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she had written, basically engaging in the same type of behavior. john: so in the new york times opinion piece she wrote she is a victim and much of the left wing media would seem to agree with her. harvard s first black president, a woman named claudine gay resigned her position. everything from a bad faith hearing on campus antisemitism to unfounded plagiarism charges were thrown at her. i don t think it s fair to say all of her critics were racist, but certainly a few of them were. it looks as though she was targeted. john: as you pointed out, philip, plagiarism is a big deal, a big deal for an incoming freshman. certainly would be a big deal for a president of a prestigious university like harvard. so is this in any way related to racism? no, not at all. and in fact, harvard university regularly brings up charges against students that violate its honor code, plagiarism in the last year they released
nearly 50 cases of plagiarism she was discovered to have committed. philip magnus helped uncover some of the examples of plagiarism committed by gay. you collaborated with chris ruffo to look into the writings and alleged plagiarism. what did you find? basically we found a pattern, a pattern that crossed 20 years of her work, affected almost half of her academic output in her career, and eventually came together as 50 different instances of plagiarism and a list that seems to be growing today. john: in this new york times opinion piece she acknowledges she did not give proper citation and attribution to the works of other scholars, but says never did i try to claim the work as my own, never did i misrepresent it. but is there a difference between stealing somebody else s idea and quoting somebody else without giving proper attribution, when you were operating particularly at this level? well, according to harvard s own policies, what they apply in
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