Gay & politics
Schaffer, M. (2024, Jan. 5). The Right Is Dancing on Claudine Gay’s Grave. But It Was the Center-Left That Did Her In. Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/05/claudine-gay-resignation-battle-column-00133820.
This is an interesting article, but it's entirely from the political angle, as if the sinking of Gay had nothing to do with the plagiarism itself. It doesn't even touch the central plagiarism questions that I have always been more interested in. To me it's more a question of justice. Was she guilty? If so, should she have known she was guilty?
Personally I think left, right, ultra-left, & ultra-right all want, whether they know it or not, a disciplined scholar as President of Harvard. This person does not have to be famous or ground-breaking in his/her field. But he/she has to know what they go through on a day-to-day basis. And not to have cheated on that very same path.
This is an interesting article, but it's entirely from the political angle, as if the sinking of Gay had nothing to do with the plagiarism itself. It doesn't even touch the central plagiarism questions that I have always been more interested in. To me it's more a question of justice. Was she guilty? If so, should she have known she was guilty?
Personally I think left, right, ultra-left, & ultra-right all want, whether they know it or not, a disciplined scholar as President of Harvard. This person does not have to be famous or ground-breaking in his/her field. But he/she has to know what they go through on a day-to-day basis. And not to have cheated on that very same path.
posted by tom @ 6:26 AM
This weblog is about my efforts, sometimes futile, to teach about plagiarism to international students. Deeper in the blog is a documented story (if the newspaper articles still are there) about how a really nice guy made a mistake...however, that's water under the bridge. My classes have always been full of nice people who made mistakes.
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