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plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard university s claudine gay is stepping down as president, resigning after just about six months on the job. the student journalist who broke the story of her stepping down for the harvard crimson newspaper noted that this is the shortest presidential tenure in harvard s august history. it has been quite a tumultuous month for the now former present. when asked for calling for the genocide of would violate harvard campuses code of conduct. yes or no. it can be, depending on the context. from that, to multiple ....
Not activists who were fired up about academic citation, it was really right activists who feel that a lot of these ivy league presidents aren t too liberal. and so that is where some of this initial concern about her academic writing came from. and to your point about the brand, the harvard brand, we did see early applications to harvard fall by 17% year over year. a lot of the other schools, including the university of pennsylvania even, did not see that kind of a drop. we should note that the cutoff date for early application to harvard was november 1st. so that would pre date the hearing that has gotten so much attention as well as the plagiarism issues, but it still does sort of raise this concern about what all of this attention and controversy has done to the harvard brand. at some point, you have to imagine that the officials who run the school, the harvard ....
Or so. he was previously at stanford. we don t know how long garber is going to be at the helm. harvard has not announced just when they are going to launch their search for a new president, but what is clear is that garber, they are stepping into a mess. they are going to face a tall task here, trying to clean up the situation and trying to fix the harvard brand, which has clearly taken a hit. the school has seen early applications drop. as i mentioned, donors have revolted. lawmakers are really strongly criticized the university, and you have a lot of parents and students and alumni who are worried about the future of this brand. this is not going to be an easy task. thank you so much. here with us now is harvard history professor, avery johnson. she s one of hundreds of professors who signed a letter urging harvard university to keep professor gay. ....