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[gay racist...] Obama secretly pushed Harvard to keep president Claudine Gay despite campus antisemitism, plagiarism controversies: report
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Former President Barack Obama has secretly lobbied Harvard University
officials to stick by embattled President Claudine Gay as she faces
pressure to resign for giving cover to antisemitism on campus and for
committing plagiarism.
Obama, 62, a 1991 graduate of Harvard’s law school, privately urged the
university to let Gay remain in office after she testified Dec. 5 before
the House Education and Workforce Committee that calls for the genocide of
Jews may be permissible under the school’s code of conduct, depending on
“context,” according to a report out Friday.
“It sounded like people were being asked to close ranks to keep the
broader administration stable — including its composition,” a source told
Jewish Insider of the former president’s clandestine effort.
The report did not say whether that effort had continued after Gay’s
scholarship was called into question following her testimony for dozens of
instances of alleged plagiarism.
A spokeswoman for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for
comment. Harvard declined to comment on the matter to Jewish Insider.
Gay’s fate partially lies in the hands of former Obama Commerce Secretary
Penny Pritzker, a member of a prominent Chicago family — her brother is
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker — who serves as senior fellow of the Harvard
Corporation, the university’s highest governing body which recently probed
the president’s academic publications for evidence of plagiarism.
Gay previously told the Boston Globe in a statement, “I stand by the
integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure
my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”
On Wednesday, Harvard announced that “examples of duplicative language
without appropriate attribution” were found in Gay’s 1997 doctoral
dissertation following a review by a four-person Corporation subcommittee.
A separate review by a three-person independent panel also commissioned by
the Harvard Corporation determined no other improper citations were
discovered in “all of President Gay’s other published works.”
The same day, the House Education Committee sent a letter to Pritzker
demanding the university hand over internal records about its handling of
the scandal after having launched an earlier probe over antisemitism at
Harvard.
“If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty
accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens
its mission and the value of its education,” wrote the panel’s chairwoman,
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC).
“Students must be evaluated fairly, under known standards — and have a
right to see that faculty are, too.”
During the hearing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grilled Gay, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth and then-University of
Pennsylvania president Liz Magill for refusing to denounce antisemitic
protests on their campuses.
Each emphasized that antisemitic speech — including calls for the genocide
of Jews — did not necessarily violate university policies and were
context-dependent.
Magill resigned one week after the hearing, while Gay and Kornbluth have
remained at their posts.
Pritzker, a 1981 Harvard grad, was appointed senior fellow of the
Corporation in 2022 after having donated $100 million to the university —
and she helmed the search committee that appointed Gay as the school’s new
president last year.
When announcing the pick in December 2022, she praised Gay as “a
remarkable leader who is profoundly devoted to sustaining and enhancing
Harvard’s academic excellence.”
Following fresh plagiarism allegations against the president this week,
many scholars have demanded Gay’s resignation on top of those who sought
it after her congressional hearing — including one professor whose work
the Harvard president allegedly copied.
“Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Vanderbilt University political science
professor Carol Swain said Thursday on X. “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.”
Swain said Gay had lifted sections from a book she published in 1993 and
an article she wrote in 1997 without proper attribution.
New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguistics professor
John McWhorter has also called for Gay to step down, saying the more than
40 instances of improper attribution in her scholarly work “make it
untenable for her to remain in office.”
Pritzker has yet to publicly weigh in on the controversy, but the Harvard
Corporation’s board members said in a Dec. 12 statement that they
“reaffirm” their support for Gay’s leadership.
“Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is
the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very
serious societal issues we are facing,” the board said.
However, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin told the New York
Times that Pritzker, who is Jewish, had privately agreed that Harvard’s
response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack had been tepid and a statement
needed to be released in solidarity with Israel.
Meanwhile, loyal supporters of the school have paused hundreds of millions
of dollars in donations over Gay’s decision to stand by student groups
that blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’ atrocities.
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claudine-gay-report/
Former President Barack Obama has secretly lobbied Harvard University
officials to stick by embattled President Claudine Gay as she faces
pressure to resign for giving cover to antisemitism on campus and for
committing plagiarism.
Obama, 62, a 1991 graduate of Harvard’s law school, privately urged the
university to let Gay remain in office after she testified Dec. 5 before
the House Education and Workforce Committee that calls for the genocide of
Jews may be permissible under the school’s code of conduct, depending on
“context,” according to a report out Friday.
“It sounded like people were being asked to close ranks to keep the
broader administration stable — including its composition,” a source told
Jewish Insider of the former president’s clandestine effort.
The report did not say whether that effort had continued after Gay’s
scholarship was called into question following her testimony for dozens of
instances of alleged plagiarism.
A spokeswoman for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for
comment. Harvard declined to comment on the matter to Jewish Insider.
Gay’s fate partially lies in the hands of former Obama Commerce Secretary
Penny Pritzker, a member of a prominent Chicago family — her brother is
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker — who serves as senior fellow of the Harvard
Corporation, the university’s highest governing body which recently probed
the president’s academic publications for evidence of plagiarism.
Gay previously told the Boston Globe in a statement, “I stand by the
integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure
my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”
On Wednesday, Harvard announced that “examples of duplicative language
without appropriate attribution” were found in Gay’s 1997 doctoral
dissertation following a review by a four-person Corporation subcommittee.
A separate review by a three-person independent panel also commissioned by
the Harvard Corporation determined no other improper citations were
discovered in “all of President Gay’s other published works.”
The same day, the House Education Committee sent a letter to Pritzker
demanding the university hand over internal records about its handling of
the scandal after having launched an earlier probe over antisemitism at
Harvard.
“If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty
accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens
its mission and the value of its education,” wrote the panel’s chairwoman,
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC).
“Students must be evaluated fairly, under known standards — and have a
right to see that faculty are, too.”
During the hearing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grilled Gay, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth and then-University of
Pennsylvania president Liz Magill for refusing to denounce antisemitic
protests on their campuses.
Each emphasized that antisemitic speech — including calls for the genocide
of Jews — did not necessarily violate university policies and were
context-dependent.
Magill resigned one week after the hearing, while Gay and Kornbluth have
remained at their posts.
Pritzker, a 1981 Harvard grad, was appointed senior fellow of the
Corporation in 2022 after having donated $100 million to the university —
and she helmed the search committee that appointed Gay as the school’s new
president last year.
When announcing the pick in December 2022, she praised Gay as “a
remarkable leader who is profoundly devoted to sustaining and enhancing
Harvard’s academic excellence.”
Following fresh plagiarism allegations against the president this week,
many scholars have demanded Gay’s resignation on top of those who sought
it after her congressional hearing — including one professor whose work
the Harvard president allegedly copied.
“Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Vanderbilt University political science
professor Carol Swain said Thursday on X. “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.”
Swain said Gay had lifted sections from a book she published in 1993 and
an article she wrote in 1997 without proper attribution.
New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguistics professor
John McWhorter has also called for Gay to step down, saying the more than
40 instances of improper attribution in her scholarly work “make it
untenable for her to remain in office.”
Pritzker has yet to publicly weigh in on the controversy, but the Harvard
Corporation’s board members said in a Dec. 12 statement that they
“reaffirm” their support for Gay’s leadership.
“Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is
the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very
serious societal issues we are facing,” the board said.
However, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin told the New York
Times that Pritzker, who is Jewish, had privately agreed that Harvard’s
response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack had been tepid and a statement
needed to be released in solidarity with Israel.
Meanwhile, loyal supporters of the school have paused hundreds of millions
of dollars in donations over Gay’s decision to stand by student groups
that blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’ atrocities.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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