The Harvard kids are all right: Claudine Gay’s plagiarism means she must go

Embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay is facing a new onslaught: Now the kids are coming for her.

A student member of Harvard’s Honor Council — the school body tasked with reviewing and sanctioning plagiarism and other cheating — blasted Gay and demanded her resignation.

“Gay’s getting off easy,” the student thundered in a letter to the Crimson. 

After all, even first-time plagiarism offenses can wreck students’ lives via academic probation, the loss of “good standing” and the inability to graduate. 

Gay’s been nailed for “routine and pervasive” plagiarism, per the letter, with 40 instances in her 11 published works and her dissertation, incidents stretching over her entire career (including plagiarizing an acknowledgements section). 

All she’s had to do was issue corrections to the papers containing the plagiarized material — something students can’t do to get off the hook.