(The Center Square) – University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned Saturday, just days after her testimony at a Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., about antisemitism on campus and the university’s timid response was widely criticized.
“It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution. It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members to advance Penn’s vital missions,” Magill said in a Saturday statement.
She is expected to remain on staff at the university as a faculty member at Penn Carey Law, according to an email sent Saturday afternoon to the campus community.
Magill and other university campus presidents have faced a growing wave of criticism after allowing campus protesters to call for the genocide of Jews in response to the ongoing Israeli war against the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza.
At Wednesday’s hearing, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y, asked the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University whether calling for the genocide of Jews on their campuses violates their universities’ bullying and harassment policies.
“If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment,” Magill replied when asked specifically.
More from the back and forth between Magill and Stefanik, as The Center Square previously reported:
Stefanick repeats: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews constitute bullying or harassment?”
“If it is directed and severe and pervasive, it is harassment,” Magill replied.
“So the answer is yes,” Stefanik followed up.
“It is a context-dependent decision,” Magill replied.
“It’s a context-dependent decision, that’s your testimony today, calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context? That is not bullying or harassment? This is the easiest question to answer. ‘Yes,’ Ms. Magill.”
“If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment,” she replied.
“Conduct, meaning committing the act of genocide? Speech is not harassment? I’m going to give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer,” Stefanik said and repeated her question.
Magill, who smiled throughout her answers, said, “It can be harassment.”
Later Wednesday, Penn posted a video of Magill attempting to clarify her remarks.
“In that moment, I was focused on our university’s long-standing policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution which say that speech alone is not punishable,” she said. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call of genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate … In my view, it would be harassment or intimidation.”
After Magill’s resignation, Penn Board of Trustees Chair Scott L. Bok also resigned.
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Simple solution, demand equal representation of MEN in all teaching and administration positions, preferably with military backgrounds in how to lead, self-govern, and achieve. We never has these kind of problems in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, when our educational institutions had a fair representation of protective enlightened testosterone laced men to stand between the light of truth and darkness of socialist deceptions. No mass school shootings or student gender or religious molestations either. What we suffer from is too many social sob sistering socially abused women getting promoted on citizen paid scholarships that now need to be replaced by people capable of working their own way through college on earned brains, shaped by trial and error achievement, not unearned government scholarships based on political party or gender discrimination against male strength. When the corrupted social rebels hit the streets and clog our university class rooms with sit downs, there is no strength other than a defunded, demoralized police force, or corrupted educational socialist rebelling leadership too timid to or just plain refuses to, toss them out on their ear, and throw them out of the college or university they enrolled in, forfeiting the money paid to educate them that really was earned by, and belongs to, the American taxpayer in the first place.
Normally losing one’s faculties means you have lost your mind. In this case losing the faculties is gaining your mind back from total secular mind manipulating social indoctrination, back to free thinking of the individual truths that Collectively set men free,,,,(The Truths that set men free,,,A Christian Saying by the Way)
SHE may have “resigned’, but that’s ONLY From her spot as president. SHE STILL SERVES on their board of directors, because her Tenure prevents her being fired.
“Right ON-BRO.!
Isuer:
A Little girl and boy were Naket and comparing each other when he Noticed the Girl WasBleeding, The little boy said,” No Wonder Your Bleeding, Somebodys Cut Your Whats it off.”
University of Penn. Resigned immeditally Afterwards, but not Black, Female,democrat, Harvard President.
Because she be blak dawg.. You can’t diss the sista.
To Ituser;
HARVARD IS ” POLITICALLY CORRECT.”
CORRECTION—All Of The UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS SHOWN WERE ( WOMEN, ) DIDN’T ANY ( WHITE MALE-EDUCATORS) QUALIFY to be UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS.?
All of the University Presidents shown were WOMEN, Didn’t any ( WHITE MALlE-Educato. C qualify to be University Presidents.?
White men were probably told “For Inclusivity/diversity sake, DON’T bother applying”.
” New Book by Heather MACDonald, ” WHEN RACE Trumps MERIT” tells it all regarding Harvard University especially, but applies to all public education in America.
Decisions by 1945 Allied command source of all this confusion. All the students are just that. Students there for higher learning and experience.
THESE DAYS< WHAT higher learning??
ALL STUDENTS ARE LIKE ” BLANK SLATES, they have no political opinions, YA, RIGHT,!
Professors are 90% democrat, Socialist, /Communist,/ TEACHERS UNION and the parents have some sway over their Offsprings/STUDENTS.
” IT IS NOT MUCH GOOD BEING WISE AMONG FOOLS AND SANE AMONG LUNATICS.”
ROBERT GREEN.
you can see the evil in this womans eyes.
she gives me the creeps.
” If A DISTRICT ATTORNEY WANTED, A GRAND JURY WOULD INDICT A HAM SANDWICH.”
SOL WACHTLER
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