Harvard President Plagiarized Her Dissertation

The longer Harvard keeps this DEI tool, the more harm they do to their shredded reputation. Not only has the far left destroyed our most venerated institutions, they have destroyed the American mind.

“The spectacle of American college students angrily spewing hatred for Israel and professing support for Hamas has opened the eyes of a lot of people to the true state of academia in the 21st century. As the esteemed Victor Davis Hanson says in his latest column, “the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.”

After a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing last week about anti-Semitism on college campuses, we’re witnessing something not often seen when it comes to leftists in education: consequences.” Stephen Kruiser

The Harvard President plagiarized her dissertation.

She must be fired.

This is embarrassing for Harvard’s academic credibility. https://t.co/odstXKs6Ac

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 11, 2023

Please see my letter today to @Harvard governing boards of directors:

December 10, 2023

Dear Members of the Harvard Governing Boards:

In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage to the reputation of Harvard University than any individual in our nearly…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 10, 2023

First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.

This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Gay repeats this violation of Harvard's policy throughout the document, again using work from Bobo and Gilliam, as well as passages from Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan, which she reproduces nearly verbatim, without quotation marks. pic.twitter.com/K75YPeZwky

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between "descriptive representation" and "substantive representation," she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book 'Black Faces, Black Interests,'… pic.twitter.com/68bJy1F9jo

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Later in the paper, Gay also uses identical language to Swain, without adding quotation marks, as required. "Since the 1950s the reelection rate for House members has rarely dipped below 90 percent," reads Swain’s book, which is the same, excepting an added comma, to the language… pic.twitter.com/p6aM8776Hh

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Third, Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King's book, 'A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem.' While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that… pic.twitter.com/WGZAzc6gUn

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

These are flagrant violations of Harvard's plagiarism policy, which states that students who commit plagiarism will suffer "disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College." The same standard should apply to the university president. pic.twitter.com/Q2UviANylT

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

I earned a master's degree from Harvard's night school—not nearly as prestigious as the graduate school—but, if I had committed these kinds of violations, I would have been expelled. As an alumnus, I am calling on Claudine Gay to immediately resign from her position.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

I have sent repeated emails to President Gay's office and she has not responded. If she does, I will update the story with her comments.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 11, 2023

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turtlebrat

4 months ago

No surprise here – affirmative action in action.

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Pray Hard

4 months ago

If she wasn’t a black lesbian diversity hire, she’d be finished in the academic world.

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Staff Sgt

4 months ago

Sad and upsetting. A gay, woke, corrupt, racist, left, hypocrite , full of lies and deceit.

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vinnynewyork

4 months ago

Reply to  Staff Sgt

Yeah .. but how can we think that 50% of America will vote again for demented Biden (Obama)???

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Grendel

4 months ago

Reply to  Staff Sgt

But ….. totally expected.

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Paul(mine,mine,mine)

4 months ago

Reply to  Staff Sgt

All that and not surprising.

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BobV

4 months ago

For the Banana Republic of Amerika, this is standard operating procedure. Welcome to the Great Reset bizarro world where lies are truths and truths are lies. Time to start over.

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Cowgirl Diva

4 months ago

NOW…..Let’s take a deep dive into the Barack INSANE Obama’s academic performance records and lies, too..!! Unseal ALL those records..!! Stop protecting ALL the “elite” cheaters who continue to benefit greatly by CHEATING…DECEIVING…….(CON)NIVING…..and LYING…..!!

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vinnynewyork

4 months ago

The 1930 Nazi sinking ship now called America (thanks Obama and Joey) has three shameful Ivy League campuses on board … Get your bathing suits on Liberals.

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Tesla_rules

4 months ago

Reply to  vinnynewyork

I heard the name of the USA was changed, is that true? Union of Soviet Socialist States of Amarxica?
Now the party that began the Civil War – South Carolina was dominated by Democrats when it seceded from the Union six weeks after Lincoln was elected, is carrying out its plan to make all Amarxicans slaves.

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Thrushour

4 months ago

The same as Bidet plagiarizing British politician Neal Kinnocks speech during his failed 1988 presidential run…

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Tesla_rules

4 months ago

Reply to  Thrushour

So they USSSA use to have a commander in chief, but now it has a Liar in Chief as well as adulterer in chief?

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Roger Grant

4 months ago

It’s a DEI thesis.
Claudine Gay is KJP with a PhD (likely plagiarized). Black, Female, Gay.
How many scholars of national reputation where skipped to consider Claudine.

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Creole Gumbo

4 months ago

MLK Jr. also plagerized his doctoral dissertation and his “I have a Dream” speech took lines from a speech given by Archibald Carey Jr. in the early 50s. She was chosen as DEI and I presume plagerists must be included.

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Nicola Timmerman

4 months ago

How about Elizabeth Warren who pretended to have aboriginal ancestry and was a prestigious law professor at Harvard?

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Stephen Honig

4 months ago

Fire that black racist anti Semitic bitch!

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Grendel

4 months ago

“in fact, King was her dissertation advisor”

IN FACT …… King, as her “advisor” was responsible for checking her work …. which makes King ‘responsible’ for her wrong-doing. Both should be punished.

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HUSSAR

4 months ago

Dear Fellow Peons:

They are very smart at Harvard. The smartest people in the world, don’t you know.

Seven years as a Vietnam era military officer… I met exactly 1 officer from the Ivy League, he was from Harvard… So give them some credit.

I think they should keep her… she’s clearly raising standards in the Ivy League. They are NEEDED so they can populate the Democrat Party, the American bureaucracy and the Globalist cadre.

Bring on the East Coast Think Tanks…

Isn’t the USA doing great right now? Come on man!

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Vince S.

4 months ago

I have noticed a trend as of late where black ladies, many of them lefty, lunatic, lesbian liberals cut their hair really short, and often dye it a shade of gold.
It’s like the new sign of the SCARY BLACK WOMAN that seems designed to put fear in the hearts of those oppressive white folks who have done nothing at all to oppress white folks. But who cares about reality in 2023, right? Got to make sure those VICTIMS stick it to their imagined OPPRESSORS, right?
Another accessory that adds to the SCARY FACTOR is the thick, Buddy Holly-esque eyeglasses. Just wearing these raises your IQ about 95 points and makes you look sooooooo intelligent that nobody would dare question whether you actually use common sense or are as dumb as a box of rocks. Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Rachel (Roger) Maddow (sense a common theme here?), Joy Reid, Keith Olbermann and so many other psychologically unstable leftards got the welder glasses look going on. Oooh. so cool and smart!
Impressive!!

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