Dr. Carol Swain: Claudine Gay Plagiarized My Work in Her Dissertation

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SWAIN: "Well, first of all, she plagiarized my work in her dissertation. And when I earned my doctorate the --  the standards at that time was that you had to have an original idea in your dissertation, original research. You had to defend it successfully before a committee and then you were awarded a doctorate. She had multiple instances of plagiarism in her dissertation. I've raised the question, is she really a doctor?”