This is the most astonishing thing.

Harvard PRESIDENT Claudine Gay is going to keep her schweet, schweet gig.

Gobsmacking.

She held on in the face of that ghastly, arrogant, heartless, anti-Semitic performance before Congress with the other “Poison Ivies.” The one where Ms Gay repeatedly refused to answer whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s policies.

…Everything from the rot of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the new racial segregation on campus to academia’s rigid, intolerant ideological partisanship, and its funding by nefarious foreign entities, was laid bare for the nation to see.

…Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology basically stuck to giving name, rank, and serial number. They repeated carefully rehearsed phrases obviously pre-cleared by lawyers and comms teams.

Gay particularly kept restating the same phrases, not even bothering to find different variations. One formulation she clung on to, as though it were a talisman that would save her from the bad men and women that had her pinned on the stand, was, “We are deeply committed to free expression, but not when it violates our policies against bullying, and intimidation, and harassment. Then we have strong disciplinary processes in place.”

Gay invoked “processes” in other contexts, too, despite diminishing returns that, by the end of the ordeal, had turned the term into an object of derision.

“I didn’t ask about your processes,” an obviously exasperated Texas Rep. Nathaniel Moran spat out at one point. “I am asking for action. How many students have been disciplined? How many have been held to account?”

Crickets.

Followed by a forced and disastrous clean-up effort when the epic scope of the public relations catastrophe became clear – no way they kept her.

NEW: @Harvard President Claudine Gay apologizes for her remarks in Congress:

“I am sorry…words matter.”

“I got caught up in what had become at that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures…I failed to convey what is my truth.”

“It makes me sad.” pic.twitter.com/HfUiGbHvWW

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) December 8, 2023

MY TRUTH GIVZ ME #SADZ

Yup, argle-bargle aside. She kept her job even as enraged calls swirled for her resignation – from Congress, Americans, and Harvard donors alike. Had to be a breathless moment or two watching as fellow academic presidential heads began to roll for their own, indistinguishable-from-her-own testimony that day.

Context is everything.

Good! Penn University president Liz McGill has resigned. The performance of all 3 heads of these elite universities has really brought to light the toxic culture operating within these institutions. https://t.co/R9llqhxVJG

— Ireland Israel Alliance (@irlisrAlliance) December 9, 2023

Gay and the formerly revered institution she leads had but a moment to wipe the beads of worry from their brow before the next storm hit, thanks once again to the undistinguished president.

Chris Rufo and partner Chris Brunet had done some digging into Gay’s writings – it wasn’t hard, as she’s only published something like 11 whole papers in her entire career. That alone should give one pause considering her position.

What they found in the single paper they went through – her doctoral thesis – was inexcusable, sloppy, and intellectually dishonest. It also was filled with flagrant violations of every rock solid tenet of Harvard’s guidelines regarding submitted papers. The work is supposed to be the author’s. That contained within which is not the author’s also has clear rules for attribution and what citations were acceptable.

In President Gay’s case, it seems RULEZ DO NOT APPLY HERE

As Ed reported:

…One could look at this another way. Gay’s apparent plagiarism, or at least her incompetence at following basic rules of attribution, could be considered as evidence for her unfitness for the job at hand. If Gay couldn’t be bothered to follow those rules and do her own work on her own doctoral dissertation, then she’s clearly not competent for the executive role in any organization, especially in an academic institution.

Either way, this raises serious questions about Harvard as well. How did Gay skate by with these issues in her doctoral dissertation at the time? How rigorous is the academic environment at Harvard, anyway? Bear in mind that these dissertations are supposedly reviewed by experts in their fields at Harvard. Gay wasn’t lifting material from decades-old work in mouldering libraries, after all; Swain’s work had just been published two years earlier, and the Bobo-Gilliam material less than a decade prior to the dissertation. Did Gay skate by because of institutional incompetence, or did she get a pass for other reasons?

She kept her job.

Not only did she keep it, Harvard went into defensive mode, pulling together as many faculty members as they could to provide a “professional” bulwark around their president.

Embarrassing the letters people sign these days (The “Ackman” he refers to is billionaire Bill Ackman, a Harvard donor who has called for Gay’s resignation.). We’re up to 726 signatories, which is over a quarter of Harvard’s 2500+ faculty members.

The language of this Harvard faculty letter is carefully crafted: it calls for the university to reject outside influence and does not preclude signatories favoring the ouster of President Gay provided the action is taken independently and not at the behest of Bill Ackman… pic.twitter.com/naiIDfAAzK

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 12, 2023

Gay was still in the president’s office.

Then came the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium yesterday, torpedoing Gay’s supposed rigorous “scholarship” right out of the water.

Is there anything original?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2023

And, no, Elon – there doesn’t appear to be much content that is original.

You all have to click through to the Beacon’s article and see the multiple side-by-sides they’ve put together. It will blow your mind.

Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized numerous academics over the course of her academic career, at times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as her own work, according to reviews by several scholars.

In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors—including two of her colleagues in Harvard University’s department of government—without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay’s dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo and Karlstack’s Chris Brunet.

The Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism. Most of them said that Gay had violated a core principle of academic integrity as well as Harvard’s own anti-plagiarism policies, which state that “it’s not enough to change a few words here and there.”

Rather, scholars are expected to cite the sources of their work, including when paraphrasing, and to use quotation marks when quoting directly from others. But in at least 10 instances, Gay lifted full sentences—even entire paragraphs—with just a word or two tweaked.

She’s still got that office, don’t you know. And her defenders are casting about for other means to protect her.

Well, hey there, Harvard. Way to circle the wagons. Even the school student rag The Harvard Crimson has taken a leap off the big board into helping out-the-Prez-deep-end. The noxious, easily led kiddies writing there earnestly point out that, while it seemed there might be some merit to a few accusations coming from Rufo/Brunet/Sibarium, as they’re RIGHT-WING POUNCERS, there’s actually no merit there at all.

Right-wingers shouldn’t have been looking and only were because “racists.” Well, and please make fun of Sibarium’s hair.

The Crimson makes sure to mention that @realchrisrufo @realChrisBrunet and @aaronsibarium are “right wing.”

Otherwise how would Crimson readers know how to judge the substance of their claims? #KnowYourTribes

— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) December 12, 2023

As of this morning, with her own performance and all this documentation proving that the morally bankrupt, intellectually fraudulent, and professionally compromised President of HARVARD Frickin’ University, who obviously never should have been hired to begin with, and damn sure should have been filing days ago for whatever unemployment Massachusetts offers when one gets canned without two weeks notice…will keep her job.

Shameful and total absence of leadership from @Harvard. Gay is not the problem, she is just the symptom of the rot that is the Ivy League educational system, where Jew hatred is tolerated and accepted. https://t.co/epxxGfKGXa

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) December 12, 2023

She. Will. Keep. Her. Job.

What kind of privilege is the one where you can't be fired for being an anti-semitic racist plagiarizer just because you're a black woman? https://t.co/zwltIbGkNB

— RBe (@RBPundit) December 12, 2023

Harvard will NOT fire her for all the transgressions against scholarly integrity, and the evident mediocrity of her actual professional and intellectual abilities.

In her case, I cannot begin to answer what Harvard would ever fire her for. There’s not much left.

I would hazard a pretty confident guess I am able to answer what they would fire someone for who wasn’t shielded by the exclusive boxes she ticks off in this hallowed, halcyon fortress of woke ideology.

Is there any better, more explicit modern parable exposing the hypocritical, elite, entrenched ROT at the heart of “higher education” than this abomination?

I think not.

Take the lesson and learn it well, grasshoppers.

The days of genuflecting to the virtue-signaling, morally relative, educated class are over, and it’s going to be the rudest shock they’ve ever had in their coddled, bubble-wrapped lives.

BEEGE UPDATE: I promised in the comments if I could find the link to students being expelled from Harvard for plagiarism, re: Bingley’s and Arashi’s comments, I’d post it, and I have scored.

In 2021, @Harvard expelled 27 students for plagiarism

But its PRESIDENT will reportedly get a free pass despite plagiarizing her PhD THESIS pic.twitter.com/H7Uv3qguJc

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) December 12, 2023

Feast your eyes on the inequality in the Harvard system for plagiarizing pogues paying the freight as opposed to the illustrious personages at the top of the food chain.

In Six-Year High, 27 Undergraduates Forced to Withdraw from Harvard in 2020-2021 Due to Honor Code Violations

In a six-year high, 27 students were forced to withdraw from Harvard College during the 2020-2021 academic year due to academic dishonesty, according to a report released this month.

The Honor Council heard a total of 138 academic integrity cases during the school year. The 2020-2021 school year marked the highest number of cases and withdrawals since the Honor Council came into effect in 2015.

Harvard moved classes online during the 2020-2021 school year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and exams for both semesters were administered online. Roughly 5,231 undergraduates enrolled in fall 2020 while 20 percent of admitted students opted to defer enrollment.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana chairs the Honor Council, a group of students, faculty, and administrators who adjudicate cases of academic dishonesty.

Ninety-nine of the 138 reviewed cases resulted in a finding of responsibility, meaning that an academic dishonesty violation did occur. According to the report, students who are forced to withdraw must be employed in a full-time, paid, non-academic job for at least six months before they can petition for readmission to Harvard. The length of withdrawal is usually between two to four terms.

“Academic dishonesty” means what, again?

OH

…Plagiarism and exam cheating were the most cited concerns in Honor Council cases. Inappropriate collaboration dropped from 27.6 percent of cases in the 2019-2020 academic year to 12 percent in the 2020-2021 academic year.

…During the 2016-2017 academic year, the Honor Council heard 128 academic dishonesty cases in total and 24 students were required to withdraw from the College.

Such a sterling example now leading the school, no?

Lucky thing there’s no Honor at the top.