Harvard alumni react to embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay facing more plagiarism allegations

Dr. Carol Swain says that Harvard University is destroying American education by defending President Claudine Gay.

Harvard University alumni reacted to the university's high governing body finding more instances of "duplicative language" in Harvard President Claudine Gay's work.

Harvard admitted it found more instances of "duplicative language" in Gay’s academic work on Wednesday, as the House also expanded its probe into the Ivy League school, demanding to know whether students and the university’s leader were held to the same standards on plagiarism. 

Jonathan Harounoff, a Harvard alumnus and journalist, told Fox News Digital: "Had I or any of my classmates at Cambridge, Harvard, or Columbia been found to have plagiarized, we would have been swiftly rebuked if not worse."

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Former President Barack Obama allegedly lobbied on behalf of Harvard President Claudine Gay.  (Photo by Costas Baltas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

"It’s devastating to see the leader of the country’s best university — an institution that’s meant to be a beacon of rigorous research, integrity and intellectual honesty — be held to a completely different standard to its students," Harounoff, the director of communications at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, added.

"Having said that, I am not surprised. Harvard decided to stand by President Gay amid her tepid, if not outrageous, congressional testimony about surging antisemitism on U.S. college campuses. So, Harvard will then also stand by her as her academic work is questioned over possible plagiarism."

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