president of stanford was forced to resign for faulty research. the university of south carolina president, a white man, had to resign after plagiarizing just one speech. not 50, but one. even the president of u penn was fired after flunking the same hearing gay did. gay got let off easier than all of these whites. she got to keep your million dollar salary and her job at harvard. everybody else got canned and couldn t keep the money. if anything, gay was treated better. so what s next? liberals say the next president of harvard must be a black woman. prime time would to nominate newly minted professor lori lightfoot. you can find a qualified black woman. there s hundreds of them. no one has a problem with that. but hiring should be based on an array of factors. making diversity the top factor without regard for merit, just
job? why does the general counsel who worded this crafty statement that she read in front of congress, why do they get to stay? all of them need to go, plus the over 150-plus professors that signed a letter in agreement of her staying. i know some people are celebrating this and by the way why didn t you vet her to look at her plagiarism? she got the ph.d. in 1998. i think i was 6 at the time. y all had plenty of time to look through her work. apparently people had already reported some of the stuff was plagiarized and y all didn t take any of that into consideration before you all appointed her? i just think they need to clean house in the entire campus? brian: same thing with u penn that president resigned and still on the faculty keeps the salary. if it wasn t for the plagiarism she would still be there. barack obama jumped to her cause i want her there and want her to stay. the plagiarism was too much and it kept growing. christopher rufo he looked into it he did some investigati
moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual. harvard announced that alan garber, who currently serves as provost will step in as interim president, while acknowledging gay s commitment to the scol. it is with that overarching consideration in mind that we have accepted gay s resignation harvard s leadership wrote, adding we do so with sorrow. conservative media had been unearthing multiple examples of plaj giarism include in her pas works including almost an entire paragraph without citation after she along with the presidents of upenn and m.i.t. gave an answer that was widely considered too legal in a december 5th congressional hearing about antisemitism on campus. so the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct.
plagiarism in gay s past works including entire paragraphs being lifted almost verbatim in her 1997 ph.d. dissertation without citation after she and along with the presidents of u penn and m.i.t. gave an answer that was widely considered too legal in a december 5 congressional hearing about anti-semitism on campus. so the answer is yes that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct? again, it depends on the context. reporter: fallout from the hearing also resulted in the resignation of u penn president made m agile h. and we ve seen a failure of leadership, a failure of moral leadership.agile h. and we ve seen a failure of leadership, a failure of moral leadership. this would not have happened
again, it depends on the context. reporter: fallout from the hearing also resulted in the resignation of u penn s president liz magill. elise stefanik wasted no time responding to today s comments. as a harvard graduate myself, we have seen a failure of leadership from claudine gay, a failure of moral leadership. this accountability would not have happened were it not for that congressional hearing. reporter: stefanik underscoring that her investigation will continue. only when it comes to antisemitic hate speech that the school tolerates it and gives these kind of laurie equivocal answers. and so i think this is kind over the bigger issue that we ve got to deal with. reporter: gay s tenure as president was the shortest in harvard s nearly 400-year history. she was also the school s first black president and only the second woman at the helm. in her resignation, she wrote att has been frightening to