A president is out, less than two years after his controversial appointment.
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Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. resigned this week as president of the University of South Carolina.
It was a short-lived but controversy-ridden experience for Caslen, who was appointed in July 2019. The last straw came a week ago during his commencement address, during which he referred to the South Carolina graduates as the newest alumni from the University of California. FITSNews, a website that covers South Carolina politics, later reported that a chunk of the address had been plagiarized from a 2014 speech given by Adm. William H. McRaven at the University of Texas at Austin.
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