Posted on 12/07/2023 11:56:14 AM PST by nickcarraway
The University of Pennsylvania’s motto comes from a quote from Horace, Leges Sine Moribus Vanae — “Laws without morals are in vain.”
But it is a lack of morals, of a willingness to stand up to antisemitism, that has created a “climate of fear” across campus.
Demonstrations headed by “Penn Students Against the Occupation,” recognized as an official club by the university, have left students at the Philadelphia-based Ivy League school worried about whether it is a safe environment for learning. Incidents on campus have made it a flashpoint in the debate over how far protests can go.
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They are too stupid to see the irony.......................
UPenn is most famous for its Business school, Wharton, which doesn’t get too involved in wokeness, except where it suits business schemes. The kids there are mostly just focused on getting a job in some deep-state finance firm like JP Morgan. The Engineering department is similar
The other departments within UPenn are marxist propagandists where woke leftism thrives.
The Annenberg School for Communication is as Neo-Marxist as they come, as is the School of Education.
They celebrate Nazi goals, methods and accomplishments. So when they call others “Nazis”, is it meant as praise or curse? I suppose it depends on the target audience.
Now antisemitism is encouraged openly.
UPenn started received millions from Communist China in donations right
after Penn established The Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in DC.
U of Penn could not explain the sudden millions in Chinese donations.
As investigations threatened, PBS-TV reported UPenn up and gave....unannounced and unasked.....some $100 million dollars to local schools.
The Biden Center was also being investigated for unexplained Chinese donations.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is zeroing in on the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., as part of the panel’s investigation into classified documents discovered in Biden’s former office at the Center.
Comer laid out the requests in a letter to U of Penn
President and is specifically interested in learning:
<><>who had access to the Penn Biden Center,
<><>a visitors’ log of those who met with Biden at the think tank,
<><>the presence of required security measures WRT to legally viewing US classified documents
<><>who at the UPenn has security clearance
<><>whether Chinese donations to the Biden Center were disguised payments for classified info.
Mumble...Yata-Yata-Yata...Mumble.
When is somebody going to be expelled or even criticized by name?
I’ll bet the perpetrators are muzzoids.
More likely AntiFa types
It’s past time the question is asked: How did these kids get this way? You can bet they were not that way on their first day in college.
The Chinese government is heavily involved at UPenn with a cultural center, the Biden thingy, and who knows what else. My question is how much influence do they have on curriculum, personnel matters such as employment, and activities?? How many Chinese faculty are on the payroll, how many Chinese students in attendance???
Older Jewish (and Jewish friendly) Democrats take note (if there are any here). The future of your party.
axios.com
Dan Primack
Dec 7, 2023
U Penn alum withdraws $100 million donation
over Prez Magill’s response to antisemitism
pic-—U of Penn President Liz Magill testifying in front of Congress.
Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
A U of Penn donor is withdrawing a gift worth around $100 million to protest the school’s response to antisemitism on campus. The final straw for alum Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, was Tuesday’s widely criticized congressional testimony by Penn president Liz Magill.
The gift from Stevens, a Penn undergrad alum, was given in December 2017 to help establish a center for innovation in finance. It was in the form of limited partnership units in Stone Ridge, with the current value estimated at around $100 million.
Stevens, in a letter from his lawyers to Penn, alleges that the school has violated the terms of the limited partnership agreement, including its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.
Referring to Penn, Stevens writes: “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.”
Backstory: This isn’t the first time that Stevens has used his pocketbook to express disagreement with Penn policies. Earlier, he redirected a different $100 million gift from Penn’s business school to the University of Chicago.
According to the New York Times, Stevens “changed his mind because he thought the school was prioritizing D.E.I. over enhancing the business school’s academic excellence.”
The letter concludes by offering to discuss the matter further. But a source close to the situation tells Axios that the current intention is to withdraw the gift.
axios.com
Dan Primack
Dec 7, 2023
U Penn alum withdraws $100 million donation
over Prez Magill’s response to antisemitism
pic-—U of Penn President Liz Magill testifying in front of Congress.
Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
A U of Penn donor is withdrawing a gift worth around $100 million to protest the school’s response to antisemitism on campus. The final straw for alum Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, was Tuesday’s widely criticized congressional testimony by Penn president Liz Magill.
The gift from Stevens, a Penn undergrad alum, was given in December 2017 to help establish a center for innovation in finance. It was in the form of limited partnership units in Stone Ridge, with the current value estimated at around $100 million.
Stevens, in a letter from his lawyers to Penn, alleges that the school has violated the terms of the limited partnership agreement, including its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.
Referring to Penn, Stevens writes: “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.”
Backstory: This isn’t the first time that Stevens has used his pocketbook to express disagreement with Penn policies. Earlier, he redirected a different $100 million gift from Penn’s business school to the University of Chicago.
According to the New York Times, Stevens “changed his mind because he thought the school was prioritizing D.E.I. over enhancing the business school’s academic excellence.”
The letter concludes by offering to discuss the matter further. But a source close to the situation tells Axios that the current intention is to withdraw the gift.
UPenn board of trustees holds emergency meeting amid calls for president to resign over antisemitism hearing
Too bad cartoonist Al Capp is no longer around to mock today’s young idiots as he did with the 1966 Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E.).
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