{"id":1051,"date":"2024-01-02T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/claudine-gay-resigns\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:18:10","slug":"claudine-gay-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/claudine-gay-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudine Gay Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/harvard-president-gay-resigns-harvard-crimson-student-newspaper-2024-01-02\/\">Good riddance<\/a>:&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Gay, Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Dec. 5 about a rise in antisemitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The trio declined to give a definitive &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot; answer to Republican Representative Elise Stefanik&#39;s question as to whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools&#39; codes of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, saying they had to balance it against free speech protections.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\">\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Elise Stefanik is the hero here, a profile in civil courage. Anyone who thinks that the right to free speech includes the right to incite violence is a moral defective.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">More than 70 U.S. lawmakers signed onto a letter demanding that the governing boards of the three universities remove the presidents, citing dissatisfaction with their testimony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">However, Gay received support from some of her colleagues at Harvard. Several hundred faculty members last month&#0160;<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__underline_default__2prE_\" data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/harvard-faculty-rally-around-beleaguered-university-president-claudine-gay-2023-12-11\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">signed<\/a>&#0160;a petition asking school administrators to not bend to political pressure to fire the school&#39;s president over her testimony.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Gay has also been hit with accusations of plagiarism. She <a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__underline_default__2prE_\" data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/embattled-harvard-president-will-submit-dissertation-edits-after-plagiarism-2023-12-21\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">planned to submit<\/a>&#0160;three corrections to her 1997 dissertation after a committee investigating plagiarism allegations against her found that she had made citation errors, a university spokesperson said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Is it surprising that faculty at Harvard have such low academic standards and consider plagiarism a peccadillo, if even that, when POTUS is a brazen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/seventeen-times-biden-lied-plagiarized-and-exaggerated\/ar-AA1lpd4C\">proven plagiarist<\/a> and his wife &#39;Dr.&#39; Jill Biden&#39;s dissertation is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jill-biden-doctorate-garbage-because-212259558.html\">garbage<\/a>? As the saying goes &quot;The fish stinks from the head.&quot;&#0160; <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Joey B really does set the tone, or rather the odor, of his entire malodorous mal-administration and the rest of the nation. Another prime mover of mendacity is the brazen liar and Orwellian truth-twister, Alejandro &quot;The border is secure&quot; Mayorkas, Director of &#8212; wait for it &#8212; <em>Homeland Security.<\/em>&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good riddance:&#0160; Gay, Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Dec. 5 about a rise in antisemitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October. The trio declined to give a definitive &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot; answer to Republican Representative Elise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/claudine-gay-resigns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Claudine Gay Resigns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-race","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}