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Harvard's Claudine Gay resigns following more plagiarism charges
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1:31Now PlayingHarvard University president Claudine Gay announced Tuesday she is stepping down from leading the prestigious college, following weeks of controversy over campus politics and her own academic record. NY Post reporter Melissa Koenig shares this story.
Gay allegedly lifted nearly half a page of material verbatim from a fellow political scientist’s work in a 2001 article, according to a complaint filed with the university Monday and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The complaint claims Gay’s article “The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California” borrows four sentences from David Canon’s 1999 book “Race Redistricting and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts” without quotation marks and with only minor edits.
Gay did not cite Canon near the passage, though his name does appear in the bibliography, according to the complaint, which claims there are nearly 50 plagiarism allegations against her.
In one passage, Canon — a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin — wrote: “The VRA is often cited as one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation passed in our nation’s history.”
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