Academic who Claudine Gay copied calls for her to be fired, says Harvard needs to get ‘back towards sanity’
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A prominent professor has called for the immediate sacking of Harvard University President Claudine Gay to steer the school “back towards sanity” after she allegedly plagiarized other academics’ work 40 times.
Political science professor Dr. Carol Swain, formerly of Vanderbilt University, claims Gay used sections of a book she published in 1993 and an article published in 1997 without crediting her.
“Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Swain posted Thursday on X, as part of a post titled “some free unsolicited advice for Harvard University”.
“She can be relieved of duties until the terms are negotiated.
“Hire the best man or woman who can steer the university back towards sanity.”
Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment from The Post Thursday.
Swain also urged the prestigious Ivy League school to “apologize to alumni, students, parents, and donors who have been harmed and embarrassed”.
“Have a sit down conversation with the people who have been harmed by the plagiarism of Gay and the system that protects her,” Swain continued.
She added she was “weighing [her] options” in response to a question from a follower about whether or not she planned to take legal action against Gay.
Plagiarism allegations against Gay first surfaced earlier this month, with accusations she lifted other scholars’ works in her 1997 doctoral thesis and that four papers published between 1993 and 2017 did not include proper attribution.
Gay remains president of the college and an investgation by the university cleared her of research misconduct.
Although she will update attribution in three instances of her work, the university said it is standing by her on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
An earlier statement on December 12 from the Harvard Corporation, the school’s highest governing body, said officials became aware of claims of plagiarism in late October and had initiated an independent review. That found no misconduct and a review of further plagiarism claims submitted earlier this week were deemed to be “without merit,” according to the WSJ.
In the aftermath of that statement, The Post revealed how Harvard had actually covered up a weeks-long investigation into whether Gay had used other researchers’ work without crediting it and hired a bulldog law firm to help cover it up.
In a statement to the Boston Globe, Gay has vehemently defended her academic rigor, saying: “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”
Swain prevoiusly blasted Gay in an essay for the same newspaper, in which she wrote: “Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution. Many of those whose work she pilfered aren’t as incensed as I am. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.”
The plagiarism allegations have attracted the attention of Congress, with the House Committee on Education and the Workforce expanding an already existing investigation into antisemitism on the college campus to include the accusations of plagiarism, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Gay was already under fire over her handling of antisemitic behavior on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel and her responses at a separate congressional hearing about them where she refused to condemn Harvard students calling for the genocide of Jews.
In the ensuing firestorm a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced a resolution calling for Gay to resign from her position, but the college also stood by her at that time too.
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