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Harvard President Resigns

“ But she defended the value and originality of her scholarship, even while conceding that she had duplicated language from other academics “without proper attribution” in her published work. Several of the scholars whose work Gay was accused of plagiarizing had previously told news outlets they considered the citation issues highlighted by conservative media outlets to be relatively minor, or even  not plagiarism at all , with one scholar  calling it  “technically plagiarism” but “minor-to-inconsequential”, and  another saying : “This isn’t even close to an example of academic plagiarism.” The above quote is taken from an article on the Guardian website. Here is a link to the site and the entire article. https://www.yahoo.com/news/claudine-gay-warns-broader-war-031530581.html   I am going to comment on this Havard president's resignation. Let us begin with the antisemitism on campus issue. The question she was asked was a simple yes or no.   The answ...