Harvard University president Claudine Gay was hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism on Monday in a complaint filed with the university, breathing fresh life into a scandal that has embroiled her nascent presidency and pushing the total number of allegations near 50.
Seven of Gay's 17 published works have already been impacted by the scandal, but the new charges, which have not been previously reported, extend into an eighth: In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of material verbatim from another scholar, David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Though Harvard's governing board, the Harvard Corporation, said in mid-December that it had reviewed Gay's published oeuvre and found several cases of "Inadequate citation," it did not identify any of the examples described in the new complaint, which was submitted to the school's research integrity officer, Stacey Springs, and obtained by the Free Beacon.
While some of Gay's defenders have claimed that technical descriptions do not require attribution in the social sciences, since there are only so many ways to explain a method or a formula, a Harvard handbook from 1998-the year Gay completed her dissertation-says otherwise.
Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor, told the New York Times that the plagiarism charges were ginned up by "Professional vilifiers" and "Bad faith" actors-and went on to suggest the university may not cooperate with the congressional investigation underway into its adjudication of Gay's work.
Beyond outlining the new charges against Gay, the latest complaint - 25 pages of which are devoted to outlining the various examples of Gay's alleged plagiarism - argues that Harvard's legal saber-rattling violated its research misconduct policy for faculty, which forbids retaliation against complainants.
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