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‘One down’: UPenn reportedly asking president Liz Magill to step down Friday over outrage at antisemitism testimony
New York Post ^ | 12/8/23 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 12/08/2023 12:32:57 PM PST by cotton1706

The University of Pennsylvania is expected to ask its president, Liz Magill, to resign Friday over growing outrage at her failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people — a move celebrated by billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who said she would be “one down.”

The Ivy League school’s board of trustees held an emergency meeting Thursday to deal with the fallout from Magill’s disastrous congressional testimony Tuesday, which has already driven a Wall Street titan to try to claw back a $100 million donation and led to calls for her ouster.

Board chairman Scott Bok is expected to talk to Magill about resigning on Friday, a source familiar with the proceedings told CNN.

“One down,” wrote Ackman, one of the most outspoken critics of colleges failing to stop rising antisemitism.

“There is hope for UPenn,” he wrote while sharing the CNN report.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academia; domesticenemies; education; magill; pennsylvania; upenn
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1 posted on 12/08/2023 12:32:57 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Obvious transphobia.


2 posted on 12/08/2023 12:35:28 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: cotton1706

Way back, gazillions of years ago, university presidents were folks of accomplishment and intellect.

Now? You wouldn’t hire any of these spineless losers to run a Starbucks.


3 posted on 12/08/2023 12:37:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: cotton1706

It’s way deeper in that snake pit than the top layer of anti-semite snakes. These snakes are lower in the pit than Epsteins outhouse.


4 posted on 12/08/2023 12:38:34 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: cotton1706

The Karenocracy has thousands of apparatchiks waiting to take the job when called.


5 posted on 12/08/2023 12:38:36 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Da Coyote

Academia itself has gone “woke” - fed by massive debt and administrative bloat.

UPenn is probably the most “woke” Ivy after Columbia.


6 posted on 12/08/2023 12:38:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: cotton1706

Between the Jerry Sandusky scandal and this there’s no hope for UPenn, they just plain suck.


7 posted on 12/08/2023 12:39:30 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: cotton1706

No one was outraged over the years of hatred and/or discrimination directed against white gentiles, though.


8 posted on 12/08/2023 12:41:23 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Sandusky scandal was Penn State, not U of Penn.


9 posted on 12/08/2023 12:41:33 PM PST by Salvey
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To: cotton1706

She’s sorry though

Video here
UPenn president issues video following Congressional antisemitism hearings
https://rumble.com/v4050s8-upenn-president-issues-video-following-congressional-antisemitism-hearings.html


10 posted on 12/08/2023 12:42:01 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Clutch Martin

Sandusky was at Penn State, not U of Penn.


11 posted on 12/08/2023 12:42:28 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: cotton1706

A pasty gets fired for saying out loud what they all think.


12 posted on 12/08/2023 12:43:16 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Clutch Martin

Jerry Sandusky was at Penn State, a public state university. UPenn is a private university and part of the “Ivy League”.


13 posted on 12/08/2023 12:43:26 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: cotton1706

A request reflecting obvious and blatant misogyny.


14 posted on 12/08/2023 12:46:08 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: cotton1706

Meanwhile, a Wall Street tycoon on Thursday vowed to claw back a $100 million donation to the university if it doesn’t boot Magill.

Ross Stevens, the boss of Stone Ridge Asset Management, joined a growing chorus of high-powered donors and outraged elected officials who are calling for Magill’s head.

The hedge fund titan said he has “clear grounds” to rescind his donation and that law firm Davis Polk has sent the school a letter saying as much.


When you give a gift, you give up any control.

Any validity to the above?


15 posted on 12/08/2023 12:47:51 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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The U of Pennsylvania is expected to ask its president, Liz Magill, to resign Friday
over growing outrage at her failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people —


About time.......what took so long?


16 posted on 12/08/2023 12:48:31 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: Maine Mariner
Penn State also has that professor that forced his dog to have sex with him to de-stress and wind down after a hard day teaching. In public parks.

Our intellectual superiors have a cult like brotherhood. Dog Fu#$ers every last one.

17 posted on 12/08/2023 12:49:15 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: cotton1706

When you look at all the things Penn has done; This is the reason you fire her? The trans swimmer who wins medals racing girls and showers in the same room? The Chinese paying Biden’s salary for his document library? I mean wouldn’t you just suppose that antisemitism would be par for the coarse?

And remember the guy who gives them $100 million did not have any problem with the other stuff. Just this one.


18 posted on 12/08/2023 12:49:36 PM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: cotton1706
I'm sure U Penn teaches anti-white racism in classrooms. That "whiteness" and "white supremecy" is the cause of all the worlds' ills, and that we need to "end whiteness" (i.e., white genocide).

Why no outrage about that? Not from Congress, not from university trustees, not from billionaire donors.

19 posted on 12/08/2023 12:49:45 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: PGR88

Jerry Springer would make a better president at any Ivy League than what is paraded as educated.


20 posted on 12/08/2023 12:51:29 PM PST by healy61 (.)
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