#Sherri Ann Charleston

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By: Aaron Sibarium

Published: Jan 30, 2024

It's not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston's thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.

Through that sleight of hand, Sherri Ann Charleston effectively took credit for her husband's work. The 2014 paper, which was also coauthored with Jerlando Jackson, now the dean of Michigan State University's College of Education, and appeared in the Journal of Negro Education, has the same methods, findings, and description of survey subjects as the 2012 study, which involved interviews with black computer science students and was first published by the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

The two papers even report identical interview responses from those students. The overlap suggests that the authors did not conduct new interviews for the 2014 study but instead relied on LaVar Charleston's interviews from 2012—a severe breach of research ethics, according to experts who reviewed the allegations.

"The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University, where he ran several academic integrity probes. "This is research fraud pure and simple."

Sherri Ann Charleston was the chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before she joined Harvard in August 2020 as its first-ever chief diversity officer. In that capacity, Charleston served on the staff advisory committee that helped guide the university's presidential search process that resulted in the selection of former Harvard president Claudine Gay in December 2022, according to the Harvard Crimson.

A historian and attorney by training, Charleston has taught courses on gender studies at the University of Wisconsin, according to her Harvard bio, which describes her as "one of the nation's leading experts in diversity." The site says that her work involves "translating diversity and inclusion research into practice for students, staff, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and faculty of color."

Experts who reviewed the allegations against Charleston said that they ranged from minor plagiarism to possible data fraud and warrant an investigation. Some also argued that Charleston had committed a more serious scholarly sin than Gay, Harvard's former president, who resigned in January after she was accused of lifting long passages from other authors without proper attribution.

Papers that omit a few citations or quotation marks rarely receive more than a correction, experts said. But when scholars recycle large chunks of a previous study—especially its data or conclusions—without attribution, the duplicate paper is often retracted and can even violate copyright law.

That offense, known as duplicate publication, is typically a form of self-plagiarism in which authors republish old work in a bid to pad their résumés. Here, though, the duplicate paper added two new authors, Sherri Ann Charleston and Jerlando Jackson, who had no involvement in the original, letting them claim credit for the research and making them party to the con.

"Sherri Charleston appears to have used somebody else's research without proper attribution," said Steve McGuire, a former political theory professor at Villanova University, who reviewed both the 2012 and 2014 papers.

One-fifth of the 2014 paper, including two-thirds of its "findings" section, was published in the 2012 study, according to the complaint, and three interview responses are identical in both articles, suggesting they come from the same survey.

According to Lee Jussim, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, "it is essentially impossible for two different people in two different studies to produce the same quote." At best, he said, the authors got their wires crossed and mixed up interviews from two separate surveys, both of which just happened to involve 37 participants with the exact same demographic profile. At worst, the authors committed data fraud by framing old survey responses as new ones—a separate and more serious offense.

The Journal of Negro Education did not respond to a request for comment. Sherri Ann Charleston, LaVar Charleston, and Jerlando Jackson did not respond to requests for comment.

Monday's complaint, which was filed anonymously, comes as Harvard is facing questions about the integrity of its research affiliates and the ideology of its diversity bureaucrats, most of whom report to the sprawling office that Sherri Ann Charleston oversees.

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of Harvard Medical School's three teaching hospitals, announced in January that it would retract six papers and correct dozens more after some of its top executives were accused of data manipulation. That news came on the heels of a viral essay in which Carole Hooven, a Harvard biologist, described how she had been hounded out of a teaching role by her department's diversity committee after she said in an interview that there are only two sexes.

The school is also facing an ongoing congressional probe over its handling of anti-Semitism and its response to the plagiarism allegations against Gay, which Harvard initially sought to suppress with legal saber-rattling. Half of Gay's published work contained plagiarized material, ranging from single sentences to entire paragraphs, with some of the most severe lifts coming in her dissertation. Though Gay stepped down as president on January 2, she remains a tenured faculty member drawing a $900,000 annual salary.

Some of Charleston's offenses are similar to Gay's. In her 2009 dissertation, for example, Charleston borrows a sentence from Eric Arnesen's 1991 book Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923, without quotation marks and without citing Arnesen's work in a footnote.

She also lifts full paragraphs from her thesis adviser, Rebecca Scott, while making minimal semantic tweaks.

"There's simply not enough difference to consider them original words," said Jonathan Bailey, the founder of the website Plagiarism Today. "Though the sources in those examples are cited"—Charleston includes a footnote to Scott at the end of each passage—"the text either needed to be quoted or properly paraphrased."

Bailey added that the plagiarism of Scott alone merited an investigation—ideally, he said, "by a neutral party with no ties to either the school or the school's critics."

Harvard did not respond to a request for comment. Scott and Arnesen did not respond to requests for comment.

Charleston also lifted language from Louis Pérez, an historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Alejandro de la Fuente, an historian at Harvard; and Ada Ferrer, an historian at New York University, among other scholars.

Charleston cites each source in a footnote but omits quotation marks around language copied verbatim. The omissions violate Harvard's Guide to Using Sources, a document produced for incoming students, which states that quotation marks are required when "you copy language word for word."

Pérez, de la Fuente, and Ferrer did not respond to requests for comment.

The range of examples presented in the complaint, which was also filed to the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlights how plagiarism can shade into more severe forms of misconduct when it involves interviews or other data.

In fact, some experts said the term "plagiarism" didn't quite capture the dishonesty of duplicate publication, which is sometimes categorized as a separate offense and accounts for 14 percent of all paper retractions in the life sciences.

"You cannot just republish an old paper as if it is a new paper," Jussim, the Rutgers psychologist, said. "If you do, that is not exactly plagiarism; it's more like fraud."

Wood said the case was really a combination of the two offenses. "Because the second paper, on which Sherri Ann Charleston is one of the three co-authors, recycles so much of the text of the original paper by LaVar J. Charleston, this does have the earmarks of plagiarism, but the plagiarism is compounded by an even larger effort to deceive," he said. "The universities and journals need to investigate."

While scholars can reuse data across multiple papers, they must make clear when they are doing so and provide appropriate attribution to earlier studies, per guidelines from the Office of Research Integrity and the editorial policies of top academic journals, including Nature and Cell.

But the 2014 paper never indicates that it is reusing research from 2012. Instead, it claims to present new data that fill a "gap" in the literature and "corroborate" the 2012 study, among others, and on two occasions refers to survey subjects as "participants in this study."

Those participants appear to be the same people whom LaVar Charleston interviewed in 2012. Both surveys involved the same number of undergraduates, graduate students, Ph.D.s, and students at historically black colleges—all drawn from the same computer science conference—a similarity that experts said was a red flag.

"It is curious that the proportions are identical," said Debora Weber-Wulff, a German computer scientist who researches plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. "This would be grounds for the universities in question to request the data and investigate."

Jussim agreed. "This seems sufficiently improbable that, absent something saying they are re-reporting an already-published study, it would be fraud," he said.

LaVar Charleston did not respond to a request for comment about whether the two studies used the same interviews. The University of Michigan said it was "committed to fostering and upholding the highest ethical standards in research and scholarship," but declined to comment on the complaint. The University of Wisconsin-Madison told the Free Beacon it had "initiated an assessment in response to the allegations."

The main difference between the papers is a long section in the 2014 article about "culturally responsive pedagogy theory," which the authors say their findings support. Both articles are littered with the tropes of progressive scholarship, including a disclaimer about "positionality"—the authors assure readers that they reflected on their own "racial, gender, and socioeconomic status"—and a lament that computer science is a "White male-dominated field."

Both also criticize the idea that "computing sciences is for nerds, only for White people, [and] only for geniuses."

Such language is typical of the diversity initiatives Charleston oversees. Since 2020, her office has pumped out a stream of materials that bemoan the "weaponization of whiteness," discuss the ins and outs of "white fragility," and urge students to "call out" their peers for "harmful words." One message, signed by Charleston herself, was titled "A Call to Dismantle Intersecting Oppressions."

"We must continue to work against systematic oppression in all its forms—racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and more," she wrote.

Her office also curates resources for students seeking to become fluent in progressive patois, including a "glossary of diversity, inclusion and belonging (DIB) terms" that provides examples of "gaslighting."

Tactics can include "shooting down the target's ideas," the entry reads—or "taking credit for them."

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Here we go again...

If you haven't already figured it out, the DEI-related faux-"disciplines" - the "Studies": Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Media Studies, etc - are the most corrupt, the most ideological with the absolute lowest academic standards of all. All they care about is echoing back the "correct" opinions, not valid scholarship.

And yet, somehow these lunatics and fanatics end up the most powerful people in the asylum.

Harvard needs to fumigate the house, top to bottom.

[beardedmrbean]

Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer has become the latest member of staff to be accused of plagiarism, including a failure to properly cite her own husband’s study.

An anonymous complaint has listed at least 40 examples of alleged plagiarism by Sherri Ann Charleston dating from 2009, a decade before she joined Harvard, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The allegations, which include failing to properly cite other academics’ work and lifting portions of text without quotation marks, come just weeks after Claudine Gay, Harvard University’s former president, resigned in the wake of a plagiarism scandal.

According to the Beacon, Dr Charleston, who is a historian, submitted a 2009 dissertation to the University of Michigan which included quotes or paraphrases from nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution.

The complaint also alleges Dr Charleston ultimately took credit for a study that her husband, LaVar Charleston, wrote in 2012. He is now the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion.

That alleged act of plagiarism involved Dr Charleston recycling large portions of her husband’s earlier paper in a peer-reviewed article that she co-wrote in 2014, according to the complaint.

The article, published in the Journal of Negro Education, reportedly had the same findings, method and survey subject descriptions from her husband’s original work.

“The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit,” Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University, told the Beacon. “This is research fraud pure and simple.”

Steve McGuire, a former political theory professor at Villanova University, reviewed both the 2012 and 2014 papers.

“Sherri Charleston appears to have used somebody else’s research without proper attribution,” he told the Beacon.

The full complaint has been reportedly filed with Harvard, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Neither Dr Charleston nor her husband have commented on the allegations.

Dr Charleston was the chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before switching to Harvard in August 2020, becoming its first chief diversity officer.

According to the Harvard Crimson, she was involved in the university’s presidential search process that resulted in the selection of Dr Gay in December 2022.

Dr Gay resigned on Jan 2 after facing allegations of plagiarism as well as criticism for her comments about anti-Semitism on campus.

Harvard’s board investigated the plagiarism complaints against the president in December and found “a few instances of inadequate citation” but “no violation of Harvard’s standard for research misconduct”.

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Jan312024

Now Harvard DEI Chief Accused of Plagiarism

In case anyone thought plagiarist, former Harvard President, and ludicrous moonbat Claudine Gay was an exception to the rule, it appears Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer is also a plagiarist:

Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston’s thin publication record.

You can’t expect better than Claudine Gay with Affirmative Action hires in charge of hiring:

Charleston was the chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before she joined Harvard in August 2020 as its first-ever chief diversity officer. In that capacity, Charleston served on the staff advisory committee that helped guide the university’s presidential search process that resulted in the selection of former Harvard president Claudine Gay in December 2022, according to the Harvard Crimson.

Head of the National Association of Scholars Peter Wood characterizes Charleston’s scholarship as “research fraud pure and simple.” But you can’t say she hasn’t been doing her job, which is to institutionalize hatred of whites:

Since 2020, her office has pumped out a stream of materials that bemoan the “weaponization of whiteness,” discuss the ins and outs of “white fragility,” and urge students to “call out” their peers for “harmful words.”

“Harmful words” can be presumed to mean speech that does not comply with leftist doctrine grounded in DEI and Critical Race Theory.

Harvard’s commitment to this toxic dogma at the expense of integrity and competence is producing consequences:

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of Harvard Medical School’s three teaching hospitals, announced in January that it would retract six papers and correct dozens more after some of its top executives were accused of data manipulation. That news came on the heels of a viral essay in which Carole Hooven, a Harvard biologist, described how she had been hounded out of a teaching role by her department’s diversity committee after she said in an interview that there are only two sexes.

Serious medical research cannot be conducted where facts are forbidden in the name of politics.

The school is also facing an ongoing congressional probe over its handling of anti-Semitism and its response to the plagiarism allegations against Gay, which Harvard initially sought to suppress with legal saber-rattling.

Harvard has an endowment of $51 billion, but its most valuable asset has been its reputation for excellence. This reputation has been exchanged for laughing stock status in the name of moonbattery.

On tips from Ed McAninch, Steve D, and Mr. Freemarket.

At 60 years old I decided to get a degree. I never finished high school and getting a formal education was always on my bucket list. After helping all four of my kids get their BAs it seemed only fair that I get one of my own.

I was surprised to find that African Americans had their own separate degree plan within the UT university structure. They had separate study areas, separate dining rooms, separate fraternal organizations and degree requirements custom made to insure they passed all their core requirements with a 3.7 average. there was a list of professors guaranteed to pass them with a 3.7 average for doing virtually no written course work. All they had to do was show up for 50 percent of the lecture. If you check "Rate My Professor" on the internet you will see that there are buzz words used to let a potential student know how little would get them a passing grade.

In the case of these professors simply ask yourself how they would have been treated had they been white or Asian? They would have been relieved of their duties and sent packing. No doubt about it. There were of course exceptions but the system was designed to grease the skids for minority students.

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Classic ED - 2005 Debuts & Departures

Classic ED begins airing the 2006 episodes (303 episodes produced) during week 37 (Sep-2024) barring preemptions. Below are KEY character arrivals/departures via ED Wikis.

Arrivals:

04-Jan - Terence Turner returns recast (Nick Brimble)

12-Jan - Samson Dingle born (Bradley Milnes)

03-Feb - Aaron Livesy returns (Danny Webb)

16-Feb - Jamie Hope (Alex Carter)

27-Feb - Katie Sugden returns (Sammy Winward)

03-Mar - Grayson Sinclair (Christopher Villiers)

03-Mar - Perdita Hyde-Sinclair (Georgia Slowe)

23-Mar - Rosemary King (Linda Thorson)

13-Jul - Eli Dingle (Joseph Gilgun)

24-Aug - Latisha Daggert returns (Danielle Henry)

12-Oct - Vic Sudgen returns recast (Isobel Hogdins)

15-Oct - Emily Kirk returns (Kate McGregor)

18-Oct - Ethan Blakee returns (Liam O’Brian)

03-Nov - Lily Butterfield (Anne Charleston)

03-Nov - Eve (Birch) Jenson returns (Raine Davison)

16-Nov - Billy Hopwood (David Crellin) single appearance then regular in 2007

26-Nov - David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden)

26-Dec - Grace Barraclough (Glynis Barber)

Departures:

09-Feb - Aaron Livesy (Denny Webb) returned recast 10-Nov-2008

12-Mar - Nicola Blackstock (Nicola Wheeler) returned 12-Sep-2007

13-Apr - Terence Turner (Nick Brimble) death

12-May - Lesley Meredith (Sherrie Hewson)

14-Jul - Dawn Woods (Julia Mallam) death

25-Jul - Victoria Sugden (Hannah Midgley) returned recast 12-Oct-2006

31-Jul - Alice Dingle (Ursula Holden-Gill) suicide-assisted death

02-Aug - Ivan Jones (Daniel Brocklebank) and Simon Meredith (Dale Meeks)

14-Aug - Martin Crowe (Graeme Hawley)

27-Aug - Latish Daggert (Danielle Henry)

30-Aug - Danny Daggert (Cleveland Campbell) returned 25-May-2007 for 4 episodes

21-Sep - Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) returned 28-Apr-2009 and Sadie King (Patsy Kensit)

20-Oct - Ethan Blake (Liam O’Brien)

10-Nov - Adam Forsythe (Richard Shelton) suicide

15-Dec - Jean Hope (Susan Penhaligon)

25-Dec - Tom King (Ken Farrington) death

Previous arrivals and departures by year:

1999 - 2005 (cumulative)

[ramon-balaguer]

In this computer, Internet and AI age, many Woke Leftist Liberal Donkeys have become PhDs, Professors, Presidents, etc… by Plagiarizing Demselves into political positions and positions of power and popularity but in reality, they’re just Dummies in 3 or 4 bars Robes, Blind leading blind, Idiots dressed as smarty pants and they can’t hardly read, much less write or speak anything anyone else has said or wrote‼️🤷‍♂️🙏🇺🇸#REBTD😇 How do I know you ask, because the proof is in the pudding, the truth is evident in their handwritten or typed emails, chats, memos, messages, notes, and text or voice messages… 👀 They can’t spell and don’t understand grammar but published books. 😱 They’re the leading Experts but can’t lead their own lives, much less their children’s or yours…🥸 Wolves 🐺 in Sheep’s 🐑 clothing or just stupid Clowns 🤡 Dumber than a 5th grader❗️😂😅🤣🤣🤣 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/2826877/harvard-chief-diversity-officer-sherri-ann-charleston-accused-plagiarism/

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TIM General Violence

Father, now a woman, gets 18-months for sexually assaulting daughter

Transgender female Twitter engineer charged with raping her estranged wife

Transgender Serial Child Rapist Arrested Again for Nude Images of Child: Nicola (née Ross) Florida

Trans-Identified Man Passes as Female Nanny to Rape, Kidnap Children: Synthia (née Dennis L.) Koopman | Women Are Human

Man Hides Past as Child Rapist by Becoming Transgender, Changing Name: Allison (née Dennis) Woolbert | Women Are Human

Male Transgender Impeached for Sexual Assault Allegations: Heather Dunn

Trans-identified Man Rapes Girl at Party: Dean Sawley

Trans-Identified Man Charged with Kidnapping, Raping Man: Jeffrey “Ciara” McEleveen

Trans-Identified Man Arrested for Molesting Adolescent Girl with Sex Toy: Tanner (a.k.a. Evelyn) Young

Vicious Child Rapist / Murderer Demands Sex Change & Freedom: Synthia China Blast

Three Men - Including Transgender - Sexually Enslave, Torture 14-Year-Old Girl

Trans-Identified Man Convicted in Gang Rape of Teen Girl: Lisa (née Louis) Massei

Two Male Transgenders Kidnap and Rape Underage Boy: Javoris “Aceiyana” Phillips

Police: Lowell Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted 15-Year-Old Girl

Male Trans Activist who Identifies as Transgender Raped Woman to Impregnate Her with ‘Non-Binary’ Babies: Cherno Biko | Women Are Human

Trans Rights Activist Who Advocated Mixed-Sex Restrooms is a Serial Child Rapist: Chad Sevearance-Turner | Women Are Human

Popular trans activist Eli Erlick is a rapist

Trans Activist Jessica Yaniv wants to help 10 yr old girls put their tampons in

Man, Dressed as Woman, Charged With Sexually Assaulting of Boy

Convicted sex offender seeks access to women’s locker rooms through bathroom law

Man accused of posing as woman in sexual batteries found mentally unfit to stand trial      

Crossdresser given shops ban over Perth grope rap  

Crossdressing Suspect Arrested For Raping Woman

Convicted sex offender sues over sex change operation       

Joseph Patrick Bueche – Hit store clerk over the head with bottle for misgendering

Charles Norwood – Battery

Jarvis June “Lady Jae” Clark – Murder  

Maikobi Burks – Murdered mother, father, and sister

Emmagene Kaytlyn Cronin/Shawn Cronin writer for The TransAdvocate, battery, harasses women online

Chay’Im Ben­Sholom, claims to be transgender, murdered a woman

Richard Speck – Mass murder/rape of women

Veronica Bolina/Charleston Alves Francisco brutally beat elderly woman after invading her home

Derek Sinden, who identifies as a woman, assaulted/killed elderly woman after invading her home

Mark van N. – Dentist who killed his wife and mutilated the teeth of some 100 patients

Matthew “Maddie” Smith, murder

Dr. Richard Sharpe – Killed wife during divorce

Transgender woman arrested in Idaho bomb plot

Michael Adams – Shot and killed girlfriend

Psychotherapist Rita Powers murdered by her patient, a transwoman, because Powers didn’t think he was an appropriate candidate for sex reassignment surgery Note, in the link, that the transgender community blamed Powers for being murdered, saying that if she had just given her patient what he wanted, she would still be alive. In other words, ‘she asked for it.’ Sound familiar?

Transgender Activist Ordered To Stand Trial For Oakland Triple Murder

Cheryl Partsch punched in teeth for questioning cross-dressing man in women’s restroom. His punch cost her $60K in medical bills. Note that Patrick doesn’t identify as a woman, but still punched Cheryl in the teeth for being concerned about his presence in the women’srestroom, and called her questioning a “hate crime.”

Transactivist punches Mia Mac in face and neck, and breaks her camera, at Speakers Corner in London. Action for Trans Health London defended and excused the actions of the transactivist assailant. [See video further down the Masterpost ↓↓↓]  More info and screenshots can be found here.

A lesbian was jumped by a gang of transactivists outside of a gay bar. Her assailants then proceeded to brag about it on Twitter.

Feminists assaulted in Transgender Attack at Portland conference for Social Change

UK trans athlete Lauren Jeska, attempts to murder an official and attacks two other officials from British Athletics for reviewing the medals won while competing as a woman.  Lauren Jeska is male.

A minor female was assaulted by a transgender named Dakota Kern, apparently because she called him “dude.

Winthrop teen pleads guilty to murdering parents on Halloween morning 2016

Pasco: Cross-dressing man sentenced for battery

Disturbing Details in Shooter’s Social Media

Serial killer Donna Perry sentenced to life without parole | The Spokesman-Review

Trans-identified Man Kills Uncle to Fund “Gender” Surgery: Vonlee Nicole Titlow

Transgender Goes on Ax Rampage After Rejection, High on Transitioning Drugs, Alcohol & Cannabis: Karl “Evie” Amati

Trans-Identified Man Kills Girlfriend Because She Was Leaving Him: Michael Adams

Trans-Identified Man Poses as Woman to Lure, Blackmail, and Kill Man: Alhan Khan

Transgender female Twitter engineer, 32, is charged with raping her estranged wife the day after serving her with divorce papers

Trans activist Eli Erlick is a confirmed rapist

Male Trans Activist who Identifies as Transgender Raped Woman to Impregnate Her with ‘Non-Binary’ Babies: Cherno Biko

Trans-Identified Man Beats Up Firefighters Who Put Out Fire on His Property: Kate Lynn Blatt

Transgender and Prominent Trans Rights Activist Slaughters Long-time Friend: Gigi Thomas

Trans Rights Activist Who Advocated Mixed-Sex Restrooms is a Serial Child Rapist:

Robert Durst – Murdered wife, traded in real estate for high heels and lipstick, used transgender identity to stay hidden

Man dressed as woman robs Target with semi-automatic handgun

Arrest warrant issued for Transwoman in Montreal “sex change” clinic Arson

“Woman” killed neighbor before shooting self

Subway slasher caught blowing kisses on camera while vowing to ‘cut’ victims

Police: Stamford Resident Hit Woman In Face With Bottle After Gender Insult

Daryl Rasmussen – Murdered gay couple

Philip Walker Rosati, who identifies as a transgender woman, murdered wife

Kentucky Fairness Campaign’s Anthony G. Casebeer threatens lesbian feminists

John “Johnny” Jacobson Jr/Skylar Deleon – Armed burglary and murder

Mrs. Doubtfire’s arsonist arrested

Armed trans woman arrested after 10-hour D.C. standoff

Greg Ward AKA Karisma Garcia is a Transgender Women currently incarcerated for robbing a person with cerebral palsy at knifepoint

Trans women charged with assault in Casa Ruby incident

Richard Chaperon/Synthia Kavanagh – Murder & threats of violence

Transgender woman savage beating/murder of partner

Lamar McQueen – First degree murder

Thomas Cross/Teresa Cross – Aggravated assault

Craig Hudson – Tortured/killed wife, fights to wear wig in prison

William Gray – Killed two women

Thomas Lamb – Kidnapping, rape and murder

Nouchie Vellon – first degree rape

Austin Christopher Wikels – Handcuffed woman to bed & forced her to perform a sexual act another woman, & sadomasochistic assault

Drunk ladyboy attempts to rape 72-year-old woman

Man Claims Rape Was Result of Gender Identity Crisis – raped unconscious woman

Transgender woman accused of giving fake breast exams

Gareth Mcpherson – transsexual, raped woman in vicious attack

Transgender male threatened to arrange for a “football team” to gang-rape a man if he didn’t submit to a homosexual encounter

Transvestite taxi driver faces a prison term after he was convicted of raping a drunken woman in the back of his car

Keith “Rebecca” Elmore – attempted rape of woman, admitted to having cannibalistic fantasies of killing and eating women

Vance Egglestone – brutal rape of woman

Richard “Sherri” Masbruch – serial torture-rapist who tied women up, tortured, and raped them. Raped female inmates after prison transfer

David John Harris – sexually assaulted women while wearing women’s clothing

Clare Lawton – rape of woman, inflicting grievous bodily harm, burglary and unlawful wounding.

Peter Steel – rape of woman, inflicting grievous bodily harm, burglary, unlawful wounding, damaging property:

Renell Thorpe – Broke into a woman’s home, raped her, and tried to flee while wearing her clothes:  

Cross-dresser branded ‘high risk’ to women, sexually assaulted while wearing skirt, attempted rape of woman in bathroom:        

Gregory Philip Schwartz – attempted sexually assault of woman while wearing Barbie doll dress inside a Big Lots bathroom:

“Terf Tracker” Allison Woolbert : outed as violent sex offender:  

Convicted Sex Offender Leads Transgender Rights Effort in North Carolina

Child Sex Predator Paul Ray Witherspoon, ticketed for using female restroom uses “Gender Identity” defense

Jonathan “Johanna” Adrian Wolf – convicted sex offender, raped deaf girl, became trans activist fighting for locker room access

Xena M Grandichelli/Jeffrey Willsea a registered sex offender convicted of rape, becomes trans rights activist

Trans activist outs himself as a pedophile rapist

Lynchburg transadvocate arrested after assisting at-risk youth

Luis Morales “Synthia China Blast” – brutal rape and murder of 13-year-old Ebony Williams

Sexual predator jailed after claiming to be ‘transgender’ to assault women in shelter

Sex offender uses crowdfunding to raise money for gender reassignment surgery – molested 13 year old girl

Plymouth transgender sex offender jailed after coming into contact with child

Duane LeRoy Fox/Jennifer Ann Jasmaine – Committed offenses against 14 year old

Transsexual who downloaded sickening images of child pornography escaped jail because a judge said prison would be too tough a place for her

Louis Massei – Gang rape of a 16-year-old girl

Registered sex offender arrested on suspicion of entering a school campus and using a false female name

William Karl Olsen – Sexually violent predator

James Joseph Allard – Sex penetration with foreign object of victim under 14 years of age

Lewis “Lennea Elizabeth”  Stevens –  charged with possession of child pornography

Convicted sex offender sues over sex change operation

Convicted Rapist Sues NJ Prisons Over Sex Change

Man in women’s clothing arrested for child porn

Cross dressing pervert was jailed after breaching the terms of his sexual offences prevention order

‘High risk’ sex offender locked up

Transgender Woman Arrested on Bestiality Charges: Placed Craiglists Ad To Arrange Sex With a Horse

David Megarry Jr. aka Sandra Jo Batista – convicted child rapist

Ronny Edward Darnell – repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl:

literally hundreds more examples here and here, and some more here

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William Alex Hudson

William “Bill” Alex Hudson, 82, of Spartanburg, SC, died Wednesday, December 13, 2017, at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born July 9, 1935, in Hartsville, SC, he was the son of the late Elijah Lee Hudson and Daisy Parnell Hudson. A 1953 graduate of North Charleston High School, Bill was a gifted athlete. He played football, basketball, and track in high school and was selected to play in the South Carolina Shrine Bowl as well as the North-South All Star game. The youngest of five boys, he followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and attended Clemson University on an athletic scholarship for football. While in college, he played in the 1957 Orange Bowl and was selected to play in the National East-West All Star game and the North-South All Star game. He was also a member of the South Carolina and Clemson Athletic Halls of Fame. Bill was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in 1957 in the second round. Instead of playing there, he chose to double his salary and play for the Canadian Football League. During his off-season, he continued to work on his education and graduated from Clemson University with an Education Degree in 1959. While in Canada, he played for the Montreal Allouettes for three years. In 1961, he played for the San Diego Chargers where he was a member of the “Fearsome Foursome Defensive Line”. He was selected as team captain along with Jack Kemp from 1961-1963 and was a member of the 1961 Pro Bowl team. Bill finished his pro-football career in 1964 with the Boston Patriots. He worked as a professional scout for Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders for 17 years. In 1970, he started Puritan Industrial Maintenance which later would become Diversco, Inc. The company was a leader in the industrial cleaning, security and staffing business which grew to employ over 5400 employees throughout 16 states. Bill’s community accomplishments include: co-founder of the Spartanburg County Touchdown Club, elected “Entrepreneur of the Year” for the State of South Carolina, and over the years he helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for numerous charities including: YMCA, Boy Scouts, Spartanburg Regional, Clemson University and established the Hudson Family Clemson Football Position Endowment Scholarship. Bill and Lillian were members of St. Paul United Methodist Church for over 40 years. He was also a member of the Primetime Sunday School Class and the Men’s Club. Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Lillian H. Hudson, children: William “Alex” Hudson, II (Sherry), Beth Ann Hudson, Ginny Hudson Hammond (Mark); six grandchildren that he truly enjoyed and adored: Lanie Ann Hudson, William Alex Hudson, III, Alexa Sherry Hudson, John Matthew Hammond, Ross Hudson Hammond, and Lillian Grace Hammond; brothers, Earl and Bob Hudson; sister-in-law, Trish Ratliff; special nephews, Johnny and Clay Ratliff; special family friends, Elizabeth and Nathan Grizzard and their children, Tyler and Parker; and his dearly loved pugs, Susu and Biscuit. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by two brothers, Rufus and JC Hudson. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM Saturday, December 16, 2017, at St. Paul United Methodist Church, by The Rev. John L. Warren, Jr. The family will receive friends following the service in Poston Hall at the church. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, 1300 Fernwood-Glendale Rd., Spartanburg, SC 29307. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Hudson Family Scholarship at Clemson University, PO Box 1889, Clemson, SC 29633-1889 or St. Paul United Methodist Church, 1320 Fernwood-Glendale Road, Spartanburg, SC 29307. Bill will be dearly missed by his friends and the employees of the Eastside Hardees, Bojangles, Taco Bell, and Waffle House. The family would like to thank the Heart Center 5th floor nurses at Spartanburg Medical Center for the excellent care he received. Floyd’s Greenlawn Chapel from The JF Floyd Mortuary Crematory & Cemeteries via Spartanburg Funeral

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By: Aaron Sibarium

Published: Mar 21, 2024

LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five times

The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to a complaint filed with the university on Wednesday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. That misconduct includes presenting old studies as new research, which he has done at least five times over the course of his career.

The complaint, which was filed anonymously, implicates eight of Charleston’s publications, many of them coauthored, and accuses him of plagiarizing other scholars as well as duplicating his own work. It comes as the university is already investigating Charleston over a separate complaint filed in January, alleging that a 2014 study by him and his wife—Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston—is a facsimile of a study he published in 2012.

"This is an extraordinary case of serial misrepresentation and deception," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University. "The closest analogy would be someone who sells the same real estate to five different buyers, all of whom are unaware of the others."

In January, Charleston won a lifetime achievement award for "excellence in higher education." The university trumpeted the award in a press release, praising his "unwavering dedication to creating inclusive environments in academia" and noting his "wealth of academic accolades."

Charleston’s CV, however, appears to have been inflated by duplicate publication, the practice of publishing the same research in multiple journals without attribution. In 2014, for example, he published a pair of papers in two separate journals—the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education and the Journal of Progressive Policy & Practice—that are near-verbatim copies of each other.

Both describe a 15-person focus group conducted by an African-American woman and feature identical quotes from participants, all of whom appear to have been recruited from the same academic conference.

Neither paper indicates the other was published elsewhere—a troubling omission, scholars who reviewed both studies said.

"It is academic misconduct to publish essentially the same paper twice with no acknowledgment of the duplication," Alexander Riley, a sociologist at Bucknell University, told the Free Beacon. "It seems fairly clear that Charleston is gaming the system in order to get more on his CV than is merited by the amount of research he has actually done."

Charleston also appears to have recycled findings and interview responses from his 2010 dissertation, which involved a survey of black computer science students, in four subsequent papers: the 2012 and 2014 studies that were the subject of the previous complaint, as well as two additional studies published in 2016 and 2022.

Each study is framed as a novel survey addressing a gap in the scholarly literature. None cite Charleston’s dissertation or indicate that they are drawing on previously published material.

The odds that different people would give the same quotes across different studies, said Lee Jussim, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, are about the same as the odds that "monkeys typing on typewriters would reproduce Hamlet."

Charleston did not respond to a request for comment.

The complaint raises serious questions about how a flagship public university vetted one of its top administrators, whose career has been marked not just by questionable research practices but by criminal conduct.

Shortly after joining UW-Madison as a researcher in 2009, Charleston was charged in 2011 with attempting to strangle a police officer, according to documents obtained by the MacIver Institute, a conservative think tank in Wisconsin. He avoided a conviction through the Deferred Prosecution Program, a local initiative run by the district attorney’s office that offers first-time felons the chance to do community service in lieu of jail time and removes their arrest records from public databases.

"Even with a PhD, I’m looked at as a criminal," Charleston said in an interview in 2020. "[I]t has to be because of my color."

The arrest didn’t stop Charleston from climbing the ranks of the school’s diversity bureaucracy. Between 2010 and 2017, he helped to build Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory, which conducts research on "inclusive learning." He became assistant vice chancellor of student diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2017, then served as the inaugural dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at UW-Madison’s School of Education—the third-ranked education school in the country, according to US News and World Report. He became the chief diversity officer of the entire university in 2021.

Charleston is also a clinical professor of education, has led "anti-racism" workshops for Wisconsin public school teachers, and sits on the state’s Equity and Inclusion Council, which helps "advance diversity, equity, and inclusion practices across Wisconsin state government."

The complaint calls into question the originality of the feted diversity scholar, who draws a $280,000 salary from UW-Madison and oversees tutoring services for students.

"The two 2014 papers do indeed appear to be two versions of the same paper," Riley said. "I don't see the two as distinct from one another in any substantive way."

Both papers also share a prominent coauthor: Jerlando Jackson, now the dean of the Michigan State University College of Education, who advised Charleston’s dissertation at UW-Madison and also coauthored one of the studies based on it. The overlap raises additional questions about norms of academic integrity at education schools and within the field of DEI scholarship, which has come under intense scrutiny in recent months amid a drip-drip of plagiarism scandals.

"Either [Charleston and Jackson] are ignorant of this principle of research publication ethics," Riley said, referring to rules against duplicate publication, "or they were both aware of what they were doing."

Jackson did not respond to a request for comment.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it"takes all allegations of research misconduct seriously" and that it would investigate the complaint. Charleston, the school added, is a "valued member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison leadership team and we continue to support his work."

Wednesday’s complaint marks the fourth time this year that a DEI official has been hit with charges of research misconduct. In addition to Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard’s chief diversity officer, plagiarism allegations have been made against Shirley Green, the Title IX coordinator for Harvard Extension School, and Alade McKen, the chief diversity officer of Columbia Medical School. The deluge followed the downfall of former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned in January after half of her published work was found to contain plagiarized material.

Unlike those other officials, who work for private universities with lavish endowments, Charleston is a government employee subject to a state budget. His role was on the chopping block last year after Wisconsin Republicans proposed a budget that would have cut $32 million from the UW system—the exact amount it spends on DEI initiatives.

A watered-down version of the proposal still drew fierce blowback from the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, which in December rejected a deal to cap DEI staff in exchange for pay raises and a new engineering school. The board reversed course after news broke that it had prioritized positions like Charleston’s over $800 million in additional funding.

That money has subsidized a scholar who appears to have little new to say. The four studies based on Charleston’s dissertation, which was submitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are strikingly similar to each other, regurgitating not just interview results but entire pages of text.

Each one discusses the challenges faced by African-American science students and argues, among other things, that mentorship can promote success in computer science. Three of the four studies include identical descriptions of survey participants, whose testimonials form the backbone for each paper.

"I know of no other cases where a researcher has simply repeated his dissertation findings like a broken record for twelve years," Wood said.

While scholars can reuse data as much as they like and often turn their dissertations into peer-reviewed articles, they are expected to provide appropriate attribution to earlier research if it has already appeared in an academic journal. Failure to do so can result in retractions and infringe on the copyright of the publisher.

Duplicate publication is sometimes considered a more serious offense than plagiarism because, on top of stealing a journal’s intellectual property and padding a scholar’s CV, it biases meta-analyses—papers that aggregate the results of prior studies and use them to make statistical generalizations about a body of research. Some meta-analyses in education focus on the very issues Charleston’s work has addressed, including the effects of mentorship and diversity training.

Riley, the Bucknell sociologist, argued that the four studies didn’t quite meet the bar for "unethical behavior" because they were all based on a single dissertation, unlike the pair of papers from 2014. But, he added, the redundancies were revealing nonetheless.

"I gather that there are a lot of people doing this in the DEI universe—basically reiterating the same claims over and over and over again in different venues," Riley said. "The field draws such people to it more or less naturally, given the orthodoxy on which it is based."

The complaint also accuses Charleston of plagiarizing other scholars in his dissertation and some of his peer-reviewed papers, including the one from 2012. He lifts several passages from a Ph.D. thesis by Leslie Pendleton Graham, who earned her Ph.D. in counselor education in 1997, without citing her in a footnote or parentheses.

He also borrows from a dissertation by Craig Alan Green, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2008, without any sort of attribution.

The complaint points out that by recycling a plagiarism-laden thesis, Charleston ensured his subsequent work would contain plagiarism.

"Much of LaVar’s scholarly work since the dissertation lifts language from the dissertation verbatim," the complaint reads. "But the dissertation is full of plagiarism. So LaVar’s peer-reviewed work has plagiarism throughout."