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Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President's Exit Accused of Plagiarism
- not_your_vase 3y agoPlagiarism is bad, sure. Why do we find them only when we are trying to throw some shit on people? Why not before? How come that people can make a huge career out of cheating for decades, instead of kicking them out in the moment they hand in their plagiarized work? Apparently it is possible to find it. If we can find it now, we could have found it last week, and last year too. If only people cared...
- Baldbvrhunter 3y agohttps://archive.ph/hlMcz https://archive.ph/hlMcz "accused of" "they involved only a few paragraphs of a 330-page thesis." Systems like Turn-it-in gives you a % plagiarism score and it is usually >0 as it includes your citation text etc. and any direct quotes. So for a 330 page thesis a few sentences will not really make a difference. Your assessors wil let it slide as, on balance, it's not a sufficient problem compared to your original work. So this looks like a hit job to turn the Gay incident into "see, everyone does it" so they can bring her back later when everyone has moved to the next thing. We all know it is nothing to do with plagiarism but upsetting certain people.
- tjpnz 3y agoI don't think anyone was under the allusion that it would somehow bring her back. Does nothing to absolve her of the antisemitism.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y agoGay didn't say or do anything antisemitic.
- Baldbvrhunter 3y ago> When asked if a hypothetical call for the genocide of Jewish people would qualify as a violation of Harvard's code of conduct, Gay responded, "It can be, depending on the context." She later clarified, "Antisemitic rhetoric, when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct and we do take action." not exactly Wilheim Marr is it