Three former University of Pennsylvania women’s swimmers have filed a lawsuit over biological males being allowed to use female locker rooms and participate in their competitions.
The students, who have since graduated, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against their university, Harvard University, the Ivy League Council of Presidents, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The lawsuit is based on their experience with teammate Lia Thomas, a former male swimmer who started identifying as a woman and dominating female competitions.
The lawsuit, filed by Grace Estabrook, Margo Kaczorowski, and Ellen Holmquist, with <a href="https://iconswomen.com/take-on-the-ivy-league/">support</a> from the Independent Council on Women&#8217;s Sports (ICONS), was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/former-lia-thomas-teammates-sue-ivy-league-ncaa-alleging-aggressive-push-pro-trans-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided exclusively</a> to Fox News and has been reviewed by The Daily Wire. The women are seeking damages for “pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expenses costs” and more for the institutions allowing Thomas and other trans-identifying men into women&#8217;s spaces and competitions, which they say violated their rights under Title IX. Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination based on sex, and was initially created to ensure women have equal opportunities for sports.
But over the past decade, schools have allowed biological men to self-identify into women’s sports, taking <a href="https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/un-study-reveals-transgender-athletes-have-won-nearly-900-medals-in-womens-competitions-united-nations-sports-lgbt-gender-identity-title-ix-athletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of medals</a> from women.
The three women now suing have argued that being forced to change clothes in front of Thomas, who still has male genitalia, left them “repeatedly emotionally traumatized.” It can take around 30 minutes for a competitive swimmer to get into their skintight swimsuits, meaning the women had to spend at least that much time in a vulnerable position in front of a biological man, who was also changing.
&#8220;The UPenn administrators told the women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas’s participation on the UPenn Women’s team, they should seek counseling and support from [UPenn’s student wellness center] and the LBGTQ center,” the lawsuit says.
&#8220;The administrators also invited the women to a talk titled, ‘Trans 101.’ Thus, the women were led to understand that UPenn’s position was that if a woman on the team had any problem with a trans-identifying male being on her team that woman had a psychological problem and needed counseling,” the lawsuit added.
The former swimmers also allege that the administrators told them not to publicly speak out about the situation, or risk consequences.
&#8220;The UPenn administrators went on to tell the women that if the women spoke publicly about their concerns about Thomas’ participation on the Women’s Team, the reputation of those complaining about Thomas being on the team would be tainted with transphobia for the rest of their lives and they would probably never be able to get a job,’&#8221; the lawsuit says.
The women are suing Harvard as well as UPenn because Harvard hosted the NCAA women’s championship, where Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, and 400-yard freestyle relay as a senior.
Thomas has continued to fight to be allowed to compete against biological women, even attempting to be allowed to compete in elite women’s races post-college, but a legal challenge was denied last year, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lia-thomas-loses-legal-battle-over-rules-preventing-trans-identifying-swimmers-from-competing-in-elite-womens-races" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
On Wednesday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-to-sign-executive-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an executive order</a> to keep biological men out of women’s sports.

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Pennsylvania GOP legislators <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/gop-lawmakers-sink-aid-to-penn-as-statehouses-watch-universities-handle-israel-hamas-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> millions of dollars in funding for the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school in the wake of the university’s tepid response to anti-Semitism on its campus.
The vote in the Pennsylvania House was taken four days after Penn President Liz Magill — harshly criticized for her testimony at a congressional hearing where she said calling for the genocide of Jews would not violate the school&#8217;s code of conduct on bullying and harassment unless &#8220;the speech turns into conduct” — resigned.
“Until more is done at the university in terms of rooting out, calling out and making an official stance on antisemitism being against the values of the university, I cannot in good conscience support this funding,” GOP House Minority Leader Bryan Cutler stated in opposing the $33.5 million in funding for the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school.
Magill’s resignation was not enough for the university to pursue if it wanted to confront anti-Semitism, Cutler, who was formerly the speaker of the House when it was controlled by the GOP, added.
Cutler, a religious Baptist, <a href="https://www.repcutler.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took care</a> of his younger sister and parents when he was a high school student and both his parents were diagnosed with ALS, which later took their lives.
Every Democrat voted for the funding — which represents 18% of the budget for the veterinary school — while 76 out of the 101 Republicans in the House opposed it, leaving the funding short of gaining the required two-thirds majority.
Even before Magill’s remarks, major donors pulled their funding from the university over its stance in the Israel-Hamas war. Within a week after the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis, Apollo Management CEO Marc Rowan, a Penn graduate who donated $50 million to the business school in 2018, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/apollo-ceo-marc-rowan-demands-upenn-leaders-resign-over-failure-to-condemn-hamas-terror/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> Magill and Scott Bok, chair of the board of trustees, resign. “I call on all UPenn alumni and supporters who believe we are heading in the wrong direction to ‘Close their Checkbooks&#8217;” until the two resigned, he wrote.
Days later, 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.
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Huntsman, a 1987 Penn graduate, served on the University&#8217;s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2001. 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 email 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.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-u-s-ambassador-jon-huntsman-halts-millions-in-funding-from-penn-over-its-response-to-hamas-attacks">Former U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Halts Millions In Funding From Penn Over Its Response To Hamas Attacks</a>

University Of Pennsylvania Sued By Students Claiming Antisemitism On Campus

Pennsylvania GOP Blocks Funding For UPenn For Allowing Anti-Semitism On Campus

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Many today have a greater interest in the perception of virtue through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) narratives rather than making a real, tangible impact on improving the lives of others. This is particularly true on college campuses. The support for Claudine Gay at Harvard highlights the insulating powers of DEI, as President Gay fits into the “oppressed” role within the DEI framework, despite attending both an elitist high school and college in Exeter and Stanford respectively. This position of being among the “oppressed” gives her great power. In fact, DEI lays at the heart of the outbreak of the surge in vile behavior, including the recent calls for genocide centered around American college campuses.
The epitome of such moral bankruptcy is my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. Penn has rightfully been blasted in the news over the past few months for both platforming calls for genocide and failing to protect female athletics, resulting in a hemorrhaging of key donors. The university announced that Penn President Liz Magill resigned due to her response to anti-Semitism on campus. Undoubtedly, the university hopes that this will put an end to the public scrutiny of UPenn. But Magill’s exit does nothing to change the core rot at UPenn. Magill, as a white woman, was relatively easy to displace within the DEI framework. While Magill was not quite as low as a straight white male on the DEI hierarchy, she was low enough to be removed without substantial backlash.
Magill’s resignation is a start, but the real problems at UPenn — and in our university system at-large — predate Magill’s tenure, and they will continue unless they are directly confronted and real change is made. The university’s embrace of the DEI victim matrix hasn’t just led to an outbreak of anti-Semitism, but to speech code policies that discriminate based on viewpoint.
For example, how did the university decide that calls for genocide were protected speech but questioning the differences between men and women wasn’t? The answer is the twisted moral framework of equity, which forbids students, professors, and university presidents alike from criticizing anyone who is part of an “oppressed” group.
The current system values diversity, equity, and inclusion over meritocracy and truth. Today, university leaders, professors, and fellow students cram down their views of equity-based morality on students, with no room for dissent, which is how we got to where we are today.
I personally experienced this when I tried to speak against having a naked man present when I changed in the locker room at Penn. I was censored because the individual I spoke out against had a higher “oppression” DEI score than I did. The DEI framework and hierarchy enforced at the university ensure that certain groups are protected at all costs, and I was not in that select group.
Taking a deeper look at Penn specifically, professors at Penn <a href="https://www.univstats.com/salary/university-of-pennsylvania/faculty/">receive</a> an average salary of approximately $172,360, which is almost triple the average household income in the United States. To put this in perspective, I made $17 an hour as a Head TA in the engineering school. These professors are highly incentivized to reinforce diversity, equity, and inclusion ideologies and their corresponding anti-meritocratic and anti-free speech behaviors. I even had a professor refer to 9/11 as a “cultural misunderstanding,” as an attempt to promote false anti-Western rhetoric.
So the question remains: How does Liz Magill’s resignation change this issue? After all, Magill is still a tenured professor at Penn Law School. The incentive structures are still in place to promote this radical ideology — and unless donors pull out for broader, sweeping changes, the progress around the recent resignations of Magill and Chairman Bok is all for naught.
To prevent such shameful behavior from occurring in the future, we cannot lose sight of the root cause of these issues. The failure of Penn’s leadership is symptomatic of the deeper issues embedded in DEI philosophies, and without removing those from our ethos, we will ultimately fail to protect future generations from falling into a morally bankrupt delusion. As a member of the next generation, I call on Penn donors, alums, and fellow Americans to continue this fight against this moral perversion and return to the American ideals of free speech and meritocracy.
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Paula Scanlan is an ambassador with Independent Women’s Forum (iwf.org) and a former swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a teammate of Lia Thomas.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

University Presidents Testify In House Hearing On Campus Antisemitism

You Can Fire The Presidents, But The Deeper Issues On College Campuses Must Be Addressed

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Rep. Elise Stefanik&#8217;s (R-NY) office released a statement this week ripping into the NBC sketch comedy show &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; for its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely-panned cold open</a> on the recent congressional hearing on anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the country.
Notably, Saturday&#8217;s cold open bizarrely attacked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stefanik</a> for asking about students&#8217; calls for Jewish genocide while almost entirely backing off the university presidents, whose disastrous testimonies have already culminated in at least one resignation.
“Elise did not watch it,&#8221; Stefanik senior advisor Alex DeGrasse <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/entertainment/cecily-strong-was-uncomfortable-with-snl-anti-semitism-sketch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post. &#8220;However, her office was flooded with messages from thousands of Americans across the political spectrum — Democrats and Republicans — who were appalled and disgusted by the antisemitic trash spewed by unfunny, morally bankrupt ‘comedians.'&#8221;
“SNL made history with the worst cold open ever because everyone knows there is absolutely no humor in the vile answers from the university presidents regarding their failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people,&#8221; DeGrasse added.
During the hearing, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill refused to acknowledge that calling for the genocide of Jews violates UPenn’s code of conduct on bullying and harassment. She resigned from her position on Saturday, mere hours before the SNL sketch aired, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
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In the same hearing, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> was similarly questioned about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s codes of conduct. She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> by saying that it depends “on the context.” Gay added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
The sketch, however, portrays Stefanik as unhinged for pressing the collegiate leaders on the issue, while those in academia were handled by the SNL team with kid gloves and largely presented as reasonable.
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Conservatives online quickly reacted to the SNL sketch. Conservative Emily Zanotti, for example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X, “I mean, I get that SNL is typically a mess, but how do you watch that hearing and come out of it thinking Stefanik was the right target of satire?”
Radio host Rob Carson commented, “If there is no truth in satire, it’s not funny. This isn’t funny.”
“How to explain SNL siding with Ivy league (sic) neo-racists? Wondering what colleges their writers attended,” Fox News host Greg Gutfeld wrote.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘A New Low’: SNL Wrecked For Skit Mocking Elise Stefanik In College Anti-Semitism Hearing</a>

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Stefanik’s Office Blisters SNL For Panned Sketch Mocking Rep. In Anti-Semitism Hearing

Stefanik’s Office Blisters SNL Over Panned Sketch Mocking Rep. Over Anti-Semitism Hearing 

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Former Saturday Night Live (SNL) star Cecily Strong <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850181/SNL-anti-Semitism-hearings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> pulled out last minute from performing in Saturday&#8217;s widely-panned cold open, which targeted GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY) for her questions during a recent Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities instead of the college leaders who were widely criticized for their testimonies.
Strong rehearsed the sketch earlier in the week as Stefanik, according to a <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/cecily-strong-snl-elise-stefanik-cold-open-saturday-night-live/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Wrap, but was ultimately swapped for a relatively new cast member named Chloe Troast.
It remains unclear why Strong did not play Stefanik in the final sketch; she has not commented publicly on the matter. There has been speculation that the former SNL star will be back next week when fellow alum Kate McKinnon is set to make her return to host the sketch show.
Despite the Congressional hearing already culminating in at least one university president resigning from her position, SNL decided to largely take aim at Stefanik, who appeared visibly stunned that the collegiate leaders seemed to run cover for students she said had been &#8220;calling for the genocide of Jews.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill, for example, refused to acknowledge that calling for the genocide of Jews violates UPenn’s code of conduct on bullying and harassment. Magill resigned on Saturday following wide backlash, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> was similarly questioned about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s codes of conduct. She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> by saying that it depends “on the context.” Gay added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
There have since been calls for Gay to resign from her position. And compounding her problems, the university president is now under fire for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-harvard-president-claudine-gay-now-under-fire-for-alleged-plagiarism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegations of plagiarism</a> on her Harvard dissertation.
Conservatives online quickly reacted to the SNL sketch. Conservative Emily Zanotti, for example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X, “I mean, I get that SNL is typically a mess, but how do you watch that hearing and come out of it thinking Stefanik was the right target of satire?”
Radio host Rob Carson commented, “If there is no truth in satire, it’s not funny. This isn’t funny.”
&#8220;How to explain SNL siding with Ivy league (sic) neo-racists? Wondering what colleges their writers attended,&#8221; Fox News host Greg Gutfeld wrote.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘A New Low’: SNL Wrecked For Skit Mocking Elise Stefanik In College Anti-Semitism Hearing</a>

Cecily Strong speaks onstage at the Human Rights Campaign 2023 Greater New York Dinner at Marriott Marquis Times Square on February 04, 2023 in New York City.

Ex-SNL Star Pulled Out Of Widely-Panned Skit On Anti-Semitism Hearing: Report

Ex-SNL Star Cecily Strong Pulled Out Of Widely-Panned Skit On Anti-Semitism Hearing: Report 

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The ground is shifting rapidly beneath elite universities. Once-generous donors have rescinded almost a billion dollars in donations, and this may be only the beginning after the disastrous performance of several Ivy League presidents in a recent congressional hearing. The University of Pennsylvania’s president Liz Magill has already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to resign</a>, and Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who is facing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-harvard-president-claudine-gay-now-under-fire-for-alleged-plagiarism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charges of plagiarism</a>, is likely next. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has announced a full investigation of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn, which could expand to other schools. It seems that disgust with elite universities is felt almost universally, as everyone from billionaire hedge-funders like Bill Ackman to grandstanding politicians to Elon Musk pile on. 
But it is important to remember that the most significant problems with academia have existed for decades and permeate nearly all universities — elite or not — in the U.S. 
The recent extreme political zealotry of Ivy League campuses should be no surprise to anyone who has spent even a modicum of time at one of these schools, much less so if one has attended a class there. The only surprise in all of this is that it has taken so long for donors to notice there is something seriously, alarmingly amiss at modern American universities.
Even putting aside the current Israel-Palestine controversy, academia has over the past several decades undergone a profound transformation from a classical institution of learning to a laboratory for all manner of “woke” political activism and extremism. Far too many professors and college administrators see themselves as progressive frontline fighters in an ideological war, indoctrinating the young to transform society with radical but empty notions of Critical Race Theory and “DEI”; a victim-focused, infantilizing new MeToo feminism; a naïve Marxism; and an inexplicable hyper-focus on fringe issues like transsexuality. Sit in a modern college class where these sorts of topics are discussed and you will see they are often non-negotiable orthodoxies, not up for actual debate.
It is long past time for the ivory tower’s benefactors to awaken to the reality of what the modern university has become and the effects that experimental, faddish cultural theories floated in university classrooms and campus-wide policies have on society when widely disseminated. As students graduate and attempt to carry those theories into the real world, a kind of woke &#8220;Children of the Corn&#8221; dynamic occurs in which the adults reap what they thoughtlessly sowed to the youth, as those youth now make unreasonable and counterproductive demands on nearly every major societal institution.
Another problem with academia that is now being exposed is its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kill-dei-to-fight-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal hiring practices</a>. Nearly all college departments discriminate against whites, men, and heterosexuals in favor of those from “marginalized” groups. Ackman recently reported that Harvard President Claudine Gay was selected in a process in which white male candidates were automatically screened out of contention. This happens for nearly all faculty and staff positions now and has been going on for decades, but in recent years the situation has worsened considerably. 
Often those on hiring committees are told not to document these illegal practices in writing, but in their meetings and deliberations the hiring committee members openly discuss the need to choose a candidate from a marginalized group, and everyone on these committees understands they will bend over backward not to select a straight white man. Yes, straight white men are hired sometimes, but only in cases in which they are so far ahead of the other candidates as to make any other choice blatantly absurd. (And even in some of these absurd cases the lesser-qualified candidate is still chosen, as we see with Harvard’s president.) 
Another issue to underscore here is the political significance of dissertation preferences in faculty hiring. Most hiring committees — particularly in the liberal arts — select candidates based on how fashionable and politically correct their subjects of study are, and this is discerned from their dissertation and publications. Certain topics that are politically incorrect are automatically dismissed. So do not believe for one minute that politics is not a significant factor in hiring decisions. 
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The problems with academia extend way beyond the campus climate and hiring practices. For example, at most universities half the courses are taught by poorly-paid, part-time adjunct instructors or grad students, nearly all of whom make less money than restaurant waiters. Even at Ivy League schools like Harvard, an unacceptable percentage of courses are not taught by full-time top-tier professors. 
Even more confounding is the administrative bloat in nearly all universities. Over the last two decades the number of administrative positions in academia have exploded — including thousands of new DEI positions, many enjoying salaries in the six figures. Most tuition money, student loans, and donations pay for administrators and buildings, most of these largely superfluous and even counterproductive to real education. 
Shockingly, the deterioration and ideological zealotry of academia did not have a negative effect on its fundraising until now. The money rolled in without slowing, often from staunch capitalists, traditional families, religious individuals, and successful businesspeople who should have been more skeptical of an institution that increasingly generated a distaste for all of those very things.
It is often surprising how ill-informed (and uninterested) most donors are about the deterioration of the academy and the degree to which extreme orthodoxies have infected nearly every aspect of the university, from the classroom to the administration. Sure, there’s still a lot of legitimate learning taking place and some value to the college experience, but it is mixed with considerably more nonsense than it once was and permeated with an ideological agenda that, even when subtle, is almost palpable. And it’s often not very subtle.
If this recent controversy serves as an ideological wake-up call to the ivory tower and to those who pay its bills, that will be a good thing.
Kristen Lacefield is a former lecturer of English and film at TCU and holds a PhD in English literature and media studies from the University of North Carolina. She also produces videos and podcasts for YouTube as “Colonel Kurtz.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Daily Wire.

American Universities Have Finally Hit The Wall

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Sketch comedy show &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saturday-night-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Night Live</a>&#8221; was roundly mocked online this weekend for its cold open on Saturday which bizarrely targeted GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY) for her questions during a recent Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities, instead of the college leaders who were widely panned for their testimonies.
During the hearing, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill refused to acknowledge that calling for the genocide of Jews violates UPenn&#8217;s code of conduct on bullying and harassment. The testimony was so jarring, it culminated in Magill&#8217;s resignation on Saturday following wide backlash, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>.
The cold open, however, largely took aim at Rep. Stefanik, who was visibly stunned that the collegiate leaders seemed to run cover for students calling for genocide of Jews (video below). And folks online noticed.
&#8220;A new low for SNL,&#8221; Winston Marshall remarked. Conservative Emily Zanotti commented in response, &#8220;I mean, I get that SNL is typically a mess, but how do you watch that hearing and come out of it thinking Stefanik was the right target of satire?&#8221;
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I mean, I get that SNL is typically a mess, but how do you watch that hearing and come out of it thinking Stefanik was the right target of satire? <a href="https://t.co/g4jBOf1Nf4">https://t.co/g4jBOf1Nf4</a>
&mdash; Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) <a href="https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1733923276647268542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If there is no truth in satire, it&#8217;s not funny,&#8221; Rob Carson said. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t funny.&#8221;
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If there is no truth in satire, it&#39;s not funny. This isn&#39;t funny.
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&#8220;After three university presidents were universally panned for their testimony about anti-Semitism on campus, SNL decided that [Elise Stefanik] was the one who embarrassed herself,&#8221; Greg Price posted.
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X account Libs of TikTok commented, &#8220;[Elise Stefanik] handled the pro [genocide] University Presidents beautifully. So of course SNL mocks her. This is so difficult to watch. Isn’t SNL supposed to be funny?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EliseStefanik</a> handled the pro g*noc*de University Presidents beautifully. So of course SNL mocks her. This is so difficult to watch. Isn’t SNL supposed to be funny? <a href="https://t.co/dBEgTJ66tU">https://t.co/dBEgTJ66tU</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1733904253326967138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is the worst SNL opener in the history of the show,&#8221; X account Citizen Free Press said. &#8220;No one in the audience is laughing. This plays like a humiliation ritual.&#8221;
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This is the worst SNL opener in the history of the show. No one in the audience is laughing. This plays like a humiliation ritual. <a href="https://t.co/ZDTi8csubC">https://t.co/ZDTi8csubC</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1733887774611120199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Serious question: Is there anyone on either side that actually thinks this is funny?&#8221; noted another conservative politico. &#8220;I mean there was plenty of comedic material from that hearing, but SNL somehow managed to cover it in the cringiest way imaginable.&#8221;
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Serious question: Is there anyone on either side that actually thinks this is funny?
I mean there was plenty of comedic material from that hearing, but SNL somehow managed to cover it in the cringiest way imaginable. 
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Rabbi Shmuel Reichman called the skit the &#8220;most embarrassing&#8221; he&#8217;s ever seen.
&#8220;In a postmodern world, people think they get to choose their truth, and then rewrite everything in order to fit their narrative. So SNL had a moral choice: &#8230; admit the obvious: that the testimony of the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were universally considered to be one of the most disastrous congressional testimonies in U.S. history – testifying in front of Congress that they could not condemn calls for genocide against Jews unless they became &#8216;conduct,'&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Or stand by the cringeworthy stance of the radical left, that antisemitism is &#8216;cool and hip,&#8217; and Elise Stefanik was the one who made a fool of herself. Guess which one SNL chose?&#8221;
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This is the most embarrassing SNL skit I have EVER seen!
In a postmodern world, people think they get to choose their truth, and then rewrite everything in order to fit their narrative.
So SNL had a moral choice:
1- Admit the obvious: that the testimony of the presidents of… <a href="https://t.co/ygtAN1KgBD">pic.twitter.com/ygtAN1KgBD</a>
&mdash; Rabbi Shmuel Reichman (@ShmuelReichman) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShmuelReichman/status/1733963561058103799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill resigned on Saturday after facing mounting pressure to step down over disturbing remarks that she made this week while testifying before Congress.
&#8220;President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania,&#8221; said Scott L. Bok, Chairman, Board of Trustees. &#8220;She will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law.&#8221;
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Bok said that the school would be announcing new interim leadership for the university in the coming days and that Magill will stay on until a new interim president is appointed.
&#8220;It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution,&#8221; Magill said in a statement. &#8220;It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members to advance Penn&#8217;s vital missions.&#8221;
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Great news &#8211; UPenn President Liz Magill has resigned after allowing the once prestigious University to fall into a chaotic cesspool of Jew hatred this past year!
Let’s hope Harvard’s President Gay is next. <a href="https://t.co/tkOKOXGJ7z">pic.twitter.com/tkOKOXGJ7z</a>
&mdash; StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1733603175695839588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Magill generated a firestorm when she did not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> during her testimony before the Committee on Education &amp; the Workforce that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s code of conduct on bullying and harassment unless “the speech turns into conduct.”
“‘Conduct’ meaning committing the act of genocide?” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) fired back during the hearing. “The speech is not harassment? This is unacceptable.”
The powerful board of Penn’s Wharton business school had aggressively pushed for Magill to resign following her remarks.
The Wharton Board of Advisors “has been, and remains, deeply concerned about the dangerous and toxic culture on our campus that has been led by a select group of students and faculty and has been permitted by University leadership,” the Board said in a letter to Magill. “As confirmed in your congressional testimony yesterday, the leadership of the University does not share the values of our Board. Nor does it appear to understand the urgency to address the safety of our students on campus and the ongoing reputational damage to the University by the University’s policies and actions.”
“As a result of the University leadership’s stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our Board respectfully suggests to you and the Board of Trustees that the University requires new leadership with immediate effect,” the letter later added.
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The powerful board of Penn&#8217;s Wharton business school is calling on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill to resign over disturbing remarks that she made this week while testifying before Congress.
Magill did not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> during her testimony before the Committee on Education &amp; the Workforce that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the school&#8217;s code of conduct on bullying and harassment unless &#8220;the speech turns into conduct.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Conduct’ meaning committing the act of genocide?&#8221; Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) fired back. &#8220;The speech is not harassment? This is unacceptable.&#8221;
University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees held an “emergency meeting” on Thursday to address the continued fallout from Magill&#8217;s disastrous remarks.
The Wharton Board of Advisors &#8220;has been, and remains, deeply concerned about the dangerous and toxic culture on our campus that has been led by a select group of students and faculty and has been permitted by University leadership,&#8221; the Board said in a letter to Magill. &#8220;As confirmed in your congressional testimony yesterday, the leadership of the University does not share the values of our Board. Nor does it appear to understand the urgency to address the safety of our students on campus and the ongoing reputational damage to the University by the University’s policies and actions.&#8221;
&#8220;As a result of the University leadership&#8217;s stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our Board respectfully suggests to you and the Board of Trustees that the University requires new leadership with immediate effect,&#8221; the letter later added.
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NEWS 
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill is being asked to resign by the board of Penn&#39;s Wharton business school. <a href="https://t.co/ofrbxiSz19">https://t.co/ofrbxiSz19</a> <a href="https://t.co/wySprjgjnE">pic.twitter.com/wySprjgjnE</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1732941855338463738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-board-holds-emergency-meeting-after-gov-shapiro-blasts-penn-prezs-absolutely-shameful-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this week, &#8220;Leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test.&#8221;
&#8220;That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-loses-100-million-donation-over-anti-semitism-congressional-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn Loses $100 Million Donation Over Anti-Semitism Congressional Testimony</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s</a> Board of Trustees held an &#8220;emergency meeting&#8221; on Thursday — just one day after Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) blasted Penn President Elizabeth Magill over her &#8220;absolutely shameful&#8221; comments on Capitol Hill.
According to a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/business/penn-emergency-meeting-liz-magill/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Thursday by CNN, the board met virtually after being called to convene on Wednesday, just hours after Shapiro weighed in on Magill&#8217;s testimony regarding anti-Semitism on her campus.
Magill became the subject of intense scrutiny following her answers to questions from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) over whether or not students calling for the genocide of Jews were in violation of Penn&#8217;s code of conduct with regard to harassment and bullying. Magill said that such speech was not punished at Penn unless it &#8220;turns into conduct,&#8221; and argued that &#8220;context&#8221; was necessary.
Shapiro was not impressed by Magill&#8217;s comments, telling <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/calling-for-moral-clarity-on-antisemitism-pa-governor-slams-upenns-president/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%207th%202023&amp;utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%207th%202023+CID_2a82005a06180b3568bee21832314de1&amp;utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&amp;utm_term=Jewish%20Insiders%20Gabby%20Deutch%20in%20Philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Insider</a>, &#8220;The simple answer is yes, that violates our policy.&#8221;
&#8220;Leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test. That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.&#8221;
Shapiro went on to say that he had spoken to Magill in the weeks since the October 7 massacre — and that he had made specific suggestions and recommendations regarding steps the school could take to make sure that Jewish students felt safer.
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&#8220;They have seemingly failed every step of the way to take concrete action to make sure all students feel safe on campus. And then the testimony yesterday took it to the next level,&#8221; Shapiro added.
He called for the university&#8217;s board of trustees to convene, saying that he believed it was necessary to explore whether Magill accurately &#8220;represents the views and values of the University of Pennsylvania,&#8221; but adding that he was prepared to wait for the board to take action.

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The University of Pennsylvania has lost a donation of $100 million over the Ivy League&#8217;s handling of anti-Semitism on campus.
Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, is withdrawing a gift of limited partnership units with his company, the current value of which is estimated to be about $100 million.
The tipping point for Stevens, a Penn undergraduate alumnus, came on Tuesday, when Penn&#8217;s president testified to Congress the rise of anti-Semitic hate speech at their schools.
Penn President Elizabeth Magill avoided answering questions from lawmakers on whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated the university&#8217;s codes of conduct.
Magill said that, “if the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment,” adding that it is a “context-dependent decision.”
The presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) also testified. Both avoided answering the code of conduct question as well.
All three presidents have since backtracked after their congressional testimony prompted backlash, but it has not stopped the criticism.
Magill addressed the criticism in a video released Wednesday evening.
“In that moment, I was focused on our university’s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable,” Magill said in her video. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It’s evil — plain and simple.”
The Penn donor, Stevens, sent a letter to the school through his lawyers on Thursday rescinding his large gift.
In his letter, Stevens accused the school of violating the terms of their partnership agreement, including the anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.
&#8220;Its permissive approach to hate speech caling for violence against Jews and laissez faire attitude toward harassment and discrimination against Jewish students would violate any policies of rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion, including those of Stone Ridge,&#8221; Stevens wrote.
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Previously, Stevens also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/us/university-of-pennsylvania-donors-israel-hamas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrew</a> another $100 million gift to Penn&#8217;s business school, the Wharton School, reportedly because he believed the school was prioritizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) over academic excellence.
Steven redirected that previous gift to the University of Chicago.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have recently disrupted Penn&#8217;s campus.
Demonstrators have held huge protests and scrawled graffiti with slogans like &#8220;Free Palestine,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/06/news/upenn-students-create-dossier-of-antisemitic-events-on-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing</a> other students to plead with the administration to step in and prevent threats of violence.

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The presidents of three prestigious schools are backtracking after their congressional testimony this week on anti-Semitism prompted backlash, but it has not stopped the criticism.
The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania testified to Congress on Tuesday about the rise of anti-Semitic hate speech at their schools.
All three presidents avoided answering whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated the universities&#8217; codes of conduct.
&#8220;It can be, depending on the context,&#8221; Harvard&#8217;s president Claudine Gay said. She said such hate speech is &#8220;at odds with the values of Harvard&#8221; and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
&#8220;I have not heard calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus,&#8221; said MIT&#8217;s president, Sally Kornbluth.
University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s president Elizabeth Magill said, &#8220;If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment,&#8221; adding that it is a &#8220;context-dependent decision.&#8221;
Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management who is also a Harvard alumnus, called for the three presidents to &#8220;resign in disgrace.&#8221;
White House spokesman Andrew Bates <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/06/white-house-university-presidents-antisemitism-genocide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement Wednesday that “it’s unbelievable that this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) also <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1732426006311608512" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on the presidents to resign, saying that &#8220;their hypocrisy is stunning.&#8221;
Magill addressed the criticism in a video released Wednesday evening.
&#8220;In that moment, I was focused on our university&#8217;s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable,&#8221; Magill said in the video. &#8220;I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It&#8217;s evil — plain and simple.&#8221;
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Gay, Harvard&#8217;s president, put out an even stronger statement on Wednesday.
&#8220;There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account,&#8221; Gay said.
Kornbluth attempted to express her understanding to critics in an open letter released later on Tuesday after her testimony.
&#8220;After these past weeks, I know many of you are exhausted and hurting. We have to make room for each other, in our hearts and in our daily lives,&#8221; Kornbluth said. &#8220;We cannot and must not let events in the world drive us apart, or erode our respect for each other&#8217;s humanity, or thwart the great mission we&#8217;re here to pursue together.&#8221;
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However, many critics are not convinced by the presidents&#8217; attempts to come out more strongly against anti-Semitism.
Criticism of the schools and their leadership continued on Thursday from both Republican <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1732812648960381267" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and</a> Democrat lawmakers, journalists, social media influencers, and others.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said, &#8220;I do,&#8221; when asked whether the presidents should resign.
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&#8220;I think their statements were abhorrent,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They are failing in the worst way as college presidents &#8230; You cannot call for the genocide of the Jews, the genocide of any group of people and not say that that is harassment.&#8221;
&#8220;At Harvard, &#8216;fatphobia&#8217; constitutes violence. But &#8216;globalize the intifada&#8217; requires context,&#8221; journalist Bari Weiss posted Thursday on X.
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At Harvard, &quot;fatphobia&quot; constitutes violence. But &quot;globalize the intifada&quot; requires context.
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&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1732774984173474208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The abhorrent calls for the genocide of the Jewish community are reprehensible. It is unacceptable that presidents of esteemed institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Penn have not firmly condemned this hatred. Their failure to do so warrants their immediate dismissal from their positions,&#8221; Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) posted Thursday on X.
Many on social media also called on employers not to hire graduates of the schools.
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The abhorrent calls for the genocide of the Jewish community are reprehensible. It is unacceptable that presidents of esteemed institutions like <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MIT</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Penn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Penn</a> have not firmly condemned this hatred. Their failure to do so warrants their immediate dismissal from their…
&mdash; Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1732842335405211666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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‘Their Statements Were Abhorrent’: Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack

Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack

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