![]() “When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret,” she said. Ms Gay has since apologised, telling the college’s student newspaper that she had become “caught up” in a series of questions about university procedure and that “words matter”. Ms Gay is already under pressure to resign, just six months into the job, after appearing at a congressional hearing in which she said it “depends on the context” when asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would constitute a breach of Harvard’s bullying and harassment policies. The original paper by the academics contained the same sentence, using “blacks” instead of “African-Americans”. ![]() ![]() In one sentence, Ms Gay remarked that “using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that African-Americans in ‘high black-empowerment’ areas… are more active than either African-Americans in low-empowerment areas or their white counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status”. Passages of the thesis posted online showed phrases had been lifted. Harvard’s policy states that “it’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words”. Ms Gay was accused by Christopher Rufo of reusing “verbatim language, with a few trivial synonym substitutions, without providing quotation marks”, despite naming the academics whose works she had cited. she complained to teacher.who let everyone know that this was why they weren’t supposed to be playing grabass in the fucking shop.Īnyway don’t fucking sneak up on twitchy little queers with hypervigilance, it fucking sucks and you’re lucky if you get a doughnut to a face instead of a hammer.The embattled president of Harvard University has been accused of plagiarism in her own PhD dissertation amid calls for her resignation over anti-Semitism on campus.Ĭlaudine Gay, the university’s first black president, was accused on Sunday of lifting sentences from other academics for her 1997 doctoral thesis on the success of black politicians.Ī conservative blogger posted sections of her dissertation that contained almost the exact phrases of academics she had cited in her work, in an apparent breach of Harvard’s anti-plagiarism policy. The next day i ended up punching someone in the face with a doughnut in my fist because she thought i was being a big fucking buzzkill who tattled to teacher about a harmless game, and, guess what, grabbed my butt. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. When i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me.
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