting-exactly-the-president-it-hired\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:00:05","slug":"harvard-is-getting-exactly-the-president-it-hired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-is-getting-exactly-the-president-it-hired\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard&#8217;s President is a perfect fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-is-getting-exactly-the-president-it-hired%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2123173&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>If the authors from whom you plagiarize \u2064say \u200cit\u2019s ok, well, then, it\u2019s ok!<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If the authors\u200b from whom\u2064 you plagiarize\u200c say it\u2019s ok, well, then, \u200cit\u2019s ok!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Harvard Corporation&#8217;s Support for President Claudine Gay<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That was the upshot\u2064 of the Harvard Corporation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/blog\/2023\/12\/12\/statement-from-the-harvard-corporation-our-president\/\">message<\/a> to &#8220;members of \u200bthe Harvard\u2062 Community&#8221; on Tuesday \u2063announcing their &#8220;full support&#8221; for university \u2063president\u2063 and serial plagiarist \u2063Claudine\u200c Gay. \u200dTheir note obliquely referred\u2063 to &#8220;a \u200bfew instances of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-board-announces-decision-on-president-amid-anti-semitism-and-plagiarism-scandals\/\" title=\"Harvard Board's Verdict on President Amidst Anti-Semitism and Plagiarism Controversies\">inadequate citation<\/a>&#8221; \u2062and to Gay\u2019s\u2063 &#8220;proactive&#8221; request to have them corrected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words: \u200creporters have been asking questions\u2062 about Gay\u2019s plagiarism for months, and\u2063 she and \u2062her defenders on the Harvard Corporation \u2013 which includes the former president of \u200cPrinceton University,\u200c Shirley Tilghman, and the former president of \u200bAmherst College, Biddy Martin \u2013\u2062 helped her batten down the hatches. \u2062Late in the day, five former Harvard presidents <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harvard\/status\/1734696448107643070?s=61&#038;t=6Ve-iSSEGZmZ1KVpsighKw\">joined \u200cthe chorus<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Harvard Crimson<\/i>,\u200d which limply and unenthusiastically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/12\/12\/allegations-plagiarism-gay-dissertation\/\">substantiated reports<\/a> of \u200dGay\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/every-state-is-now-a-border-state-maine-overwhelmed-by-asylum-seekers\/\" title=\"Every State Is Now a Border State \u2013 Maine Overwhelmed by Asylum Seekers\">decades-long record<\/a> of plagiarism, talked to scholars like Lawrence Bobo\u2014one of the \u200cmany authors from \u2064whom Gay cribbed, \u2063er, <i>inadequately cited<\/i>\u2014who told \u200bthe paper he\u2062 was &#8220;unconcerned&#8221; that Gay quoted him and his colleague, Gary King, without \u200bproper attribution.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Gay violated the <a href=\"https:\/\/usingsources.fas.harvard.edu\">standards<\/a> to which Harvard holds \u200bits own \u2063students. Sure, \u2063she did the same and worse \u200bto <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/this-is-definitely-plagiarism-harvard-university-president-claudine-gay-copied-entire-paragraphs-from-others-academic-work-and-claimed-them-as-her-own\/\">dozens of \u2063other scholars<\/a>. But \u2064Harvard\u2019s 30th president isn\u2019t a plagiarist. And besides, isn\u2019t imitation the \u200chighest form \u200dof \u200cflattery?\u200d Take notes, Harvard \u200cstudents. And Princeton students. And Amherst students.<\/p>\n<p>What the <i>Crimson<\/i> didn\u2019t mention is that Bobo, \u2063the\u200b dean of social sciences at Harvard, was appointed to his role five years \u2063earlier by Gay, when\u2063 she was dean of Harvard\u2019s faculty of\u2062 arts and sciences. She\u2019s not\u2062 just his boss, she\u2019s his patron. Gay\u2019s dissertation advisor,\u2062 Gary\u200c King, and her former\u200b classmate, Stephen \u200bVoss, also defended the Ivy League apparatchik who absconded with their work.<\/p>\n<p>What \u200dnone of them, least of all \u2063the members of the Harvard Corporation, want\u200c to say out loud, is that Gay wasn\u2019t tapped for her scholarship, and they aren\u2019t about\u2062 to hold her\u200b to the standards of a serious scholar. <em>Obviously.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, Gay was chosen for\u2064 a\u200c different set of credentials \u2013 \u200dher race, gender, \u200bpolitical views, and religious devotion to DEI \u2013 and she is delivering \u200bon her promise to rededicate the university to identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>To \u200bthat end, she engineered the defenestration of Roland Fryer, allegedly on Title IX charges,\u200d after \u200bthe star black economist ruffled feathers by \u200ddebunking myths of rampant police violence. She helped\u200c strip Ronald Sullivan, a black Harvard Law professor, of an administrative post because he served \u200con Harvey\u200d Weinstein\u2019s defense team. She even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstack.com\/p\/leaked-documents-the-president-of\">dismissed<\/a> allegations of research fraud against\u2064 Ryan Enos,\u2064 a Harvard government professor, who\u2064 just so <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/renos\/files\/enoschicago.pdf\">happened to \u2064find <\/a>that \u200dRepublicans are racist\u2014a recurring theme in Gay\u2019s own (well, not really) work.<\/p>\n<p>In her disgraceful testimony before Congress, in which Gay\u200b was asked \u2064whether Israel has the \u2062right to exist as a \u200bJewish state and responded, &#8220;I believe \u2063Israel has the right to exist&#8221; \u2013 not necessarily as a Jewish state \u2013 she was doing the job for\u200c which she \u200dwas\u2063 hired, in the way\u2063 she\u2063 was hired to do it. And the Harvard Corporation, in \u2063reaping \u2062the media whirlwind \u200cand tossing standards aside (again) to save their gal,\u2063 is getting exactly what they asked for.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How\u200d does Harvard&#8217;s justification for supporting President Gay, \u2064based on her \u2063background and position,\u2063 affect the credibility and reputation of the institution as \u200ca whole<\/h2>\n<p><span>  T Harvard, is \u200calso a member of the Harvard Corporation, the same body that expressed their\u2063 support for President Claudine Gay. It seems that those in positions of power\u200d within the university are \u2063willing\u200d to overlook Gay&#8217;s plagiarism, even\u2064 when\u200b it \u200bdirectly affects their own work.<\/p>\n<p>This\u200d raises an important question: if the authors from \u200bwhom\u200c you plagiarize say it&#8217;s okay, does that \u2063make it okay? According to\u200c Harvard&#8217;s \u200dresponse, it seems that they believe it does. They have chosen to stand\u200b by \u200dGay,\u200b despite the evidence of her misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarism is a \u200bserious offense in academia and is \u200cconsidered \u2064a breach of academic integrity.\u2064 It\u2063 undermines the foundation of knowledge and scholarship upon which universities\u200c are built. \u200dStudents are often held to strict standards when it comes \u2062to referencing\u200d and citing \u200bsources, and the consequences for plagiarism can be\u2064 severe.<\/p>\n<p>It is perplexing\u200c that \u2062Harvard, a university\u2062 that places such a strong emphasis on academic integrity, would choose to support \u2063a president\u2064 who has been \u2063implicated in \u200dmultiple instances of plagiarism. This sends a contradictory \u2062message to the students \u2062and\u200c faculty \u2064of\u2064 the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps \u2062Harvard&#8217;s decision is influenced \u2062by a desire to \u200dprotect \u2064its reputation. Gay is\u2064 not only\u2064 the president of the university\u200b but also \u2063the first woman\u200b and \u2063first African-American to hold the position. Her appointment was seen as a positive step towards\u200c diversity and inclusivity in academia. Admitting fault\u200d and taking action against her for plagiarism could be seen as a\u200b setback for the university&#8217;s progress in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u2063 this rationale is flawed. Upholding the values of honesty and integrity should \u200bbe paramount, regardless of \u200dthe\u2064 individual&#8217;s background or position.\u200d Allowing plagiarism to go unchecked sets a dangerous\u2062 precedent and undermines\u2063 the credibility of the institution as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>It is also\u200b worth considering the impact that \u2064this decision has on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-pay-100k-to-train-students-on-making-them-agents-of-charge-in-diversity-equity-inclusion\/\" title=\"Feds Pay 0k to Train Students on Making Them \"Agents of Charge\" in \"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion\"\">broader academic community<\/a>. By excusing Gay&#8217;s plagiarism, Harvard sends a message to other scholars and researchers that\u2064 the rules \u200bof academic integrity can be selectively applied. This undermines \u2063the trust \u200cand cooperation that is essential for the advancement of \u200cknowledge.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, if \u200dthe authors from whom you plagiarize say\u2062 it&#8217;s okay, it \u2064should not automatically\u2063 make it okay. Plagiarism is a serious offense that undermines \u200cthe principles of academic integrity and \u2063scholarly collaboration. Harvard&#8217;s decision\u200c to support President Claudine Gay, despite evidence of her\u200b plagiarism, raises concerns about\u2062 the institution&#8217;s commitment to \u200bthese principles. It\u2063 is important for \u2063universities to uphold\u200d the highest standards of academic integrity and to hold all members \u2064of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gops-slim-majority-in-the-house-grows-even-smaller-after-chris-stewart-retirement\/\" title=\"GOP's House majority shrinks further with Chris Stewart's retirement.\">community accountable<\/a> for their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvard Corporation declared their &#8220;full support&#8221; for president Claudine Gay, a serial plagiarist, stating that if the plagiarized authors approve, it&#8217;s acceptable. 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