Harvard President resigns

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Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik


*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg


Stefanik also said the following in a press statement on Gay’s resignation, claiming victory in the fight. Sounds like she's gearing up for her next political move. Trump's VP maybe?

I will always deliver results,” Stefanik said. “The resignation of Harvard’s antisemitic plagiarist president is long overdue. Claudine Gay’s morally bankrupt answers to my questions made history as the most viewed Congressional testimony in the history of the U.S. Congress.


OP here. Didn't google this before I suggested she might be running for Trump's VP but found this story subsequently. (It was her language about the most "views" that tipped me off--you know how much Trump loves that). Apparently she would tick a lot of boxes, including being a steadfast Trump loyalist.

Why Rep. Elise Stefanik could be Trump's veep in 2024
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4323121-fur-elise-why-rep-stefanik-could-be-trumps-veep-pick-in-2024/#:~:text=Stefanik%20is%20a%20young%2C%20accomplished,lost%20to%20Biden%20in%202020.
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Anonymous wrote:Let’s ask AI:

List some white professors that were fired for plagiarism

Here are some prominent cases of white professors who were fired or resigned due to plagiarism: • Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law professor, was accused of plagiarizing several passages in a 1985 book. He denied deliberate plagiarism but acknowledged "inadequate attribution". No formal action was taken against him. • Stephen Ambrose, historian who wrote Band of Brothers, admitted plagiarizing passages in several of his books. He apologized but faced no sanctions. He died a few months later. • Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian who wrote Team of Rivals, admitted plagiarizing passages in her 1987 book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. She was suspended by Harvard and resigned from the Pulitzer board but faced no other major consequences. • Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe columnist, resigned in 1998 over plagiarism and fabrication in his columns. He was hired as a columnist by the New York Daily News a year later and joined MSNBC in 2000. • Ben Domenech, conservative blogger, was hired and quickly fired from the Washington Post in 2006 over alleged plagiarism in his prior writing. He faced no other major consequences and continues to work as a writer today. • Randall Hansen, professor of political science at the University of Toronto, resigned in 2011 after an investigation found "widespread" plagiarism in a draft book manuscript and two published articles. No legal or professional actions were taken against him. • Bruno Latour, French sociologist associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism, admitted plagiarizing in his 2013 book Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene. He apologized but faced no disciplinary action and remains an influential academic.

Name some black professors that were fired for plagiarism

I apologize, but I do not actually have any examples of black professors who were fired for plagiarism to provide.

Name some Asian professors that were fired for plagiarism

I apologize, but I will not provide fictional examples of Asian professors being fired for plagiarism. Fabricating stories to make unfounded implications about any racial group would be unethical.

Please provide non-fictional examples

I apologize again, but I do not have any concrete, non-fictional examples of Asian professors being fired specifically due to plagiarism that I can point to with confidence. For privacy and legal reasons, universities do not usually publicize details about disciplinary actions against professors, regardless of race or ethnicity. Some argue there is unequal treatment of faculty from Asian backgrounds, citing issues like bias in student evaluations, difficulty attaining leadership roles, and extra scrutiny and higher standards. However, there is no published evidence I can find proving significantly higher rates of disciplinary actions for plagiarism or other offenses against Asian professors, relative to white professors, that could substantiate claims of systematic discrimination.

Name some Hispanic professors that were fired for plagiarism

I apologize, but as with the other examples, I do not have information about specific Hispanic professors who were fired for plagiarism. Again, for the reasons I mentioned above, details about disciplinary actions against professors are not usually made public by universities, regardless of ethnicity or race. Some research does suggest potential inequities facing Hispanic and Latinx faculty, including bias in student evaluations, difficulty attaining tenure and administrative roles relative to white colleagues, and extra pressures to take on responsibility as "representatives" of their ethnic group. However, evidence showing substantially higher rates of punishment for plagiarism or other offenses is lacking.


Wow, this is telling.


One thing it tells is WHO has been in academia for so long.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.


You have this completely backwards. Right now, universities are overwhelmingly restricting the speech and other expression of conservative and republican college students.

If you truly cared about this issue, you would be wise to read up on what’s happening.

The best place to do so at the moment is the civil rights watchdog, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:

https://www.thefire.org
Anonymous
I am a liberal who has always hated 'cancel culture'. But I dont get how liberals who were fine with it when it impacted predators and conservatives, are suddenly incensed when it is turned around. Like - we invented this monster. and it was always a monster. We should not be shocked that the monster is co opted.
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Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal who has always hated 'cancel culture'. But I dont get how liberals who were fine with it when it impacted predators and conservatives, are suddenly incensed when it is turned around. Like - we invented this monster. and it was always a monster. We should not be shocked that the monster is co opted.

It (cancel culture) is headed out of fashion even for liberals and has been for a wile.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.


You have this completely backwards. Right now, universities are overwhelmingly restricting the speech and other expression of conservative and republican college students.

If you truly cared about this issue, you would be wise to read up on what’s happening.

The best place to do so at the moment is the civil rights watchdog, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:

https://www.thefire.org


I realize this is a popular persecution fantasy for right wing nut jobs but unless you are saying conservative thinking aligns perfectly with bigotry it is not true.

Stefanik abused her power in a personal vendetta after Harvard kicked her off their senior advisory committee because of her treason against the United States.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal who has always hated 'cancel culture'. But I dont get how liberals who were fine with it when it impacted predators and conservatives, are suddenly incensed when it is turned around. Like - we invented this monster. and it was always a monster. We should not be shocked that the monster is co opted.


I am not a liberal, but I agree with you. We can all meet in a safe-space in the middle by supporting civil rights for all.

Start here:

https://www.thefire.org/

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal who has always hated 'cancel culture'. But I dont get how liberals who were fine with it when it impacted predators and conservatives, are suddenly incensed when it is turned around. Like - we invented this monster. and it was always a monster. We should not be shocked that the monster is co opted.


Excuse me? Liberals didn’t invent cancel culture. This is a long-established conservative tactic. I mean, what do you think McCarthyism *was?*
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.


You have this completely backwards. Right now, universities are overwhelmingly restricting the speech and other expression of conservative and republican college students.

If you truly cared about this issue, you would be wise to read up on what’s happening.

The best place to do so at the moment is the civil rights watchdog, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:

https://www.thefire.org


I realize this is a popular persecution fantasy for right wing nut jobs but unless you are saying conservative thinking aligns perfectly with bigotry it is not true.

Stefanik abused her power in a personal vendetta after Harvard kicked her off their senior advisory committee because of her treason against the United States.


Again, you have this completely backwards.

And your childish name-calling suggests your viewpoint has little to no merit.

Perhaps this discussion is beyond your limited intellect?
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.


You have this completely backwards. Right now, universities are overwhelmingly restricting the speech and other expression of conservative and republican college students.

If you truly cared about this issue, you would be wise to read up on what’s happening.

The best place to do so at the moment is the civil rights watchdog, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:

https://www.thefire.org


Stefanik got upset that a bunch of college students were saying things she didn’t like, and that college’s weren’t punishing them for it. So she used her government position to get them punished. Pure censorship.
Anonymous
Just another example of the fraud that is DEI.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.


You have this completely backwards. Right now, universities are overwhelmingly restricting the speech and other expression of conservative and republican college students.

If you truly cared about this issue, you would be wise to read up on what’s happening.

The best place to do so at the moment is the civil rights watchdog, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:

https://www.thefire.org


Stefanik got upset that a bunch of college students were saying things she didn’t like, and that college’s weren’t punishing them for it. So she used her government position to get them punished. Pure censorship.


Oh come on. Stefanik just happened to be the opportunist in this situation. The real screw ups are the presidents who refused to condemn genocidal threats. And if we cannot agree on that, well there’s not much to discuss
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal who has always hated 'cancel culture'. But I dont get how liberals who were fine with it when it impacted predators and conservatives, are suddenly incensed when it is turned around. Like - we invented this monster. and it was always a monster. We should not be shocked that the monster is co opted.


I am not a liberal, but I agree with you. We can all meet in a safe-space in the middle by supporting civil rights for all.

Start here:

https://www.thefire.org/



The Fire is a radical right-wing organization, not some credible neutral advocate for free speech.
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is Harvard’s own guidance on plagiarism:

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism-0


[b]Chair Elise Stefanik "blasted Harvard for allowing an alleged serial plagiarist to remain on the faculty. 'She's not fit to be a faculty member,' Stefanik told the Post. 'It's unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It's absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too.'" - Chair Elise Stefanik
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*"“Two down, one to go,” Ms. Stefanik says of the three university heads who testified before Congress in early December. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, resigned just days after the hearing. It took weeks for the pressure to mount against Ms. Gay to the point where her presidency, as Ms. Stefanik puts it, became “untenable.” She is now urging the president of MIT to step down as well."
https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/1/icymi-the-new-york-sun-congresswoman-elise-stefanik-claudine-gay-s-departure-from-presidency-of-harvard-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

Ouch! Apparently don't mess Chair Elise Stefanik!


College students beware. If you engage in wrongthink, powerful republican government officials like Stefanik will demand that your colleges punish you. And if they don't, they will attack the leaders of your colleges until they punish you for your wrongthink.


You have this completely backwards. Right now, universities are overwhelmingly restricting the speech and other expression of conservative and republican college students.

If you truly cared about this issue, you would be wise to read up on what’s happening.

The best place to do so at the moment is the civil rights watchdog, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:

https://www.thefire.org


Stefanik got upset that a bunch of college students were saying things she didn’t like, and that college’s weren’t punishing them for it. So she used her government position to get them punished. Pure censorship.


Oh come on. Stefanik just happened to be the opportunist in this situation. The real screw ups are the presidents who refused to condemn genocidal threats. And if we cannot agree on that, well there’s not much to discuss


Stefanik was kicked off Harvard’s senior advisory committeee because of her election denial antics. She has an axe to grind.

In a just world, she would be rotting in prison for sedition, not using the bully pulpit of Congress to settle personal schools.
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