With the forced resignation of President Claudine Gay, Harvard University may be thinking that the month-long scandal surrounding her tenure is finally over.

Remember, Gay resigned amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism without contesting the charges. She has proven unable or unwilling to discipline those who engage in anti-Semitic behavior on campus.

But gay expulsion is not the end of Harvard's dilemma. Rather, it is a beginning.

Separate press releases from Gay and Harvard cited racism as a reason for her dismissal.

Gay also did not address his failure to stop anti-Semitism on campus or his record of blatant plagiarism.

But for a variety of reasons, playing the race card reflects poorly on both.

For one thing, Gaye's poor publication record–no books of her own published, just 11 articles–somehow earned her a full professorship and provostship at Harvard University. That's what I got. It is unprecedented for such a thin resume to lead to academic stardom.

Second, the University of Pennsylvania forced the resignation of its president, Liz McGill. She sat next to Gay in a now-infamous Congressional hearing in which she claimed he was unable to discipline blatant anti-Semitism on campus.

Instead, both argued for “freedom of speech'' and respect for “context.''

Such excuses are clearly immoral and untrue. In fact, Ivy League campuses routinely sanction and punish staff, faculty, and students deemed responsible for behavior deemed hurtful to protected minorities (with the obvious exception of white men and Jews). , or are fired.

However, while McGill was immediately forced to resign, Gay did not. Also notable was Mr. McGill's far more impressive and extensive administrative experience and more prestigious scholarship, which was not even suspected of plagiarism.

The fact that academia summarily fires a white woman while desperately trying to save the career of an underqualified and ethically questionable black woman is seen as a matter of racial preference rather than racial prejudice. It will be.

In fact, in order to save Gaye's job and protect her from plagiarism charges, both Harvard and Gaye herself were willing to say things that were completely ridiculous, if not patently false.

Harvard University has invented a new term, “redundant language,” to euphemize the reality of gay intellectual theft.

Even after Gaye resigned, Harvard pounced on her plagiarism, further downplaying it as a mere “blunder.”

Harvard University and its supporters were further perplexed, arguing that if the victims of Gaye's plagiarism did not object, why was her appropriation so important?

So, should we consider plagiarism not only a serious violation of the entire academic ethos, as well as suffering for the plagiarized party?

The university further aggravated its stance, suggesting that the complaint was less serious if it had been submitted by an anonymous academic.

Has Harvard University ever heard why whistleblowers are often protected from retaliation by the grant of anonymity?

Liberal Harvard University, through its lawyers, even threatened legal action if the New York Post published Gay's plagiarism accusations.

But just days later, the university was thrown into chaos by further evidence of Gaye's academic misconduct, including inappropriate use of data and further plagiarism extending to her doctoral dissertation.

Recall that Harvard University maintained that it conducted a thorough investigation and cleared her of any actionable plagiarism charges, despite more accusations of her previous culpability. .

But more importantly, what is happening now with the gay former president?

Does resigning as president of Harvard University and returning to full professorship mean that the plagiarism charge goes away?

What other Harvard professor remains employed without having to deal with more than 20 separate plagiarism charges?

Gays, Harvard University, and the more than 700 Harvard professors who wrote letters in support of gays and gays shut down the ranks say plagiarism is no longer a serious crime at the nation's most prestigious university. Are you claiming it now?

Will students who emulate Gaye's copy-pasting, ignoring footnotes, and data-misusing habits be exempt from expulsion or suspension in the future?

After Gay's embarrassing December 5th Congressional testimony and resignation, what does Harvard's anti-Semitism policy now look like?

If next week anti-Israel students again call for the destruction of Israel's Jews “all the way from the river to the sea,” or if they again storm Harvard University's Widener Library and show support for the October 7 massacre, What would the new Harvard University, or the old Harvard University, do to intimidate Jewish students?

Nothing again?

Finally, Harvard University implied that Gaye was fired due to racist outside pressure, even though many of his critics were major donors enraged by the damage to their alma mater's reputation.

Is Harvard suggesting that its big donors are racists?

So what happens next?

The resignation of Harvard's entire board of directors is the ultimate cause of Harvard's decline into mediocrity.

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow at the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of Basic Books' The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.You can contact him via email authorvdh@gmail.com.

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