Harvard University’s governing board members have decided to back President Claudine Gay despite numerous missteps during her short tenure.
“As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University,” they wrote. “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.”
Gay has faced massive backlash over the intense antisemitism plaguing Harvard, especially since October 7 when Hamas invaded, murdered, raped, and kidnapped thousands of Jews.
Students have consistently called for the genocide of Jews.
Gay has hidden behind the First Amendment, even though we all know how Harvard treats conservatives.
Gay didn’t help matters during a Congressional hearing when she wouldn’t oppose or condemn those who screamed for the liquidation of Jews at Harvard. She made it worse with her empty apology for the disastrous Congressional hearing.
“So many people have suffered tremendous damage and pain because of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack, and the University’s initial statement should have been an immediate, direct, and unequivocal condemnation,” the board continued. “Calls for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental human values. President Gay has apologized for how she handled her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the University’s fight against antisemitism.”
How about the plagiarism allegations? School choice advocate Christopher Rufo, American Conservative contributing editor Chris Brunet, and Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium found many instances of plagiarism in Gay’s Ph.D. dissertation and at least three essays.
Carol Swain, author of Black Faces, Black Interests, confirmed to Rufo that Gay plagiarized her material.
What does Harvard say? Oh…they knew about the writings in October:
With regard to President Gay’s academic writings, the University became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles. At President Gay’s request, the Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by distinguished political scientists and conducted a review of her published work. On December 9, the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation. While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.
That’s weird. Rufo and Brunet published Harvard’s policy, and, well, it certainly sounds like Gay violated the plagiarism policy:
“When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words. It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation.”
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