Regime Change Comes to Harvard

[Token Joken Gay Obama]

Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday amid mounting
allegations of plagiarism in her academic work and disastrous
congressional testimony in December about the university's handling of
anti-Semitism on campus. University provost Alan Garber will serve as
interim president as the school conducts a search for a new president.

Gay's announcement comes less than a month after the school's governing
body, the Harvard Corporation, declared it had commissioned an
"independent review" of her work that had exonerated her and pledged its
unanimous support for her leadership.

Gay may have stepped down, but she isn't copping to any mistakes. She
suggested in a parting message, addressed to the "Harvard Community," that
criticisms of both her scholarship and leadership are groundless.

"Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my
commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigorótwo
bedrock values that are fundamental to who I amóand frightening to be
subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus," she
wrote.

The Washington Free Beacon in mid-December documented dozens of
allegations of plagiarism in Gay's academic work.

A Monday evening report revealed additional examples of "duplicative
language without proper attribution," as the Harvard Corporation
euphemistically referred to Gay's misconduct. Those examples extended into
an eighth of Gay's 17 published pieces.

The school's student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, editorialized in
Gay's defense until the end, writing on Dec. 31, "President Gay
Plagiarized, but She Should Stay. For Now."

"A sober-minded assessment of the plagiarism charges indicates that Gay's
behavior constitutes plagiarism, but since the errors do not appear
intentional, they do not warrant her resignation," the paper said.

Dissenting voices also emerged, though. The paper published an op-ed by a
member of Harvard's Honor Council, which adjudicates cases of plagiarism
and academic dishonesty, arguing that Gay was being held to a lower
standard than Harvard's undergraduate students, who are routinely
disciplined for similar infractions.

And some Harvard students say they are happy to see her go. "I'm glad to
see that Harvard has decided new leadership is needed to begin to pull us
out from these many scandals and combat antisemitism on campus," said Alex
Bernat, a member of the Crimson's editorial board.

The plagiarism scandal followed on the heels of Gay's disastrous response
to an outpouring of anti-Semitism on campus after Hamas's Oct. 7 rampage
on Israel. After 33 Harvard student groups signed on to a statement
blaming Israel for the attacks, Gay herself issued a mealy-mouthed
statement lamenting "the death and destruction unleashed." And while the
school flew the Ukrainian flag in solidarity with the embattled country
after Russia invaded in 2022, it resisted calls to fly an Israeli flag
after Oct. 7 as pro-Palestinian student groups became increasingly
emboldened in their efforts to disrupt campus life with aggressive
protests against Israel's military response.

That was capped by her testimony on Capitol Hill, during which she hemmed
and hawed when asked whether, at Harvard, calling for the genocide for the
Jews constituted harassment. "It depends on the context," she told Rep.
Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), a statement that required clean-up after the
fact.

"I am sorry," Gay told the Crimson after her testimony. "When words
amplify distress and pain, I don't know how you could feel anything but
regret."

Gay's resignation is now likely to turn attention to the 12-member Harvard
Corporation, which claimed to have conducted an investigation into the
plagiarism charges against Gay but has never revealed who conducted it.
The corporation also retained the top-dollar defamation firm Clare Locke
to rebut the allegations and threatened to sue the New York Post for
"immense" damages for publishing a story detailing the charges, the Post
reported.

The corporation's members include the former chairman of American Express,
Ken Chenault; the former president of Princeton University, Shirley
Tilghman; and the former president of Amherst College, Biddy Martin. It is
led by Obama administration secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker.

The Harvard Corporation said in a statement on Gay's resignation that she
had acknowledged "missteps," though her resignation letter did not cite
any.

"These past several months have seen Harvard and higher education face a
series of sustained and unprecedented challenges," the corporation said in
an email on Tuesday. "In the face of escalating controversy and conflict,
President Gay and the Fellows have sought to be guided by the best
interests of the institution whose future progress and well-being we are
together committed to uphold. Ö It is with that overarching consideration
in mind that we have accepted her resignation."

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plagiarism

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[George Lincoln Rockwell]

>
>Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday amid mounting
>allegations of plagiarism in her academic work and disastrous
>congressional testimony in December about the university's handling of
>anti-Semitism on campus. University provost Alan Garber will serve as
>interim president as the school conducts a search for a new president.
>

Trump's prison fate won't be very friendly because of how they treat rapists
in the big house.

[Absence of ethics]

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> Ethics and objectiveness are far and few between in the modern world
> of "journalism".

The Associated Press’s latest foreign donor wants to transform
journalists into "community activists on climate change." The AP doesn’t
seem interested in publicizing that.

The KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit that seeks the "rapid phase-out of
fossil fuels," gave the equivalent of $300,000, to the Associated Press
in December 2022, according to the charity’s annual report. Though the
AP says it is committed to the "highest practicable degree of
transparency" regarding its backers, the news outlet added the KR
Foundation to its list of current philanthropic supporters only this
month, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of the AP website.

It’s the latest left-wing charity to fund the Associated Press, which
says it is read by four billion people each day. Philanthropies that
support packing the Supreme Court, defunding the police, and other
left-wing initiatives have contributed millions of dollars to the AP in
recent years, the Free Beacon reported.

The KR Foundation sees media outlets as prime targets to push its
climate agenda. It funds media outlets to "significantly" influence "the
media narrative around climate policy." Its grant to the Associated
Press, which extends through December 2024, is to be used for the wire
service’s Global Scholars Network.

While the AP says it maintains editorial independence from its
deep-pocketed donors, its climate reporting reflects many of the KR
Foundation’s core beliefs. A recent AP story about the United Nations'
annual climate conference praised negotiators who sought a "phase-out of
fossil fuels" in order to save "a planet in peril" that is "dangerously
warming." An article last month asked: "How did humans get to the brink
of crashing climate?"

Major charitable organizations—the Hewlett Foundation, Rockefeller
Foundation, and others—last year began funding the AP’s "sweeping
climate journalism initiative" to "infuse climate coverage in all
aspects" of the outlet’s reporting.

The AP is one of dozens of organizations the KR Foundation supports as
part of its "coordinated effort to phase out fossil fuels." Its
initiatives include a public pressure campaign to "get U.S. banks out of
fossil fuels." KR Foundation wants to block new oil and gas drilling
projects, and has called for "some existing [oil and gas] infrastructure
… to be retired early."

The KR Foundation awarded the equivalent of more than $488,000 to
Children’s Radio Foundation in 2018 to train radio journalists in Africa
"as community activists on climate change."

The foundation backs a ban on oil company advertisements in Australia
and the Netherlands, and aims to shape the "influence industry" to mount
public pressure on major organizations to cut ties with fossil fuels
companies. It also funds Law Students for Climate Accountability, a
California-based group that pressures law firms "to phase out fossil
fuel representation."

The AP has come under scrutiny of late for its liberal slant. AllSides,
which tracks media bias, last year changed its rating for the AP from
"center" to "leans left," because of bias in the stories it chooses to
cover. The AP recently barred its reporters from referring to Hamas as a
terrorist organization. The AP, which once shared office space with
Hamas in Gaza, came under fire in December for calling Israel’s response
to Hamas’s invasion "among the most destructive" military campaigns "in
recent history."

The AP and KR Foundation did not respond to requests for comment.

Published under: AP , Associated Press , Climate Change , Democratic
Donors , Hamas , Media Bias

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up-that-trains-journalists-as-climate-change-activists/