Harvard professor spews contempt for alumnus Chris Rufo who brought down Claudine Gay, brings up his Harvard night school degree as proof

American Thinker ^ | 01/07/2024 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

Now that Claudine Gay is out as Harvard's president on evidence that she plagiarized research and failed to counter antisemitism on campus, Harvard's elites are steaming with fury.

They had, after all, signed a letter urging that the university keep her and her wokester policies on board.

But that wasn't the worst of it.

The biggest indignity was in the knowledge of who took her down: Not a top Harvard scholar but a lowly Harvard night school student with the equivalent of a master's degree named Christopher Rufo, writing on his humble Substack. He was the one who found the plagiarism.

And here's a Harvard professor who let the cat out of the bag:

On Rufo: what do integrity police say about his claim to have “master’s degree from Harvard,” which is actually from the open-enrollment Extension School? Those students are great - I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students — Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) January 5, 2024

 

Ohh, so night school students aren't quite as good as regular Harvard students -- the ones who enroll in the extension school based on whether they can pay and whether they signed up first for their classes, and then got their degrees through hard work on the sink-or-swim system.

Those plebes.

And no, she's not backing down.

Image: Twitter / X screen shot

The students Hochschild is thinking of are the supposedly traditional students, the best and brightest, they are billed -- the ones who these days use legacy admissions, affirmative action, tutors, admissions consultants, parental donations to the school, and sometimes outright bribery to get into the university which in fact largely amount to non-merit advantages other kids don't have.

[SeekAndFind]

The night school kids, by contrast, pay their tuition at Harvard, enroll in their classes, and only pass them if they can do the work, there is no coddling in that sink-or-swim system.

Yet somehow, the traditional students are not just 'better,' they are also more believable.

[Jonty30]

Liberals will always insert the arguement of eugenics indirectly when you argue with them. It’s why they always point out their degrees over somebody’s lack of education or tradeschool qualifications.

[kiryandil]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[9YearLurker]

The standard for passing extension classes at Harvard is indeed significantly lower than getting accepted as a regularly matriculated student.

However, pointing this out is rich, coming from a professor of African-American studies who appears about as AA as Elizabeth Warren appears NA.

[Sirius Lee]

They should be ashamed that an extension-school alumni was able to uncover the plagiarism that those benighted day student alumni were incapable of.

[Bookshelf]

Hochschild received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College. Likely a red diaper baby. And a schnauzer to boot.

[bankwalker]

Bill ackman is cranking up his ai powered plagiarism detector as we speak. All hell is about to break loose on academia.

[bert]

In California they allow Blacks to shoplift up to $950 of stuff with no penalty.

In Massachusetts, they allow Blacks to have their PhD thesis plagiarized by ghost writers and get degrees from Harvard.

[17th Miss Regt]

In the pic with the article, it looks like she is trying to hold her nose down a bit from its usual position up in the air. And yes, woof, woof!

[Liz]

Rufo who exposed Gay’s plagiarism is dismissed as being “only” a Harvard night school student.
Not one of the “beatified traditional students” deemed the best and brightest, the ones who get in thru
<><>legacy admissions,
<><>affirmative action,
<><>high-price tutors,
<><>pricey admissions consultants,
<><>parental donations to the school,
<><>and sometimes outright bribery
<><>using non-merit advantages other kids don’t have.

[Chgogal]

BTTT

[vetvetdoug]

All of this indignation toward plagiarism to me is hypocrisy as long as the honors to MLK,Jr. are left intact. MLK,Jr. plagiarized over 80% of his doctorate at Boston U. and is overlooked because of his “speeches” that were also plagiarized. So plagiarism is ok for some but not for all?