Dr. Carol Swain
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48 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I think what we need to do is somehow bring back a sense of integrity, moral ethics to the whole enterprise of academia, because right now it's in a sad state. And for people whose kids, you know, get into the Ivy League, they want to brag about it. Those are not bragging points anymore.
Your child is better off probably going to a state university where they adhere to traditional approaches to education than they are at an Ivy League school where they think they are morally superior to everyone else and they turn a blind eye to violations of traditional norms.
Well, I'd like to speak to Harvard alumni and people who care about the Ivy League, because whether we like it or not, and I hope this changes, most of our Supreme Court justices and newspaper editors, people in powerful positions are educated at Ivy League institutions. I would like to see Ivy League institutions make a commitment to high standards.
And one of the things that they all need to do, and not just the Ivy League, I would recommend every college or university that's been in existence for more than 100 years read the founding documents, the mission statements, the visions of the people who decided that they wanted to create that particular institution, because they have lost all sense of where they came from, any sense of purpose.
They are adrift, and they're part of the problem. Instead of lifting up nations, they're helping destroy nations. And I know what I'm saying is strong, but I do believe this. And I would like to see Harvard University make a commitment to high standards, Make a commitment to Veritas, its motto. Go back to seeking truth.
No, and I can tell you that as far as I'm concerned with Harvard, they added insult to injury because they totally ignored me. And Claudia and Gay did go back and make some corrections of other people's work that was plagiarized. In the book, I mentioned that there were 47 instances of plagiarism that were identified by researchers. And she only corrected a handful of those.
Nothing regarding my work was corrected, but I've said in the book that if she had picked up the phone and called me and apologized, that I would have accepted her apology. And I see Claudine Gay as a victim of a system that pushes racial and ethnic minorities really hard, far beyond where some of them should go. But the issue of plagiarism is not confined to racial and ethnic minorities.
It's something that elites do. Joe Biden did it. Teddy Kennedy. I mean, we can go down the list of people that cheat. It's all about cheating. And we need to live in a society where that's frowned upon rather than excused away.
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