Letter: Claudine Gay is a Disgrace

She should be dismissed immediately from the Harvard faculty. She and her major professor should be banned from academia. A dissertation is a description of the procedures, analysis and conclusions of original research including references to other relevant research. It is a demonstration that the student can do original research and report on it with clarity. Her considerable plagiarism raises the question as to how much original research she did, if any. She has expressed no remorse about her theft of intellectual property, so presumably she will continue to teach and/or condone it. She is a disgrace and a threat to our profession. Even her resignation letter has grammatical errors.