Harvard students played down the severity of the plagiarism allegations against President Claudine Gay, with some dismissing the criticism as “too much” – and just part of a pressure campaign to give her the boot.
“While I think that properly citing your sources is important, I’m now at a point where I think it’s definitely redundant and redundant,” university student Julia García Galindo told The Harvard Crimson, the school’s student newspaper.
Owen Ebose sniffed that the allegations were a “distraction” for the university and was ultimately hyped solely to fire Gay.
“Very vocal people in business, politics and the media want him gone, and they are digging up small mistakes over the past few decades to build momentum for his removal,” Ebose told the outlet.
Gay, who just finished his first semester as Harvard president, came under fire earlier this month over major allegations that he plagiarized research from other academics in his 1997 doctoral dissertation, in addition to writing four papers between 1993 and 2017 without properly citing his sources.
Some Harvard students believe the plagiarism allegations against President Claudine Gay are “too much”. REUTERS Some students believe the plagiarism allegations were uncovered as part of a campaign to expel Gay. David McGlynn
The Harvard Corporation, the school’s secretive governing board, later revealed it had investigated allegations of plagiarism against Gay and issued corrections in two academic journals to acknowledge the source of his work.
The school also announced last week that Gay would also issue corrections to his dissertation to address “insufficient citations.”
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman asked on X whether some students at his alma mater held back from calling for the president’s resignation for fear of reprisals.
Harvard’s secretive governing board said it had issued a correction to an academic journal over allegations of plagiarism. David McGlynn
“Consider the risk to students who publicly call for his resignation,” wrote Ackman, who has repeatedly called for Gay’s removal following his congressional testimony on Dec. 5, in which he avoided answering questions about whether students should be punished for antisemitic chants on campus.
Not all Harvard students brushed off the allegations, with some university leaders outraged that it seemed to hold its students to a higher standard than the school’s president.
Harvard student Irati Egorho Diez said he believed Gay should resign after realizing the “wide and deep” allegations of plagiarism.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo warns Gay’s alleged plagiarism scandal will continue next year. The Washington Post via Getty Images
“I think that the role of the president should be the embodiment of the values of Harvard College,” Egorho Diez told the Crimson. “And this, to me, seems to go against that.”
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who earlier this month revealed allegations that Gay’s dissertation had plagiarized other people’s work, warned the heat on Harvard presidents will continue in 2024.
“The Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal will not go away. After the New Year, expect the other shoe to drop,” he wrote.
A billboard truck slammed Claudine Gay a day after the University chose not to remove it after controversial comments she made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David McGlynn
The House Education and Workforce Committee, which earlier this month began investigating Harvard over allegations of plagiarism against Gay, announced Friday that it extended the deadline for Harvard to turn over documents related to the investigation.
“Given the holidays and office closures, we are working with Harvard on the urgent production of a document that takes that into account,” a committee spokesperson told CNN.
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