Plagiarist 2

(cont'd from last Friday's post)

A member of the faculty at the University of Cambridge had something to say about the scandal of leadership in process at Harvard University in the U.S. 

"Claudine Gay is President of Harvard for the same reason she's allowed to commit plagiarism. She's at the top of the left's new racial and gender hierarchy, and she supports its program to create a new intellectual monoculture that discriminates against white, Asians, and men, and which outright bans conservatives . . .

"There will be little appetite among Gay's peers to hold her accountable for anything. Unsurprisingly, the members of the Harvard Corporation released a statement holding that Gay did nothing wrong and that they 'unanimously stand in support' of her.

"And why shouldn't they? Gay has done everything she was hired to do, namely, to be black, to be a woman, and to enforce woke orthodoxy."

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Plagiarist

Maybe you are following the uproar over university presidents who can't bring themselves to say that genocide is always a bad thing. For the president of Harvard University, the spotlight on her testimony in Congress raised more issues.

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Dr. Claudine Gay used to be the Dean of Arts and Sciences before she was promoted to president. In that capacity, she denounced the plagiarism of 27 students who were then kicked out. Disappointingly, it turns out that she has a double standard: when they did it, that was bad; but when she did it, that was fine.

Former Vanderbilt professor Dr. Carol Swain is one scholar whose work Gay used but did not give credit to. Swain believes that standards for tenure are lower today. "I don’t believe her record warranted tenure, and I believe that I had to meet a much higher standard than she did."

In Swain's opinion, it's a case of "affirmative action." That's a privilege granted because of race rather than actual merit. As she says, "A white male would probably already be gone."

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from Christopher Rufo interview of Dr. Swain

Roland 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Police in the US do not use lethal force against Blacks more than they do against white people. In fact, they use that force about 23% less than they do against whites. That was the result that Roland's research team discovered. Some of his colleagues advised him against publishing it because it was "so different." But he did publish it.

A previously fired assistant then filed accusations of sexual harassment against him out of revenge (according to her friend). A Harvard investigator found no basis for it. But Harvard University punished him with 2-year suspension and the end of his research lab, essentially "career death." Claudine Gay was on the deciding committee.

Why? Apparently because his work challenged the official narrative that systemic racism causes American police to frequently kill black men, so Roland's research had to be stopped. So much for "veritas" at Harvard.

Dr. Roland Fryer still wants to find strategies that actually help black kids achieve. "Truth helps us. False narratives do not. I find it insulting that people would change the truth because they think they're trying to help us."

Harvard 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven got her PhD at Harvard University. She taught there, she was loved and respected there--and she got in trouble there. It's surreal, she says, that she became a "central example of what has gone wrong in higher education."

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What went wrong? On a tv interview she explained the biological definitions of male and female, claiming that scientists should not back away from using these terms "in response to pressure from ideologues." 

A graduate student speaking for a DEI committee called her comments transphobic and harmful. In the ensuing controversy, her friends dared not support her. Standing alone, she finally resigned a year ago.

Claudine Gay described Harvard as being "deeply committed to free expression." Carole says that she "severely distorted the truth."

from AEI where you can get the details in her own words