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With even more allegations, critics wonder how Harvard boss STILL has a job

A new dossier accuses Harvard president Claudine Gay of 40 instances of plagiarism. One of the academics she copied, political scientist Dr. Carol Swain, said the university should “stop appeasing the Marxist mob” and fire her.

Carol Swain, the prominent political science professor who accused Harvard University President Claudine Gay of plagiarizing her work, is calling on the school to fire her and said she is “weighing” legal action.

Swain, formerly of Vanderbilt University, claims Gay used sections of a book she published in 1993 and an article from 1997 without crediting her.

She blasted the university Thursday, demanding that the school “Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” in part of an X post offering “some free unsolicited advice for Harvard University.”

“She can be relieved of duties until the terms are negotiated,” she wrote. “Hire the best man or woman who can steer the university back towards sanity.”

‘Weighing options’

Swain (right) also told the Ivy League college it needs to stop “appeasing the Marxist identity politics mob,” saying it “should not be a consideration” in their decision-making processes.

The academic also called on Harvard to “apologize to alumni, students, parents and donors who have been harmed and embarrassed.”

“Have a sit-down conversation with the people who have been harmed by the plagiarism of Gay and the system that protects her,” Swain said.

The ex-professor replied to one user that she is “weighing my options” regarding legal action against Gay.

Plagiarism allegations against Gay first surfaced earlier this month, with accusations that she lifted other scholars’ works in her 1997 doctoral thesis and that four papers published between 1993 and 2017 did not include proper attribution.

In a Wall Street Journal essay this week, Swain wrote that Gay copied sections of her 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress,” as well as an article published in 1997 titled, “Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996.”

She was not even aware of the alleged plagiarism until she received a phone call from a friend, Swain told The Daily Caller Wednesday.

“I didn’t realize how closely her work paralleled my work. And initially, I did not want to rush to judgment,” she said.

But she stopped giving Gay the benefit of the doubt after reading more into her plagiarism controversies.

“I was sad on Monday when I realized that [Gay] had plagiarized,” she told the outlet. “But I was sad for myself because I felt like she cheated me out of citations, and in academia, citations matter.”

Gay remains president of the college, and an investigation by the university cleared her of research misconduct.

Although she will update attribution in three instances, the university said Thursday it is standing by her, reports the Journal. The Harvard Corporation previously said officials became aware of plagiarism claims in October and an independent review found no misconduct.

The plagiarism allegations have attracted the attention of Congress, with the House Committee on Education and the Workforce expanding an already existing investigation into antisemitism on the college campus to include the accusations of plagiarism, according to the Harvard Crimson.

Campus hate speech

Gay was already under fire over her handling of antisemitic behavior on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, and her responses at a separate congressional hearing about them where she refused to condemn Harvard students calling for the genocide of Jews.

“We embrace a commitment to free expression — even views that are objectionable, offensive [and] hateful,” Gay testified. “It’s when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying and harassment. That speech did not cross that barrier.”

In the ensuing firestorm, a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced a resolution calling for Gay to resign from her position, but the college stood by her.

Anti-Israel demonstrations at Harvard have included a man in a Palestinian keffiyeh calling Jews “Nazis” and “pigs” and students repeatedly waving banners calling Israel an “apartheid state.”

Harvard is being investigated over its handling of antisemitism by the US Department of Education under Title VI, a law that bans discrimination based on race, religion or national origin in an institution that receives federal funding.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce also on Wednesday announced an inquiry into how the school handled the allegations of plagiarism against Gay.