Posted on 12/07/2023 1:21:36 PM PST by Rummyfan
Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology basically stuck to giving name, rank, and serial number. They repeated carefully rehearsed phrases obviously pre-cleared by lawyers and comms teams.
Gay particularly kept restating the same phrases, not even bothering to find different variations. One formulation she clung on to, as though it were a talisman that would save her from the bad men and women that had her pinned on the stand, was, “We are deeply committed to free expression, but not when it violates our policies against bullying, and intimidation, and harassment. Then we have strong disciplinary processes in place.”
Gay invoked “processes” in other contexts, too, despite diminishing returns that, by the end of the ordeal, had turned the term into an object of derision.
“I didn’t ask about your processes,” an obviously exasperated Texas Rep. Nathaniel Moran spat out at one point. “I am asking for action. How many students have been disciplined? How many have been held to account?”
Crickets.
On questions about expelling foreign students, who have obviously been a substantial part of the anti-Jewish demonstrations, Gay’s magic words were, “Our international students are an enormous source of pride for Harvard and part of our strength as an institution. But we hold those students accountable to the same set of disciplinary processes that we hold all of our students accountable to.” This was repeated again and again, only demonstrating that someone had sat with her and worked out messaging.
“Antisemitism has no place at Harvard” was another incantation Gay hurled over and over, despite the enormous evidence showing Jewish students being harassed at Harvard and the school’s long and shameful history of Jew hatred.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Pricey rot.
Skools like students who pay their own way completely by themselves.
And the Middle Eastern or Red Chinese government that sends those kiddies to their Skools would stop sending them if Universities started being pro-American or pro-Israel.
Never before has a nation appointed and elected so many bizarre, old women to positions of power and influence. Doubtful that the American nation will survive the rot or that Americans will enjoy their freedom and liberties for much longer.
All three should be replaced with people who have a moral compass….and a stiff spine.
These institutions have been bereft of morals for a century but that was all well and good when they promoted the Leftist agenda - until of course they got to the part of the Leftist agenda that involves killing other Leftists.
Her explanations sound gay.
I think we should tax endowments.
Donors, alumni and otherwise, need to stop funding these places. We are worse off for having people be “educated” at these places for far more reasons than just this issue...this is just the latest showing of how far downhill “Big Education” has gone.
Ugly, lesbian Nazis.
Pennsy Gov calls for resignation of U of Penn president
Accusations of college antisemitism went from bad to worse with one House hearing
yahoonews.com, Lexi Lonas, Thu, December 7, 2023
College leaders seeking to fend off accusations of failing to protect their students from rising antisemitism have instead shot themselves in the foot.
For weeks the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were drowning in criticism of not taking the problem seriously enough after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and a House hearing this week put them further into treacherous water.
The opportunity for the presidents to make the public feel confident in their steps has turned into calls for their resignation after all three tried to sidestep a question on if a call for the genocide of Jewish people would be considered harassment.
That blow came towards the end of the four-hour House Education Committee hearing, when Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) got an opportunity to question all three presidents for the sixth time, after other Republicans yielded her their time.
Harvard President Claudine Gay said such a genocidal call could violate the school’s policies “depending on the context.” Sally Kornbluth, the head of MIT, said the calls would need to be “pervasive” and would warrant an investigation.
Penn board of trustees convenes after school president’s House comments
Penn President Liz Magill got into a longer back-and-forth with Stefanik on the issue, with it ultimately coming to a head when Magill testified: “If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.”
“Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide?” Stefanik retorted.
The pushback was swift and strong, with the White House calling it “unbelievable that this needs to be said: Calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country.”
On Thursday, Education Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) announced “a formal investigation into the learning environments at Harvard, UPenn, and MIT and their policies and disciplinary procedures.”
“The testimony we received earlier this week from Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth about the responses of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT to the rampant antisemitism displayed on their campuses by students and faculty was absolutely unacceptable,” Foxx said.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) called on Penn’s board of directors to convene “soon” to have a “serious discussion” on if Magill’s comments represent the “values” of the university.
“That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,” Shapiro said. “Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.”
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Repeal the 19th Amendment. We can't protect these institutions but we can protect the nation.
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