An investigation is underway after anti-Semitic messages were beamed onto campus buildings at the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday night. 
Anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian messages were projected onto at least three campus buildings at the university, including the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/antisemitic-slogans-projected-upenn-buildings-civil-rights-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Penn, which has been dealing with anti-Semitic threats since Hamas’ attack against Israel on October 7, is now looking into the latest incident as Penn Police have also launched an investigation. 
“Last night, vile, antisemitic messages were projected onto several campus buildings, including on Penn Commons, Huntsman Hall, and Irvine Auditorium,” Penn President Liz Magill <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Czb424fua_c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “Penn Police were notified and quickly responded, and a full investigation is currently underway. We will pursue this matter to the fullest extent and take swift action in accordance with our policies.”
Another message projected onto a building stated, “Zionism is racism,” and a third message said, “Penn funds Palestinian genocide.” Magill and the university administration have <a href="https://6abc.com/antisemitic-messages-university-of-pennsylvania-president-elizabeth-magill-penn/14039156/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken heat</a> recently from both those concerned with the dramatic rise in anti-Semitism and those who spew anti-Israel rhetoric. The nonprofit human rights organization The Brandeis Center said it would file a complaint against the university, alleging that &#8220;Penn has allowed its campus to become a hostile environment for its Jewish students as well as a magnet for anti-Semites.&#8221;
Magill recently addressed the rise in anti-Semitism at Penn after some on campus painted &#8220;swastikas and hateful graffiti.&#8221; Magill also said that other Hamas sympathizers were caught on camera at rallies chanting slogans “that glorify the terrorist atrocities of Hamas, that celebrate and praise the slaughter and kidnapping of innocent people, and that question Israel’s very right to exist.&#8221;
In one video, a Penn student talks about the October 7 massacre of over 1,000 Israelis, including women and children, referring to the day as “glorious.” 
“I want you all to remember how you felt when you saw those images and heard the news,” the student tells a crowd of pro-Hamas demonstrators. “I remember feeling so empowered and happy, so confident that victory was near and so tangible.” 
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A student from UPenn is seen speaking fondly about the “joyful” images of butchered Israelis from the “glorious October 7th.”
She felt “happy” upon hearing the news of dead Jews in Israel. 
In what appears to be a call for violence, she tells the crowd to “hold that feeling in… <a href="https://t.co/pdygANFmtY">pic.twitter.com/pdygANFmtY</a>
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Penn’s president added in her statement on Thursday that the open anti-Semitism on campus is “reprehensible.”
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“For generations, too many have masked antisemitism in hostile rhetoric,” Magill said. “These reprehensible messages are an assault on our values and cause pain and fear for our Jewish community. Penn has a long and rich history of robust debate about complicated issues of the day. Projecting hateful messages on our campus is not debate, it is cowardice, and it has no place at Penn.”
Penn is just one of the dozens of universities across the country witnessing anti-Semitic threats and harassment being carried out on their campuses. Anti-Semitic acts have been reported at numerous elite American universities including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-feel-safe-jewish-columbia-student-says-he-was-attacked-by-pro-palestinian-activist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cornell-cancels-classes-after-student-arrested-following-anti-semitic-death-threats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cornell</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-billionaire-bill-ackman-warns-of-dire-anti-semitism-at-harvard-that-is-getting-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-lecturer-who-helped-radicalize-colin-kaepernick-reportedly-told-jewish-students-to-stand-in-a-corner-after-hamas-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford</a> in the past month.

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Former Republican presidential candidate, Utah governor, and U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. told the University of Pennsylvania that the Huntsman Foundation — which has donated tens of millions of dollars to the university for decades — would <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-jon-huntsman-jr-wharton-halts-donations-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halt its funding</a> because of the university’s silence in the face of the evil perpetrated by Hamas.
Huntsman, a 1987 Penn graduate, served on the University&#8217;s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2001. He later served as deputy U.S. trade representative, ambassador to Singapore under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, ambassador to China under Barack Obama, and ambassador to Russia under Donald Trump. His father, Jon Huntsman Sr., graduated from Penn in 1959, donated $10 million to fund the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, and donated $40 million in 1998.
&#8220;Moral relativism has fueled the university’s race to the bottom and sadly now has reached a point where remaining impartial is no longer an option,&#8221; Huntsman Jr. said in an <a href="//E910D8A0-B904-4CC8-AE9E-A2A2CE6588D9/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email</a> to Penn President Liz Magill.
“The University’s silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel (when the only response should be outright condemnation) is a new low,” Huntsman wrote. “Silence is antisemitism, and antisemitism is hate, the very thing higher ed was built to obviate. Consequently, Huntsman Foundation will close its checkbook on all future giving to Penn — something that has been a source of enormous pride for now three generations of graduates. that his family will stop donating to Penn, stripping the University of a longtime donor amid backlash from influential trustees and alumni. My siblings join me in this rebuke.”
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BREAKING: 1987 College graduate Jon Huntsman Jr. told Penn President Liz Magill on Saturday that his family will stop donating to Penn, stripping the University of a longtime donor amid backlash from influential trustees and alumni.<a href="https://t.co/MMnNvTStZE">https://t.co/MMnNvTStZE</a>
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Magill and Provost John L. Jackson had previously stated last Tuesday that they were “devastated by the horrific assault on Israel,” but did not condemn the attack.
On Friday, Penn Board of Trustees member Vahan Gureghian announced he was resigning, saying, “Like so many elite academic institutions, the leadership of UPenn has failed us through an embrace of antisemitism, a failure to stand for justice, and complete negligence in the defense of its own students’ well being.”
By Saturday, one week after the Hamas attack, University Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-trustee-vahan-gureghian-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the “atrocious terrorist attacks.”
“In a statement to the DP, Bok wrote that former and current trustees met for two unofficial meetings with Magill in recent days to discuss guidance,” The Daily Pennsylvanian noted.
The Daily Pennsylvanian <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-magill-statement-antisemitism-hamas-israel">reported</a> on Sunday, “Amid backlash from some trustees and donors, Penn President Liz Magill issued another statement Sunday morning condemning Hamas and emphasizing the University&#8217;s position on antisemitism. In her second statement since the Hamas attack on Israel, Magill referred to the Hamas violence as a ‘terrorist assault,’ a change from her initial statement.”

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A former University of Pennsylvania swimmer for their women’s team revealed that she and her teammates were forced to undress numerous times each week in the same locker room as biological male Lia Thomas — and when they protested, they were offered psychological counseling.
Paula Scanlan, now a spokesperson for the Independent Women’s Forum, spoke before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Thursday. Scanlan began by noting that although she was not an NCAA champion, she held the New England independent school league record in the 400-yard freestyle record, a record that has stood since March of 2017.
“Lia, formerly Will, had personal best times in every freestyle event that were faster than the women’s world records,” she stated. “Once the season began, Thomas was leading the country in multiple events while only placing in the top 500 in those events on the men’s team.”
“While many of you already know this, what you do not know is the experiences of the women of the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team,” she asserted. “My teammates and I were forced to undress in the presence of Lia — a 6’4 biological male fully intact with male genitalia — 18 times per week. Some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls and others used the family bathroom to avoid this. When we tried to voice our concerns to the athletic department, we were told that Lia swimming and being in our locker room was a non-negotiable and we were offered psychological services to attempt to reeducate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male.”
“To sum up the university’s response, we, the women, were the problem, not the victims,” she said. “We were expected to conform, to move over and shut up. Our feelings didn’t matter. The university was gaslighting and fearmongering women to validate the feelings and identity of a male.”
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In April, Thomas suggested that women athletes who criticize Thomas for competing in women’s sports are “transphobic” but too scared to say so.
Thomas made the comments — which included the charge that seeing men as men and women as women was derived from “patriarchal ideas” —  while <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Crd1_kAJLRL/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking</a> to former NCAA swimmer Schuyler Bailar, who claims to be a man, on Bailar’s podcast.
Asked about the letter sent to the NCAA by parents of Thomas&#8217; teammates, warning against its rules permitting Thomas to participate in women’s sports, Thomas responded, “They&#8217;re like: ‘Oh, we respect Lia as a woman, as a trans woman, whatever, we respect her identity, we just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair.’ You can&#8217;t really have that sort of half-support, where like, I respect you as a woman here, but not here.”
“You can&#8217;t do that; you can&#8217;t sort of break down me as a person into little pieces,” Thomas declared.
“They&#8217;re using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs,” Thomas insisted. “I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people, but don’t want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out. And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half-support.”

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President Joe Biden vowed last week that his Department of Education was primed to attack unfair college admissions practices that favored &#8220;legacy&#8221; students and those who came from wealthy or powerful families — but he personally helped at least one member of his own family benefit from those practices.
Following the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chief-justice-roberts-accuses-liberal-justices-of-power-grab-in-affirmative-action-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ending Affirmative Action</a> in the college admissions process, Biden promised to look into &#8220;practices like legacy admissions&#8221; that he said only served to &#8220;expand privilege instead of opportunity.&#8221;
But according to a <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/joe-biden-wants-to-crack-down-on-privilege-in-education-he-called-upenns-president-to-get-his-granddaughter-in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Saturday by the Washington Free Beacon, President Biden was part of a concerted effort in 2018 to pressure the president of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania to accept his granddaughter, despite the school&#8217;s 5.9% admissions rate and her less-than-stellar grades.
&#8220;I applied early decision to Penn today!!&#8221; Maisy Biden reportedly texted her father, Hunter Biden, on October 31 of 2018 — and then asked just days later if he could provide an &#8220;update&#8221; on the status of her application.
&#8220;Going to try to see [University of Pennsylvania] Pres GUTMANN tomorrow,&#8221; Joe Biden texted Hunter on December 13, and two days later he followed up. &#8220;Had a great talk with Guttman [sic]. Maisy still in the game for regular acceptance. But must do well in class this period. It&#8217;s real. We should talk about tutors etc starting tomorrow.&#8221;
Hunter Biden relayed the news to Maisy, adding that she could potentially elevate her application if her lacrosse coach were to reach out to the coach at Penn and express her interest in playing there as well.
&#8220;I also think it would help if you had lax coach talk to their lax coach. Bottom line is that Guttman [sic] made clear that in order for her to explain the 11th grade you had to show improvement in 12th,&#8221; Hunter texted on December 15th. &#8220;Which is something I think we would have all liked to know form [sic] the start, but in fairness we were much later in the app process than usual and made it look like we weren&#8217;t 100% about Penn.&#8221;
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Several months later, Joe Biden got good news from the Dean of Admissions — they should expect a call from the University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann before the final acceptance results were posted on March 29th, 2019. Maisy Biden started at Penn that fall.
The Biden family&#8217;s ties to Gutmann did not begin there, however — the Penn president had been the one to award then-Vice President Joe Biden with an honorary doctorate in 2013 — and in 2016, she had met with both Joe and Hunter Biden several times. The Free Beacon&#8217;s report did not detail what may have happened in those meetings but did note the timing: approximately one year prior to the university&#8217;s Penn Biden Center coming to fruition.
And in July of 2021, President Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-pa-state-wire-europe-germany-government-and-politics-3a4cbb28261b8cc923a854782b9a5502" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed Gutmann</a> to a plum ambassadorship — in Germany. She was confirmed by the Senate six months later.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> named “non-binary transfeminine person” Alok Vaid-Menon as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ</a> Scholar in Residence.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivy League</a> school announced on Monday that the new residency, which is the first in the nation dedicated solely to “championing LGBTQ+ communities and scholarship,” was made possible through an “anonymous” $2 million donation.
“It’s a profound honor to be the Inaugural LGBTQ+ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. In the face of escalating malalignment we see a widening chasm between the reality of LGBTQ+ lives and the misrepresentation of our communities in media and society,” Vaid-Menon said in a <a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/alok-named-first-scholar-residence-penns-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “As LGBTQ+ scholars and artists we must continue to debunk anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation while also harnessing the power of LGBTQ+ storytelling to create a more inclusive and magnificent world. I’m looking forward to connecting with Penn students, faculty, and staff to celebrate the living poetry of our existence in these turbulent times.”
Vaid-Menon was identified as a “non-binary transfeminine person” who uses “they/them” pronouns in an <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/interview-alok-vaid-menon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Caravan. A <a href="https://www.alokvmenon.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> belonging to the incoming Ivy League scholar identifies Vaid-Menon as an “internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker” who explores “themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.” Vaid-Menon has received awards from prominent LGBTQ organizations such as GLAAD and the Stonewall Foundation.
The new opportunity at the University of Pennsylvania will not be the first time that the artist has been paid handsomely by academia. Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Vaid-Menon received $5,000 for a two-hour talk at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to discuss the book “Beyond the Binary,” which encourages readers to “see gender not in black and white, but in full color.”
Vaid-Menon drew upon experience “as a gender-nonconforming artist” to demonstrate that “gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.” According to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Pride Center, Vaid-Menon <a href="https://mtouch.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3557427614384292&amp;id=234522890008131" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> students that “true freedom isn’t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.”
The University of Pennsylvania’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center is the second oldest initiative in the nation dedicated to students who claim LGBTQ identity and administers the first fund on any American campus “supporting students making a gender transition.”
The elite postsecondary institution garnered national attention over the past two years as Lia Thomas, a man who claims transgender identity and competed on the school’s swimming team, sparked debate over males in female sports. Thomas won the NCAA Division I national championship in the 500-yard freestyle event and set a meet record in the 200-yard freestyle at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships.
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A female member of the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team formerly detailed the atmosphere of censorship that surrounded Thomas in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-female-penn-swimmer-reacts-to-lia-thomas-victory-at-ivy-league-championships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Daily Wire. “I think that there’s not really room for anyone to react to this situation in any way, other than saying they think it’s really progressive and the right thing,” she said. “If you want to tune into the livestreams and watch these podiums, not just the races, the podiums, and you look at the faces of the girls who are second, third, you see a smile, but they can only hold it up for so long. You can kind of see a little bit of sadness knowing that maybe they would be first.”

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When the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement opened five years ago, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) President Amy Gutmann <a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penns-new-home-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bragged of how Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> &#8220;unmatched personal connections&#8221; would help &#8220;advance the world order.&#8221;
Now, after classified documents were discovered at the Washington, D.C., think tank, concerns are being raised about foreign benefactors, particularly from China, and the revolving door of university employees who made their way into now-President Biden&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;This level of access and opportunity raises questions about who had access to the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center,&#8221; wrote House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-anonymous-chinese-donations-to-upenn-potentially-influenced-biden-administration-policies%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent letter</a> to UPenn President M. Elizabeth Magill. &#8220;It is imperative to understand whether any Biden family members or associates gained access to the classified documents while stored at the Penn Biden Center.&#8221;
UPenn&#8217;s prestigious Beltway outpost opened in February 2018 with high expectations. The think tank promised to become a hub for advancing diplomacy by bringing together staff and students and leaders from all across the global stage. &#8220;The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement was founded on the principle that a democratic, open, secure, tolerant, and interconnected world benefits all Americans,&#8221; a UPenn spokesperson told The Daily Wire.
Biden became UPenn&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor in 2017, shortly after leaving the vice presidency. He stayed with the university until April 2019, when Biden <a href="https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/a-message-to-the-penn-community-regarding-vice-president-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took an unpaid leave of absence</a> upon announcing his campaign for president.
UPenn paid Biden more than $900,000 for a position that did not involve regular classes but did result in about a dozen public appearances on campus, <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/joe-biden-penn-salary-lectures-20190712.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a 2019 investigative report from The Philadelphia Inquirer</a>. Citing higher-education experts, the article surmised Biden probably wasn&#8217;t paid so much for lectures as he was &#8220;for something less tangible: the prestige of associating with a former vice president and senator who had burnished his reputation as a global figure.&#8221; That didn&#8217;t stop Biden from exclaiming last year that he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1PZ1RIl9yU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked as a &#8220;full professor&#8221;</a> at UPenn for four years, a claim which <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/04/29/fact-check-joe-biden-full-professor-four-years/9555102002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PolitiFact determined</a> was &#8220;Half True.&#8221;
Nowadays, the website and social media accounts for the Penn Biden Center are relatively quiet, with no new posts since the spring of 2022. But in recent weeks the think tank reemerged as the epicenter of controversy rocking Biden&#8217;s presidency.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-center-classified-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News broke the story</a> last month that on November 2, days before the midterm elections, Biden&#8217;s attorneys found about 10 documents marked classified while clearing out Biden&#8217;s office at the center. The news outlet later reported <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-documents-fbi-search-penn-biden-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the FBI searched</a> the Penn Biden Center in mid-November, though it was unclear whether investigators found any additional classified materials.
With classified documents dating back to Biden&#8217;s time as vice president or U.S. senator also discovered at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/merrick-garland-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-biden-classified-document-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur</a> as special counsel to examine whether “any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter.&#8221; Biden has said he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-issues-statement-over-classified-documents-that-were-found-in-his-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;surprised&#8221;</a> government documents were found at his private office space and insisted there would be full cooperation with investigators.
Several aspects of the story remain unclear, including why it took so long for Biden&#8217;s team to clear out his old think tank office. And there is growing concern about how donations to UPenn from foreign countries reportedly tripled in the two years after the Biden Penn Center opened. The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watchdog-calls-on-biden-center-to-disclose-foreign-donations-as-doj-investigates-classified-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon reported</a> most of the $61 million in gifts and contracts between 2017 and 2019 came from China, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/watchdog-calls-for-transparency-from-university-of-pennsylvanias-biden-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing records</a> from the Department of Education. Republicans and others have long warned of Biden&#8217;s potential for conflicts of interest, especially with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-million dollar dealings</a> of the president&#8217;s son Hunter involving China and other countries.
&#8220;The danger of influence peddling is that it is not only the preferred avenue for corruption in Washington, but it often allows dangerous levels of access to targeted leaders,&#8221; George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/11/bidens-closet-it-is-not-the-crime-but-the-clarity-that-concerns-the-press-and-pundits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in a January column</a>. &#8220;Even if the public dodged this danger on the Chinese-funded office, it was not due to any lack of effort by the Bidens. The question now is how the public can feel confident that the FBI will show the same vigor in investigating the Bidens as it did [former President Donald] Trump.&#8221;
In his letter last month to UPenn&#8217;s president, Comer demanded a wide range of documents and communications, particularly those related to Chinese donors. &#8220;The American people deserve to know whether the Chinese Communist Party, through Chinese companies, influenced potential Biden Administration policies with large, anonymous donations to UPenn and the Penn Biden Center,&#8221; <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-01-18-Letter-UPenn-Penn-Biden-Center.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he wrote</a>.
A UPenn spokesperson told The Daily Wire the university received Comer&#8217;s letter and planned to respond in a timely manner. &#8220;It is important to reiterate that the Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;In fact, the University has never solicited any gifts for the Center. Since its inception in 2017 there have been three unsolicited gifts (from two donors) which combined total $1,100. Both donors are Americans. One hundred percent of the budget for the Penn Biden Center comes from university funds.&#8221;
A number of people who worked at UPenn and its D.C. think tank made the jump to Biden&#8217;s administration. Among them is Gutmann, who became ambassador to Germany. There is also Antony Blinken, a foreign policy fixture from the Obama administration who became <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/biden-cabinet/#state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">managing director of the Penn Biden Center</a> before leaving to join Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign, and later becoming his secretary of state.
Elliot Abrams, a longtime government foreign policy official across multiple administrations, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-classified-documents-think-tanks-14fd693c967e4422b0f6328e03cea189" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Associated Press</a> the think tank &#8220;started as a parking space for Biden people until he ran for president, and never really outgrew that start.&#8221;
When speaking about the center in a promotional video, Biden acknowledged one of his high-flying aims that came to pass. &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that we are going to see some future secretaries of states, and presidents, and national security advisers roll through this outfit,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s56haeeXMw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said.</a>

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The Penn Biden Center, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington</a> think tank where classified documents were found in November, hosted an event encouraging deeper U.S.-China ties.
The event took place as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> <a href="https://www.nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/special-counsel-on-classified-documents-must-investigate-anonymous-chinese-donations-to-biden-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> tens of millions of dollars from Chinese entities, much of which was donated anonymously. The Penn Biden Center was the repository of a stash of classified U.S. documents until President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s personal attorneys found the papers in the president’s office on November 2.
In June, the center hosted a two-day event for Congressional staffers that encouraged closer cooperation with China on issues such as clean energy and academia, a source familiar with the event told <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-think-tank-that-housed-classified-docs-also-hosted-event-that-pushed-greater-engagement-with-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a>. The event had no security posted, only staff to help attendees with information about the event.
The event was run by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Hudson Institute’s Rebeccah Heinrichs, an expert on national security, said the security failures associated with having the sensitive U.S. papers stored in the same building where such an event took place are “shocking.”
“The fact that [the documents] were not secured, [were] open and uncared for, and also that you had this other activity going on inside this facility, with individuals that may not have the best interests of the American people at heart, is shocking,” Heinrichs told the Free Beacon.
“I would like to know more about … who was going in and out of these specific workshops, these discussions, who has been through this facility,” she continued. “The American people deserve a full accounting of who may have had easy access to these documents.”
Republicans on Capitol Hill have taken notice of the University of Pennsylvania’s financial ties to China and other foreign countries. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has pledged to lead an investigation into the university, its foreign donors, and what ties they may have to the Penn Biden Center.
The chairman also plans to investigate the buyers of artwork by Biden’s son, Hunter. Hunter Biden, an amateur artist, has made pieces priced for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“We’re trying to trace the money,” Comer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-will-trace-the-money-flowing-into-penn-biden-center-hunter-biden-art-sales-comer-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We’ll be looking at bank statements. We’ll be looking at bank violations. That’s the next phase of our investigation because we’re trying to figure out who these anonymous sources are that are sending so much money to the Biden family schemes — the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Hunter Biden’s artwork.”

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Penn Biden Center Held Event Encouraging Closer U.S.-China Ties

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ChatGPT, a mass-market <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> chatbot launched by OpenAI last year, passed a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduate-level</a> business exam at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a>’s Wharton School.
The language processing tool has gained virality over the past several weeks as knowledge workers leverage the user-friendly artificial intelligence system to complete various tasks, such as writing emails and debugging code in a matter of moments. A research <a href="https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Christian-Terwiesch-Chat-GTP.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> from Wharton operations management professor Christian Terwiesch said that ChatGPT earned a grade between B and B- on a final exam usually presented to MBA students.
ChatGPT shows “a remarkable ability to automate some of the skills of highly compensated knowledge workers in general and specifically the knowledge workers in the jobs held by MBA graduates,” according to the paper. “It does an amazing job at basic operations management and process analysis questions including those that are based on case studies. Not only are the answers correct, but the explanations are excellent.”
Some 27% of professionals at prominent consulting, technology, and financial services companies have already used ChatGPT in various capacities, according to a <a href="https://www.fishbowlapp.com/insights/chatgpt-sees-strong-early-adoption-in-the-workplace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from Fishbowl. ChatGPT can formulate simple responses to users’ search queries; as a result, some have speculated that artificial intelligence chatbots could pose a significant threat to Google Search. OpenAI <a href="https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partnership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Monday that Microsoft would invest billions more dollars into the solution in the wake of investments offered for the platform in 2019 and 2021.
Terwiesch clarified that the performance from ChatGPT still had some significant deficiencies. The system made “surprising mistakes in relatively simple calculations” at the level of sixth-grade math that were often “massive in magnitude,” while the current version of the system “is not capable of handling more advanced process analysis questions, even when they are based on fairly standard templates.”
ChatGPT was nevertheless able to correct itself after receiving a hint from a human expert. “This has important implications for business school education, including the need for exam policies, curriculum design focusing on collaboration between human and AI, opportunities to simulate real world decision making processes, the need to teach creative problem solving, improved teaching productivity, and more,” the paper added.
Terwiesch described answers provided by ChatGPT as “short and sweet” and “superbly explained,” adding that the “simple user experience and the great answer put me in a state of awe, and I am sure it has impressed many users before me.” The drastically wrong answers led him to conclude that “we still need a human in the loop.”
Although conversations surrounding technological unemployment over the past several decades have often revolved around blue-collar workers losing their positions to automated robotics solutions, the widespread use of ChatGPT has introduced similar questions in white-collar professions. New York Times columnist and economics professor Paul Krugman recently <a href="https://archive.ph/T8sis#selection-769.228-769.368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that artificial intelligence “may be able to perform certain knowledge-based tasks more efficiently than humans, potentially reducing the need for some knowledge workers.”
On the other hand, Krugman and other commentators have acknowledged that ChatGPT and similar solutions can expedite menial tasks faced by knowledge workers, increasing their overall productive capacity. Various <a href="https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/if-youre-not-already-doing-these-10-productivity-hacks-in-chatgpt-youre-definitely-missing-out.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lists</a> circulating the internet in recent weeks describe how users leverage ChatGPT to summarize lengthy documents, build study guides, and translate articles.

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House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is calling on the University of Pennsylvania to provide information about anonymous Chinese donations to the university affiliated with the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
He wrote a letter to university President Liz Magill on Wednesday over concerns of foreign influence after the recent discovery of classified documents in President Joe Biden&#8217;s former office at the center, which is part of the Ivy League institution.
“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating President Biden’s possible illegal handling of sensitive, highly classified documents. Recent reports reveal President Biden’s attorneys discovered Obama-Biden Administration documents in an unsecured closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement—a Washington, D.C.-based think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania,” Comer <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-01-18-Letter-UPenn-Penn-Biden-Center.pdf">wrote</a>.
Comer blasted the president&#8217;s lax security over classified documents, arguing that the committee needs information on China&#8217;s donors to determine if there are national security threats.
“President Biden’s pattern of mishandling classified documents is alarming. The Committee is concerned about who had access to these documents given the Biden family’s financial connections to foreign actors and companies. The American people deserve to know whether the Chinese Communist Party, through Chinese companies, influenced potential Biden Administration policies with large, anonymous donations to UPenn and the Penn Biden Center,” he wrote.
In a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-anonymous-chinese-donations-to-upenn-potentially-influenced-biden-administration-policies%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, the Oversight Committee expressed concern that UPenn reportedly received millions of dollars in donations from anonymous Chinese sources. These donations allegedly tripled following the establishment of the Penn Biden Center, continuing as Biden explored a 2020 run for president.
“The Penn Biden Center appears to have acted as a foreign-sponsored source of income for much of a Biden Administration in-waiting,” Comer continued in the letter. “Between 2017 and 2019, UPenn paid President Biden more than $900,000, and the university employed at least 10 people at the Penn Biden Center who later became senior Biden administration officials.&#8221;
Comer argued that the evidence points to the need to determine who had access to the classified documents recently found in Biden&#8217;s former office at the university&#8217;s center in Washington, D.C.
&#8220;This level of access and opportunity raises questions about who had access to the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center. It is imperative to understand whether any Biden family members or associates gained access to the classified documents while stored at the Penn Biden Center,&#8221; he added.
Connections between Penn Biden Center staff members and the Biden administration are also a concern. Secretary of State Antony Blinken served as the center&#8217;s director from 2017 to 2019 and received more than $79,000 in salary. The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watchdog-calls-on-biden-center-to-disclose-foreign-donations-as-doj-investigates-classified-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> at least two additional former center staff members who later received positions in the Biden administration, along with the university&#8217;s former president, Amy Gutmann, who was appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany last year.
The Oversight Committee is not the only group seeking details on the connections between Biden and UPenn&#8217;s foreign donations.
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has also called for the university to disclose foreign contributions. NLPC filed a complaint against the university and the Biden Center in 2020 for failing to disclose the source of anonymous Chinese donations.
The watchdog group also recently <a href="https://www.nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/nlpc-files-foias-to-find-out-how-classified-documents-ended-up-at-biden-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of Justice and National Archives to determine how classified documents ended up in Biden&#8217;s former office.

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Student <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate</a> protesters at the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> disrupted the school’s homecoming football game for over an hour on Saturday.
More than 60 students rushed the field during halftime as the Quakers took on Yale University’s Bulldogs and were supported with cheers by many attendees, according to a <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/10/protest-homecoming-football-game-fossil-free-penn-franklin-field" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper.
Nineteen individuals associated with student activist group Fossil Free Penn were later escorted off the field and detained by university police after refusing to exit.
The student-activists held bright orange banners with slogans such as “Divest,” marking a call for the school to end investments in fossil fuel ventures, as well as “Save the UC Townhomes.” During the university’s fall convocation, more than 100 protesters disrupted incoming Penn President Liz Magill’s comments about the diversity of the incoming cohort to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-pennsylvania-convocation-grinds-to-a-halt-as-demonstrators-students-protest-penn-trification" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebuke the closure</a> of 70 nearby affordable housing units.
“The intentional disruption of today’s football game was neither an appropriate expression of free speech, nor consistent with Penn’s open expression guidelines,” university spokesperson Ron Ozio told The Daily Pennsylvanian. A statement from Penn Athletics likewise said that the students’ conduct “does nothing to advance their legitimate policy concerns, concerns the university shares, but rather impinges upon the rights of others in the community to participate in the life of the campus.”
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Penn students rush the field nearing the end of halftime of a Penn-Yale football game, protesting climate and community justice from Penn’s administration. <a href="https://t.co/LiPkDmC5VO">pic.twitter.com/LiPkDmC5VO</a>
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In a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CkEXDR6JHpu/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message</a> posted to social media, Fossil Free Penn noted that its “escalation” was necessary because Penn has not met their requests.
“It was only in this highly visible forum that we were able to get national press that is needed to push Penn to meet our demands,” the group said, adding that the Ivy League school must “take action” if administrators want “protests to end.” Otherwise, the school can “expect resistance” from the group, which recently established tents in the center of campus for more than one month.
The disruption of the homecoming game follows multiple climate protests in Europe. A pair of vandals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw tomato soup</a> on Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Sunflowers” painting, valued at nearly $85 million, at an art museum in London before gluing their hands to the nearby wall. Another group of environmental protesters likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/environmental-protesters-glue-themselves-to-floor-they-complain-they-cant-poop-conservatives-roar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">glued themselves</a> to the floor at a Porsche facility in Germany before complaining that they were not provided bowls into which they could defecate.
As shown in footage from the Philadelphia Inquirer, most of the students left the field to avoid arrest, while the remainder were escorted from the stadium handcuffed in zip ties. Some in the crowd cheered as the students exited the area.
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Dozens of student protesters representing the Fossil Free Penn organization flooded the field during Penn’s homecoming game against Yale Saturday at Franklin Field.
The group planned the action after an ongoing fight with Penn over climate issues and community justice. <a href="https://t.co/uojDaZMB0z">pic.twitter.com/uojDaZMB0z</a>
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Sarah Sterinbach, a student involved in the protest, told the outlet that disrupting the game was among the most important moments of her life.
“We felt like this escalation was necessary,” she recounted. “We know Penn can be a force of good for the community, and there’s a lot of alumni at this game, and we want to show the people in power that we aren’t stopping until they are a force of change and a force of good.”
The protest came days after Harvard Management Company announced that the school’s endowment <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-university-endowment-loses-2-3-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shrank</a> $2.3 billion in the past fiscal year, specifically mentioning that fossil fuel divestment “weighed upon performance.” At the end of last year, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-endowment-suffers-through-woke-investing-while-the-university-of-texas-drills-oil-and-rakes-it-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the university would allow remaining investments in the fossil fuel industry to expire while refusing to adopt new ones after <a href="https://divestharvard.medium.com/tireless-organizing-yields-harvard-divestment-victory-b68f43b271a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaigns</a> from student activists.

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The Wharton School of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> added majors last month relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI</a>), as well as environmental, social, and governance factors for business (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESGB</a>).
Undergraduates at the elite business school can add concentrations in the programs to their bachelor of science in economics degrees, while MBA students can major in the subjects. Graduates will enter the job market with the new credentials beginning in the spring of 2025.
“We are proud and delighted that Wharton will be offering these new concentrations and majors, supported by the School’s world-class evidence-based curriculum,” Wharton Deputy Dean Nancy Rothbard said in a <a href="https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/story/wharton-welcomes-two-new-majors-and-concentrations-dei-and-esgb/?fbclid=IwAR0mCUnwIO87DSjP2XPzlH5wslKDyQSkh5sAS4Dh3sTbtokQNAYSj_YdCLQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “We look forward to seeing what our graduates accomplish.”
Both DEI and ESG have been the subject of intense criticism from investors, academics, and lawmakers. While the former set of theories tends to promote the mingling of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-stunningly-corrupt-enterprise-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-resigns-as-tenured-professor-at-university-of-toronto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial or sexual identity</a> with critical hiring and staffing decisions, the latter tends to cause the jumbling of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paypal-ceos-interview-with-world-economic-forum-could-suggest-mentality-behind-backtracked-misinformation-penalty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progressive social agendas</a> with the maximization of profits.
Wharton typically <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-01194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">places first</a> in national rankings of collegiate business programs. With alumni such as investor Warren Buffett, entrepreneur Elon Musk, and former President Donald Trump, the institution is the oldest postsecondary business school in the world.
Wharton also tapped Renita Miller to serve as the school’s inaugural chief diversity officer. “In her role at Wharton, Renita will report directly to me to align and amplify our existing and exploratory DEI practices to solidify a culture of dignity, respect, and transparency through the appreciation of differences,” Wharton Dean Erika James wrote of the former Princeton University diversity czar in an <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/09/wharton-first-ever-chief-diversity-officer-renita-miller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> last month. “Renita is well-versed in the data-informed practices necessary for success in this position, and will bring a spirit of leadership, empirical thinking and open perspective to the School.”
Students at Wharton already had the opportunity to take extensive coursework in socially conscious management through the business, energy, environment, and sustainability (BEES) concentration. Courses such as <a href="https://catalog.upenn.edu/courses/fnce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FNCE 2540</a>, which teaches students about investment approaches that “generate social benefits as well as financial returns,” and <a href="https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/undergraduate/course-descriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGST 2600</a>, which encourages students to weigh the “intersection of climate change, environmental management, ethics, and leadership,” are among the classes required for the existing concentration.
“Students that are interested in social impact, entrepreneurship, innovation, risk management, and circular economy are excellent fits for this concentration. The role of sustainability has evolved in the past several years, sustainability is no longer a trend,” the concentration <a href="https://undergrad-inside.wharton.upenn.edu/envp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description</a> argues. “It is now in the fabric of every organization, from its internal operations to its procurement policies, as well as strategic investments.”
Amid the most recent stock market downturn, however, ESG investments <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virtue-signaling-isnt-free-how-woke-investing-fell-apart-once-the-economy-got-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tended to suffer</a> the most as investors overexposed their funds to the technology sector while avoiding fossil fuel investments. Though technology companies are known for bankrolling social initiatives in reaction to events like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-year-after-george-floyd-americas-biggest-corporations-earmark-37-billion-for-racial-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death of George Floyd</a> or the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-woke-businesses-vowing-to-cover-travel-costs-for-employees-abortion-tourism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturning of Roe v. Wade</a>, they were also the first to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/recession-fears-lead-big-tech-companies-to-pause-hiring-cut-jobs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lay off</a> large portions of their staff as the stock market began its recent tailspin.
For instance, iShares’ <a href="https://www.ishares.com/us/products/308574/ishares-esg-msci-usa-leaders-etf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG Aware MSCI ETF</a>, which has its largest holdings in companies like Microsoft and Alphabet, is down nearly 26% since the beginning of 2022, slightly lower than the overall S&amp;P 500 index. Meanwhile, iShares’ <a href="https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239741/ishares-global-energy-etf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Energy ETF</a>, dominated by oil and gas conglomerates like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, has risen nearly 35% over the same period.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s</a> convocation was disrupted on Monday as over 100 protestors — including members of the freshman class — used the ceremony to protest gentrification.
The sign-bearing demonstrators interrupted Penn President Liz Magill’s comments about the diversity of the incoming cohort to protest the closure of 70 affordable housing units, according to student-run newspaper <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/08/penn-convocation-uc-townhomes-liz-magill-class-of-2026">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a>. Some of the demonstrators were reportedly incoming freshmen.
“Welcome to the Penn community. We accept you. We love you,” a protestor said to the crowd via megaphone. “Many of you, like us, have been dispossessed. Many of you, like us, may come from low-income areas. It is important to know what institutions like this do to us when we are not paying them to accept us. It is important to know what this institution has been doing for decades.”
Magill was forced to fully pause her speech as protestors streamed into the convocation from nearby Locust Walk. University Chaplain Charles “Chaz” Howard, who also <a href="https://chaplain.upenn.edu/staff/chaplainhoward/">serves</a> as the elite school’s Vice President for Social Equity and Community, attempted to tell the protestors that he understood their motivations before reminding them that the event was meant to celebrate the incoming class.
The protestors chanted “Save UC Townhomes!” and “Stop Penn-trification!&#8221;
Magill, a former University of Virginia administrator who recently replaced former Penn President Amy Gutmann after her nomination by President Joe Biden to serve as United States ambassador to Germany, made another attempt at continuing her first major speech at the university.
&#8220;Many of our breakthroughs are the result of decades of productive disagreement with prevailing orthodoxies. A community of diverse individuals can&#8217;t live together unless they can listen to and learn from one another,&#8221; Magill said, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “Democracy cannot work unless people can live together, learn from one another and, paradoxically, disagree.&#8221;
The protestors, part of Save the UC Townhomes Coalition, argue that the university is contributing to the pending eviction of low-income residents at UC Townhomes as the school attracts affluent residents and businesses. Altman Management Company, which owns UC Townhomes, chose not to extend its affordable housing contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, informing residents last year that they had until July 8 to find new homes, according to <a href="https://www.34st.com/article/2022/08/university-city-townhomes-gentrification-displacement">34th Street</a>.
The move-out date had been extended to September 7 as most residents had not received Housing Choice Vouchers, which are required to apply for federally subsidized housing. Demonstrators from Save the UC Townhomes Coalition set up more than 15 tents on the premises and refused to leave until their demands were met, leading the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office to tear down the encampment on August 8.
Over the past year, the University of Pennsylvania attracted national attention as <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/lia-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lia Thomas</a> — a male who used to go by “Will” but now claims transgender identity and competes on the women’s swimming team — set multiple records and won the NCAA Division I national championship.
Although the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lia-thomas-nominated-by-upenn-rejected-by-ivy-league-as-ncaa-woman-of-the-year">suggested</a> nominating Thomas for the distinction of NCAA “Woman of the Year” — which recognizes “female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in their community, in athletics and in academics” — other Ivy League schools instead opted to nominate Columbia University fencing champion Sylvie Binder.

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