Posted on 12/12/2023 6:35:42 PM PST by george76
Harvard University covered up a high-level investigation into whether its controversial president was a plagiarist — and used an expensive law firm to threaten The Post over our own probe.
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Harvard did not disclose that it had conducted a plagiarism investigation into its president Claudine Gay when she appeared before Congress last week.
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Anne Williamson, of Miami University, Ohio, said she was “shocked” by the parallels to her work and one of Gay’s papers and said: “It does look like plagiarism to me.”
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The 27 instances were in two academic papers published in two peer-reviewed journals between 2011 and 2017, and an article in an academic magazine in 1993.
The Post was sent the material anonymously and had conducted our own analysis before asking Harvard to comment on whether Gay had plagiarized or failed to properly cite other academics’ work. We have continued to investigate since.
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Among the papers under scrutiny are 2017’s “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing,” published in Urban Affairs Review and written while Gay was dean of social science at Harvard.
In the paper, Gay uses phrases which closely parallel ones in a 2011 paper by Anne Williamson, a professor of political science at the University of Miami in Ohio.
Williamson told The Post she was “angry” when she read the excerpts.
“It does look like plagiarism to me,” she said. “If they are going to do what they did, then I should be cited as a reference. My first reaction is shock. The second reaction is puzzlement. There was a way to draw from my paper. All she had to do is give me a credit.”
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Instead of being #1, they'll get demoted to #100.
Maybe alumni will complain and withhold their donations. But Havard is self-sufficent. They'll remain #1 in social justice, which is all what they care about anyway.
She was chosen just because she checked off dome diversity boxes.
Michelle Obama got her law degree from Harvard then failed her bar exam in Illinois. Just sayin’...
This isn’t that different from what happened at Stanford this summer, except she’s of a protected class:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns/index.html
Wouldn’t it be funny if everyone at Harvard started plagiarizing and when called on the carpet, said, “oops! I forgot the “...” !” and laughed about it???!!!
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