Much of December saw Harvard University President Claudine Gay fending off sustained accusations of academic fraud and plagiarism:
Alas (for her), the new year doesn't look likely to offer Prof. Gay any respite:
Harvard University president Claudine Gay was hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism on Monday in a complaint filed with the university, breathing fresh life into a scandal that has embroiled her nascent presidency and pushing the total number of allegations near 50.
Yes, just to emphasize, the "total number of allegations" against this lady is nearing 50.
That's a lot! And the kind of thing you'd think would raise dozens of red flags. The school, of course, is standing resolutely behind her. (It's Harvard, what did you expect exactly?)
The new accusation, meanwhile, alleges that Gay in a 2001 paper boosted "nearly half a page of material verbatim from another scholar, David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin."
Canon himself, in fairness, dismissed the allegations, telling the Free Beacon: "I am not at all concerned about the passages ... This isn't even close to an example of academic plagiarism."
You be the judge: Here's a partial comparison, as prepared by the Washington Free Beacon:
The recently filed complaint, meanwhile, alleges that Harvard's review of Gay's body of work "was too brief to inspire confidence:"
So we now know for certain that the board's investigation was a sham.
Can't wait to see what they uncover next!
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