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As Matt explains nearby, Claudine Gay is officially resigning as Harvard’s president. But now even her resignation letter is sending the plagiarism klaxon to Defcon 1.
Gay was pressured to leave the president’s office because someone — many someones — was thoroughly embarrassed by her performance in front of Congress recently. UPenn’s president skedaddled and went quietly right after the testimony.
Gay’s equally awful performance, in which the Ivy League president couldn’t tell the difference between free speech and threatening genocide against Jews, caused some to wonder if zombies had taken over academia (asked and answered). After that, more questions came. How could someone that clueless be Harvard’s president — their inner voices screamed?
Then they started reading her scholarly writing. Not only did she fail to publish any books about her woke studies, but the thin number of papers she did write was also filled with the stolen ideas and words of others without attribution. That’s called plagiarism, and it used to be grounds for outright dismissal, but for the complete collapse of academic standards at what used to be a premier American university.
And now her resignation letter was pinning the plagiarometer.
Maybe it was the words “Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. [The] Vice President will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office” that set off the plagiarism klaxon. Or it could have been “You won’t have Claudine Gay to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.” Perhaps this turn of phrase was the tip-off: “I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.”
Claudine Gay Gives Tearful Resignation Speech Entitled 'Gettysburg Address' https://t.co/i7WzsPIGXN pic.twitter.com/4GtJheZiwV
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 2, 2024
Kidding. The first two quotes were Richard Nixon’s and the third was in George Washington’s “Farewell Address.” She wouldn’t have ripped off those people anyway. They expressed way too much humility. Besides, one guy was a colonialist, and the other was the guy hounded out of office by a morally bankrupt press and the CIA, which are precisely her kind of people…
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