A day after M. Elizabeth Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, testified at a congressional hearing about campus antisemitism, the state’s Democratic governor said she had “failed” to “speak and act with moral clarity” and made an implicit call for her removal.
In her remarks, Magill did not directly answer pointed questions about whether students’ calling for the genocide of Jews violated Penn’s code of conduct. Gov. Josh Shapiro told reporters on Wednesday that Magill’s evasiveness was “absolutely shameful” and “unacceptable,” adding that Penn’s Board of Trustees “has a serious decision they need to make.”
(via Instapundit)
[Kudos to Shapiro again, but Penn’s board shouldn’t need the push after what happened in that hearing. Neither should the board at MIT or Harvard. Sally Kornbluth and Claudine Gay should join Magill on the unemployment line, at the very least for fumbling their testimony so badly that it actually worsened the schools’ political situation. — Ed]
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