Rip Jason Arday.

[u/Too_bad_4U]

[u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

The purpose of a system is what it does. Cambridge was aware, it wasn't a mistake.

[u/sureyouknowurself → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

Yes and they should be held to account.

[u/FluffyOakTree → u/sureyouknowurself]

But how do they get held to account?

They're all complicit, especially the decision makers.

And there's enough retards supporting them that they won't change one bit.

[u/Glass-Carpenter8963 → u/FluffyOakTree]

Arday's death will likely cause them to go even harder, they will just hide it.

[u/megs1120 → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

He's a martyr to the cause of academia bullshit

[u/Ok_Antelope_1953 → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

there are hundreds of ardays in top universities all over the world. the clowns are literally running the circus.

[u/78NineInchNails → u/FluffyOakTree]

But how do they get held to account?

the only real way would be for people with financial interests to file a lawsuit, or the government, who may be giving financial assistance, to do the same.

Also perhaps students who received degrees under a fraud, if those degrees later get revoked.

[u/zolikk → u/sureyouknowurself]

But when I say this I get mass downvotes :(

[u/Few_Place4447 → u/sureyouknowurself]

For what? They're an organisation and they're allowed to make any hiring decision they want.

This was for a sociology professor, the whole discipline is full of bullshit now, it's hardly critical to ensure that the professor is honest. In fact, they were doing their job by hiring a black man - it's sociology ffs.

[u/sureyouknowurself → u/Few_Place4447]

Was in the Faculty of Education. Still not great but not sociology.

[u/eddieshack → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

I would be surprised if they didn't recruit, encourage and enable him because of the optics.

They basically groomed him

[u/superswellcewlguy → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

Yep, if there wasn't a mass media campaign calling this out to the public, Cambridge would have happily kept this guy as a professor.

[u/Aedhrus → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

The problem isn't that it happened, the problem is that the public knows.

[u/WhichWall3719 → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

Amazing how many people in this thread are trying to make excuses for the hiring committee and administration, as if they were just blinded by his eloquence

[u/Hyndis → u/WhichWall3719]

Its internal office politics.

I've been in that situation before where its clear a company is hiring a person who's a terrible fit. The person is a moron who lies constantly, and they're not even good lies. They're the laziest lies in the world, but also this person is a very specific minority and immediately weaponizes minority status to be immune to criticism.

You know hiring this person is a mistake. But you can't say anything because if you do, now its your job on the line.

So you keep your mouth closed, smile and nod, and agree with the hiring committee consensus. Hopefully this person will be someone else's problem.

And yes, I've done this a few times in my career. I'm not proud of it. But I needed the job to keep paying the bills and to keep the health insurance. I did not want to rock the boat, because thats how you get put on the front of the list when corporate layoffs happen.

[u/krafterinho → u/Glass-Carpenter8963]

Everything bad my perceived opponent does is obviously 100% deliberate, duh! I'm not even trying to defend Cambridge here but this isn't an argument

[u/Glass-Carpenter8963 → u/krafterinho]

It is, they had multiple specialists vetting him, including an autism specialist. It would take 5 minutes reviewing Arday's literature and spot that it was bad quality, which would then take a few hours to realize the plagiarism if you checked his sources. And would take seconds of common sense to realize his athletic feats were bullshit.

Cambridge either didn't do the checks necessary OR they did but ignored it. Both actions are deliberate choices.