Scholars Find Dozens More Examples of Plagiarism by Harvard President Claudine Gay

It's been a rough week for Harvard University President Claudine Gay. First, she was roundly criticized for her disastrous Dec. 5 congressional testimony where she and the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania claimed that calls for genocide against Jews on their campuses needed to be placed into “context.”

Donors promptly yanked hundreds of millions of dollars in future gifts from UPenn, and president Liz Magill was forced to resign Saturday as a result of the raging controversy. The news got even worse Monday for Gay as a new report alleges that scholars reviewing her work found dozens more examples of plagiarism in her past.

In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors—including two of her colleagues in Harvard University’s department of government—without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay’s dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo and Karlstack’s Chris Brunet.

Alexander Riley, a sociologist at Bucknell University, doesn't see how she can continue at the Ivy League school: "The question here is whether the president of an elite institution such as Harvard can feasibly have an academic record this marred by obvious plagiarism," he said. "I do not see how Harvard could possibly justify keeping her in that position in light of this evidence."

Her testimony showed she's terrible at being a leader, and her rampant plagiarism shows she's not a qualified academic either.

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SNL Alum Dropped Out of Awful Antisemitism Sketch Minutes Before Airtime, Was 'Uncomfortable'

Saturday Night Live reached a new low with their cold opening over the weekend, where they ruthlessly mocked Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for questioning three university presidents during Dec. 5 congressional hearings about antisemitic activity on their campuses.

Instead of lampooning the university presidents, who disturbingly claimed that the calls for genocide by their students and professors needed to be taken "in context," they portrayed Stefanik, who asked some very important questions, as a raving lunatic with anti-Jewish feelings.

Turns out one of their own alum -- eleven-year SNL veteran Cecily Strong -- wasn't down with the antisemitic skit either and backed out "last minute" -- just before the show was due to go live. She was "uncomfortable" with the skit, according to a backstage account.

Newcomer Chloe Troast was thrust into the limelight, and while I understand that it's a tough job being assigned a part right before airtime, she was still spectacularly bad and unfunny.

In an exclusive statement, Alex DeGrasse, Stefanik’s Senior Advisor, told The Post: “Elise did not watch it. However, her office was flooded with messages from thousands of Americans across the political spectrum — Democrats and Republicans — who were appalled and disgusted by the antisemitic trash spewed by unfunny, morally bankrupt ‘comedians.’

“SNL made history with the worst cold open ever because everyone knows there is absolutely no humor in the vile answers from the university presidents regarding their failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people.”

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