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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (TND) — Former Harvard President Claudine Gay on Wednesday wrote an editorial in the New York Times defending her actions leading up to her decision to step down from the presidency and return to being a professor.
At just six month and two days, her tenure as president was the briefest in school history. Gay became ensnared in controversy over the past month, stemming back to congressional testimony during which she failed to unequivocally say calls for Jewish genocide violated Harvard conduct policies.
She was later accused of plagiarizing portions of her academic works, including her doctoral dissertation.
Gay began the piece by explaining the decision was in order to help Harvard heal during a time of intense scrutiny.
My hope is that by stepping down I will deny demagogues the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency in their campaign to undermine the ideals animating Harvard since its founding: excellence, openness, independence, truth,” Gay wrote.
She went on to attribute her noncommittal congressional testimony on campus-wide calls for Jewish genocide to “a well-laid trap.”
“Yes, I made mistakes,” she admitted. “And at a congressional hearing last month, I fell into a well-laid trap. I neglected to clearly articulate that calls for the genocide of Jewish people are abhorrent and unacceptable and that I would use every tool at my disposal to protect students from that kind of hate.”
Gay continued, claiming the numerous accusations that...
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