Dec 11, 2023·edited Dec 11, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo
Chris Brunet and Chris Rufo have achieved legendary status for exposing the fraud that is Harvard President Claudine Gay. I am in awe of your work, gentlemen. Now that you're taking off the head of the snake, it's time to take on the long tail of Demoralized DIEvy League commissars.
Please don't stop here. Go after every woke educational administrator, starting with the the Ivy Leaguers, and don't stop there. The DEI community is likely full of such charlatans. Raise funds for the effort by asking us to "sponsor" or "adopt" a college president or DEI flunky to investigate. I'll be among the first to contribute.
Her CV indicates about 6-7 peer reviewed journal articles - fine for a grad student, insufficient to seek tenure in most universities - laughable for a full professor or dean, and incredible for the boss of the most prestigious university in the world....So not surprised her dissertation was weak and plagiarized. This is what you get with a diversity hire. It's a testament to what DEI does to academic integrity
As a journalism student, many years ago, and then as a homeschooling mother 20 years ago, the rules for plagiarism were clear, concise, and unambiguous. Four words in a row from the original source did not require citation, but once you got to five words in a row, it was plagiarism unless you specifically cited the original author. Period, end of story...
There is absolutely no allowance for anyone, high school level or above, lifting entire sentences or paragraphs without citation and anyone who does so should automatically be given a failing grade in whatever class they are taking and should immediately be stripped of all credentials earned by the use of plagiarized material!
Thanks Chris. Yep, Gay is just another example of what happens when you subjugate meritocracy and equal opportunity to the mutually exclusive utopian desire for statistically equal outcomes -- despite the immorality and lack of integrity of it all. To bestow achievement without meritocracy is theft of achievement from those who merit it.
Worse, IMHO, when lies are accepted, they must grow more extreme to survive. That's where we are today in Universities, the UN, in too many corporate boardrooms, etc.
Although I believe truth will eventually prevail, Gay, and too many Harvard administrators, faculty, and students, are a bi-product of this lie. Although my hope is that Universities will reform, it will not happen without taking down its leaderships - via public ridicule and later, once the political will is sufficient, with top-down financial means that might utilize lessons from New College.
As such, thanks again Chris for shining a bright light on this. Awesome. Of course, the battle will take years. To quote Steve Adkins, a fellow participant, "We have the greatest positive potential of any nation on earth. I remain fundamentally an optimist but worry about a bumpy ride ahead for the next few years."
Can any of us imagine a white female academic rising to such success with a PhD thesis entitled:
Taking Charge: White Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies
And making good use of a previous thesis:
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and White Empowerment
And generous quotes from this:
Using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that White-Americans in “high white-empowerment” areas—as indicated by control of the mayor’s office—are more active than either White-Americans in low empowerment areas or their black counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status. Empowerment, they conclude, influences white participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing white attentiveness to political affairs.
Is there a "statute of limitations" on Plagiarism?
Harvard will, I wager, manipulate the situation to make anyone who is skeptical of this person's fitness for the job a racist misogynist. And they will redefine plagiarism.
Chris Brunet and Chris Rufo have achieved legendary status for exposing the fraud that is Harvard President Claudine Gay. I am in awe of your work, gentlemen. Now that you're taking off the head of the snake, it's time to take on the long tail of Demoralized DIEvy League commissars.
May I suggest Crystal Williams, President of RISD? https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-appoint-a-commissar
Harvard’s leader is an antisemitic plagiarist. How far this institution has fallen!
She vetted it all with Joe Biden and was told there was mostly no plagiarism .
Please don't stop here. Go after every woke educational administrator, starting with the the Ivy Leaguers, and don't stop there. The DEI community is likely full of such charlatans. Raise funds for the effort by asking us to "sponsor" or "adopt" a college president or DEI flunky to investigate. I'll be among the first to contribute.
Her CV indicates about 6-7 peer reviewed journal articles - fine for a grad student, insufficient to seek tenure in most universities - laughable for a full professor or dean, and incredible for the boss of the most prestigious university in the world....So not surprised her dissertation was weak and plagiarized. This is what you get with a diversity hire. It's a testament to what DEI does to academic integrity
As a journalism student, many years ago, and then as a homeschooling mother 20 years ago, the rules for plagiarism were clear, concise, and unambiguous. Four words in a row from the original source did not require citation, but once you got to five words in a row, it was plagiarism unless you specifically cited the original author. Period, end of story...
There is absolutely no allowance for anyone, high school level or above, lifting entire sentences or paragraphs without citation and anyone who does so should automatically be given a failing grade in whatever class they are taking and should immediately be stripped of all credentials earned by the use of plagiarized material!
Chris Brunet is a fearless investigator of plagiarism posing as scholarship and the DIE complex
Intellectual dishonesty equates with inability to recognize truth in any form?
This gives the Board of Governors the excuse they need to dump her. They are likely breathing a sigh of relief.
Thanks Chris. Yep, Gay is just another example of what happens when you subjugate meritocracy and equal opportunity to the mutually exclusive utopian desire for statistically equal outcomes -- despite the immorality and lack of integrity of it all. To bestow achievement without meritocracy is theft of achievement from those who merit it.
Worse, IMHO, when lies are accepted, they must grow more extreme to survive. That's where we are today in Universities, the UN, in too many corporate boardrooms, etc.
Although I believe truth will eventually prevail, Gay, and too many Harvard administrators, faculty, and students, are a bi-product of this lie. Although my hope is that Universities will reform, it will not happen without taking down its leaderships - via public ridicule and later, once the political will is sufficient, with top-down financial means that might utilize lessons from New College.
As such, thanks again Chris for shining a bright light on this. Awesome. Of course, the battle will take years. To quote Steve Adkins, a fellow participant, "We have the greatest positive potential of any nation on earth. I remain fundamentally an optimist but worry about a bumpy ride ahead for the next few years."
Does plagiarism violate the Harvard code of conduct? Depends on context.
Can any of us imagine a white female academic rising to such success with a PhD thesis entitled:
Taking Charge: White Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies
And making good use of a previous thesis:
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and White Empowerment
And generous quotes from this:
Using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that White-Americans in “high white-empowerment” areas—as indicated by control of the mayor’s office—are more active than either White-Americans in low empowerment areas or their black counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status. Empowerment, they conclude, influences white participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing white attentiveness to political affairs.
Why are we allowing this?
Black female gets a different standard
Is there a "statute of limitations" on Plagiarism?
Harvard will, I wager, manipulate the situation to make anyone who is skeptical of this person's fitness for the job a racist misogynist. And they will redefine plagiarism.
The time has clearly come for Claudine Gay to "spend more time with her family."
You guys are rock stars. Stellar reporting.