Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5.
Gay weathered scandal after scandal over her brief tenure, facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work.
So you’re going to ignore the fact that the people she cited didn’t think it was plagiarism either. Again, the difference is in whether or not the quotation used was intended to be passed off as the author’s own words which, in those cases, clearly weren’t since they were in technical summaries and accompanying visualizations that were different from the original context. Saying “the definition of x is y and z” without citing the dictionary is negligence. It’s not plagiarism.
If what you’re describing isn’t a conspiracy theory then it’s also not a conspiracy theory to point out that no other former President of Harvard has had the same type of scrutiny brought against them and that she’s being treated differently because of her status, right?