Posted on 12/31/2023 5:00:27 PM PST by lightman
A member of Harvard’s student Honor Council called for the resignation of university president Claudine Gay over her ongoing plagiarism scandal — accusing the school’s governing body of having one standard for the embattled administrator and another for the student body.
“Gay’s getting off easy,” the student, who sits on the council tasked with deciding sanctions for classmates caught plagiarizing, wrote in a letter published anonymously in the Harvard Crimson Sunday.
“Let’s compare the treatment of Harvard undergraduates suspected of plagiarism with that of their president,” they wrote.
“When students — my classmates, peers, and friends — appear before the council, they are distraught. For most, it is the worst day of their college careers. For some, it is the worst day of their lives. They often cry.”
First time plagiarism infractions — which can stem from omitted quotation marks, and incomplete or absent citations — typically result in one term of probation and the stripping away of the student’s “good standing” status, which prevents them from studying abroad or even graduating, the author wrote.
Repeat offenses can result in students being forced to withdraw from the university for two semesters, according to the letter, published in Harvard’s student newspaper.
...“What is striking about the allegations of plagiarism against President Gay is that the improprieties are routine and pervasive,” the letter said.
Gay was found to have used “duplicative language without appropriate attribution” in some of her academic work, the school’s governing body, the Harvard Corporation said after an investigation.
Instead of Gay being forced to step away from the university as students would for similar offenses, Harvard stood behind its president and allowed her to correct the mistakes, the student letter noted.
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(With apologies to all good and Godly Tamaras and derivatives)
Claudine Gay is a TAMI
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TAMIs are replacing “Karens” .
Karens are merely annoying but TAMIs are deadly and destructive.
Silly student. He or she thinks the rules apply equally.
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Alma mater ping.
That’s the problem with tokens. They are great for the “most of my best friends are black” liberals but they’re always in over their heads and out of their league.
Actions supporting lowering standards tell me a that certain people cannot reach a high standard of excellence therefore the standards must be lowered. I was not raised to believe that though. Must I suspend disbelief when presented with evidence?
standards and rules don’t apply when you are black.
Yup—I was raised to be “tolerant”.
Then I found out what racism really is.
A mouse presses a black button and gets a shock.
The mouse presses the white button and gets food.
When the mouse then keeps pressing the white button they are declared racist.
Academia is academic fraud.
Standards and rules don’t apply-just see Biden the plagiarist.
This is really good training for Harvard students. Sooner they learn the better. “RULES AND LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE”. Everyone is created equal, but some are more equal than others.
Harvard now has zero academic integrity.
A Harvard sheepskin is worth more to the sheep.
So this student honor council member has more integrity than Harvard’s board? Interesting.
There is hope for his/her generation after all.
Claudine Gay needs to do the honorable thing and conduct suppuku upon herself.
Good for these students.
Just think about these frauds flying airliners, designing bridges/buildings AND going into surgery to work on your loved one’s vital organs.
Dedicated college study and hard work is “acting white.”
One person. All the others there are going to leave him hanging out to dry.
He’ll end up expelled.
Should not flunk the students for the same thing the Dean does.
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