Princeton University 'Reviewing' Plagiarism Allegations Against Woke Professor

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Boot the Democrat cheater.

Princeton University is "reviewing" the plagiarism allegations
against progressive history professor Kevin Kruse, the
university's student newspaper reported on Tuesday—over half a
year after they were first raised.

"We are carefully reviewing the concerns that have been shared
with the University, and will handle them in accordance with
University policy," Princeton University spokesman Michael
Hotchkiss told Daily Princetonian. Hotchkiss did not say whether
Princeton would open a full investigation into the allegations.

The review follows months of silence by the university, which
says it "overlooked" a December 6 email from the economic
historian Phil Magness about possible instances of plagiarism in
Kruse's academic work. Magness didn't receive a substantive
reply from the university until June 17, three days after he
published an article in Reason outlining the evidence that Kruse
repeatedly plagiarized other scholars' books.

"We take such allegations very seriously, and we will carefully
consider the concerns you have raised," Deputy Dean of the
Faculty Toni Turano told Magness in an email reviewed by the
Washington Free Beacon. "Please feel free to send us any
additional information to explain and support your allegations."

In public, Princeton has been much less solicitous. It has not
posted an official statement on any university website, nor did
it reply to Reason‘s or the Free Beacon‘s requests for comment
when the story first broke.

The hushed delays accentuate the contrast between Princeton's
treatment of Kruse and its treatment of Joshua Katz, the star
classics professor who criticized the school's racial politics.
University officials condemned Katz—and implied publicly they
were investigating him—days after he published his criticisms in
a July 2020 essay for Quillette. When they received "new
information" about a consensual relationship he'd had with a
student over a decade earlier, it took them less than a month to
launch a formal investigation, which resulted in his dismissal
in May.

The contrast between Katz and Kruse has raised eyebrows among
alumni and current students, who say it suggests a political
double standard at the Ivy League school.

"??Will Professor Kruse face Katz's fate—stripped of tenure and
fired?" Princeton senior Abigail Anthony asked in National
Review. "If so, Princeton students will learn a lesson in whom
not to copy from. If not, they will learn instead that the rules
don't apply to the people with power and the ‘correct' opinions."

Kruse has made a name for himself by accusing
conservatives—especially Christian conservatives—of distorting
history, prompting the Chronicle of Higher Education to dub him
"history's attack dog." Those attacks became less frequent after
the plagiarism allegations came to light: Kruse, who would
regularly post Twitter threads attacking Republicans, has not
been active on the platform since June 14.

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plagiarism-allegations-against-woke-professor/

[Expel the inquisitors - DONE!]

Expel the little bitches.

Students and professors at Harvard Law School are demanding the
university punish a 77-year-old anthropology professor over
allegations of sexual misconduct that Harvard’s own Title IX
office has dismissed, according to a July 26 petition from
Harvard’s Graduate Student Union.

The petition demands that the law school cancel a class taught
by John Comaroff, a renowned anthropologist who has spent the
past two years battling allegations that he sexually harassed
three graduate students. Harvard’s Office of Dispute Resolution
concluded that most of those allegations—including an allegation
of sexual assault—were without merit. It found only a minor
violation of Title IX, an off-color comment by Comaroff that
investigators conceded had "no romantic or sexual intention,"
according to Comaroff’s lawyers.

The petition nonetheless accuses Comaroff of sexual "violence"
and argues that his presence in the classroom would pose "a
serious risk of continued harm." Its signatories include Harvard
Law professor Nikolas Bowie, who sits on the board of the
American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts, as well as a
dozen law students who’ve worked for public defenders.

"It is shocking that an employee union is calling for a Harvard
employee to be summarily punished and cast out of the University
community based upon allegations that the University’s process
found him not responsible for or that have never been
investigated," one of Comaroff’s lawyers, Ruth O'Meara-Costello,
said in a statement on Friday. "And it is shocking that
signatories to the union’s petition, including law students and
a law professor, would join in this demand to substitute mob
justice for due process."

Both ironies reflect a broader identity crisis within legal
nonprofits and labor unions, which have begun to take positions
at odds with their core missions. The American Civil Liberties
Union, for example, has challenged efforts to strengthen due
process protections in campus Title IX proceedings. And from the
New York Times to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, unions at
liberal institutions have welcomed the termination of employees
who run afoul of progressive shibboleths, as activist organizers
replace the old guard.

Harvard’s Graduate Student Union is a microcosm of that process.
The three women who accused Comaroff of harassment—Lilia
Kilburn, Amulya Mandava, and Margaret Czerwienski—are all active
in the union, which has for years lobbied Harvard to take a
tougher stand on sexual misconduct. In February, Mandava and
Czerwienski were elected as the union’s vice president and
sergeant-at-arms, respectively, amid a well-publicized battle
with the university over its handling of the Comaroff case.

At least 12 of the law students who’ve joined their cause have
worked with groups that promote due process rights for the
accused, according to the students’ LinkedIn profiles and
personal websites. The petition’s signatories include
Christopher Dietz, a former paralegal for the Innocence Project;
Dane Underwood, a former law clerk for the Los Angeles Legal Aid
Society; Alex Brown, who has clerked for public defenders in
four different states; and Sarah Blatt-Herold, who has worked
with the Brooklyn Defender Services as well as the "prison
abolitionist" group Black and Pink.

Reached for comment, Underwood defended his decision to sign the
petition.

"I see no tension between my work in legal services—which
supports people caught in systems over which they have little
power—and my opposition to the class taught by John Comaroff—a
tenured professor at a $53 billion university, who used his
position of power to sexually harass students," Underwood said.
Bowie and the other students did not respond to requests for
comment.

The Comaroff controversy began in May 2020 when Kilburn,
Mandava, and Czerwienski lodged a Title IX complaint against the
77-year-old anthropologist. The complaint contained a litany of
lurid allegations: that Comaroff had kissed and touched Kilburn
without her consent; that he’d fantasized aloud about her being
raped; and that he retaliated against Mandava and Czerwienski
for attempting to bring his conduct to light.

Harvard investigators determined that Comaroff never touched
Kilburn inappropriately, but had warned her against traveling to
Cameroon with her same-sex partner—because, he said, gay people
in the country are often targeted for "corrective rape," a
practice that has been documented extensively by human rights
groups and the U.S. government.

The school also found that Comaroff, who grew up in South Africa
and studies African society, violated Title IX by conveying that
warning in an inappropriate tone, and that some of his comments
to Mandava violated the school’s guidelines for "professional
conduct." It did not find that he retaliated against any of the
women. Harvard placed Comaroff on leave in January for the
Spring 2022 semester and barred him from teaching required
courses for at least a year.

But those sanctions didn’t satisfy Comaroff’s accusers, who in
February filed a lawsuit alleging that Harvard had "ignored"
their harassment. They also made new accusations against him on
the basis of "information and belief"—legalese for second-hand
information that the plaintiff can’t verify.

The new accusations have "have not been proved or even
investigated," O'Meara-Costello’s statement said, "and their
credibility is extremely doubtful." That didn’t stop the
petition from treating them as fact, asserting that "the public
evidence in Comaroff’s case warrants further steps toward harm
reduction."

The first step, the signatories say, is "an open acknowledgment"
that Comaroff’s "multiple acts of sex-based discrimination" went
"unchecked for years." They also call on Harvard to "de-list"
Comaroff’s Fall elective, "the Anthropology of Law," and hint
that he should have his tenure revoked.

"Tenure exists to protect the academic freedom of scholars to
cultivate a rich and vibrant academic community," the petition
reads, "not to protect the freedom of tenured individuals to
erode the very conditions of mutual respect and safety required
for such a community to exist."

The signatories demand that Harvard make public its policies on
revoking tenure, a punishment they say may be necessary to "stop
discrimination."

Comaroff’s lawyers say the petition bodes ill for the university.

"Everyone who works, studies, and teaches at Harvard, including
the signatories to this petition," O'Meara-Costello’s statement
said, "should be gravely concerned by the idea that untested
accusations should lead, without investigation, to serious
adverse actions like those demanded in this petition."

Published under: Campus, Feature, Harvard, Sexual Misconduct

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exonerated-students-and-professors-are-still-demanding-the-
school-cancel-his-classes/