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Another One Bites the Dust: Cornell University President Martha Pollack Resigns in Surprise Email
Red State ^ | 05/09/2024 | Bob Hoge

Posted on 05/09/2024 8:32:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The pro-Hamas protests that have engulfed campuses across the nation have claimed another victim, Cornell University president Martha E. Pollack, who announced in a surprise email Thursday that she is stepping down in June after a seven-year reign.

The Ivy League school has been at the center of two controversies in recent times: its racist promotion of DEI at all costs and its failure to take effective action against antisemitism on its campus.


Background:

Ivy League School Offers Rock Climbing Class for Everyone But White Students

Cornell Professor Who Was 'Exhilarated' by Hamas's Attacks Is Now So Very Sorry (but Is He Really?)

Cornell Students Told to Avoid Kosher Dining Hall, Jewish Students Reportedly Afraid to Leave Their Rooms


Lovely stuff, isn’t it?

The blowback may have simply been too much for the embattled Pollack. In her letter to “Cornellians,” she wrote:

I understand that there will be lots of speculation about my decision, so let me be as clear as I can: This decision is mine and mine alone

After seven fruitful and gratifying years as Cornell’s president — and after a career in research and academia spanning five decades — I’m ready for a new chapter in my life.

It’s been a time of reckoning for some of these “elite” universities, as UPenn’s Liz Magill stepped down in December 2023 after disastrous testimony to Congress about the rampant antisemitism on her campus, while Harvard’s president Claudine Gay was forced to resign in January for the same reason in addition to allegations of plagiarism. Somehow MIT’s president Sally Kornbluth has managed to survive in her position despite faceplanting at that same congressional hearing. 

Now it's over for Pollack:

Cornell President Martha Pollack has been slow to condemn the rampant anti-Semitism on Cornell's campus and has failed to protect Jewish students from vile terrorist sympathizers.

Her resignation is no surprise as she lacks the courage to lead during these difficult times.


https://t.co/SrZ9TvbXbO— Rep. Claudia Tenney (@RepTenney) May 9, 2024

William Jacobson, Clinical Professor and Director of the Securities Law Clinic, was not sorry to see Pollack go:

My statement on resignation of @Cornell President: "Martha Pollack was the architect of Cornell's disastrous race-focused DEI initiative that balkanized the campus, and inevitably led to targeting of Jewish and pro-Israel students. While I wish her well in her personal life, it…— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) May 9, 2024

While I wish her well in her personal life, it is time for the Cornell Trustees to turn the ship around, to eliminate DEI programming as is taking place elsewhere, and to refocus the campus on the inherent  dignity of each individual without regard to group-identity.

Well said, Professor.

Jacobson has been a vocal critic of the toxic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts at Cornell, and said in December ’23 that the campus antisemitism is a result of the “racialization of education.”

Although Pollack only barely mentions all the controversies in her letter, it’s hard to imagine they didn’t play a huge role in her decision. Why would you walk from a cushy, well-paid position at the top of your field when you’re only 65 and could milk it for a while longer?

Many if not all of the Ivy League universities have been training their students in far-left progressivism for years, and now they’re paying the price as their reputations burn and many of their students are turning out to be full-out extremist radicals. 

They have only themselves to blame.



TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; campusagitaors; cornell; resignation; university
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To: SeekAndFind

High above Cayuga’s waters,
There’s an awful smell.
Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters;
We say it’s Cornell.


21 posted on 05/09/2024 9:44:00 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Poison Ivy League needs a thorough flush job

Thinking of Hercules at the Aegean Stables


22 posted on 05/09/2024 10:37:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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23 posted on 05/09/2024 10:42:50 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cornell went to the Devil back in the 1960’s and never recovered.


24 posted on 05/10/2024 2:30:54 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: AndyJackson

“I don’t wish these people well.”

I wish them well in finding good pieces of cardboard, and full Magic Markers, for the signs they’ll be holding up standing at the Interstate off ramps.


25 posted on 05/10/2024 4:00:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind
CORNELL UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT (2022 - 23)

Wonder if the stats at the above have anything to do with it...

26 posted on 05/10/2024 4:17:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This just in: Cornell University librarian discovers documentation in archives that lists original name of university as Cornhole University.


27 posted on 05/10/2024 6:48:34 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Paladin2

You can tell the senior girls at Cornell by the size of their calves...


28 posted on 05/10/2024 7:55:31 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers; All

The PBS Frontline documentary, “Crisis on Campus,” examines how university leaders, some of whom have faced congressional hearings, navigated the challenges of responding to heated rhetoric and division on their campuses and balancing free speech with the need to prevent harassment and discrimination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESNxDn6Efs


29 posted on 06/13/2024 12:32:37 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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