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UPenn President Liz Magill resigns after disastrous antisemitism testimony
NY Post ^ | 12/09/2023 | Mary Kay Linge

Posted on 12/09/2023 2:11:10 PM PST by DFG

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill – under increasing pressure from both donors and the White House after her disastrous testimony before Congress this week on the school’s failure to protect Jewish students – “voluntarily” resigned her post Saturday, the school announced.

“I write to share that President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania. She will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law. “On behalf of the entire Penn community, I want to thank President Magill for her service to the University as President and wish her well.

“We will be in touch in the coming days to share plans for interim leadership of Penn. President Magill has agreed to stay on until an interim president is appointed.

“President Magill shared the following statement, which I include here: ‘It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution. It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members to advance Penn’s vital missions.’”

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt; Gaza; Hamas; Iran; Israel; Jordon; Lebanon; Syria; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: academia; chat; education; egypt; gaza; hamas; iran; israel; jordan; lebanon; magill; pennsylvania; resigned; sinai; syria; upenn; waronterror
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To: DFG

is genocide a bad thing?

should not be a hard question

magill is the poster child for overeducated


81 posted on 12/09/2023 8:22:04 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: apostoli

Thanks for posting that video. Modern Day Holy War is a great song pointing out how much evil we, as a nation, have already accepted. It’s a great anthem.


82 posted on 12/09/2023 8:22:48 PM PST by Betty Jane
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To: DFG

Good riddance racist.


83 posted on 12/09/2023 8:24:43 PM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: DFG

Now go F’ yourself Liz.


84 posted on 12/09/2023 8:27:31 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: DFG

One overpaid, incompetent douchebag gone. Two to go, and then the rest of their counterpart maggots who are rotting out American values and education.

Calling the Orkin Man. You are wanted on college campuses all over America, and you are going to need more cesspool cleaner.


85 posted on 12/09/2023 9:11:22 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: DFG

the ACTUAL disaster was the withdrawal of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of donation pledges by wealthy alumni ...


86 posted on 12/09/2023 9:28:55 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: All

The chair of the University of UPenn’s Board of Trustees, Scott Bok, resigned on Saturday, after man-splaining controversial comments (now resigned) UPenn President Liz Magill made at a House hearing on antisemitism this week.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4352000-upenn-board-of-trustees-chair-resigns-following-university-presidents-departure/

Bok described Magill’s comments as “a very unfortunate misstep… after five hours of aggressive questioning before a Congressional committee.”

He stood up for her in the message, calling her “a very good person and a talented leader who was beloved by her team”

“Worn down by months of relentless external attacks, she was not herself last Tuesday,” he said. “Over prepared and over lawyered given the hostile forum and high stakes, she provided a legalistic answer to a moral question, and that was wrong.”

“It made for a dreadful 30-second sound bite in what was more than five hours of testimony,” he added.


87 posted on 12/10/2023 4:36:57 AM PST by Texan4Life
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To: DFG

The hierarchy at many of these “famous” universities are now trembling in fear. Their greatest fear has always been not so much all the things they educate against, but that the alumni, major donors, legislators, etc. would start paying attention to what’s really happening and what they are really really promoting, to say nothing about what they are doing with the $Billions rolling into their coffers.


88 posted on 12/10/2023 4:44:19 AM PST by Rlsau1
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To: DFG

Fence sitting begets job loss.


89 posted on 12/10/2023 5:41:38 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: DFG

Her name was McGill and she called herself Lil.

Bye, bye, Lil👍


90 posted on 12/10/2023 5:43:45 AM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini ("Let Us Never Forget What They Have Done")
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To: DFG
John Nolte refers to the now resigned UPenn president and the other two presidents as "the Eva Brauns of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania."

Nolte also notes that Liz Magill will still remain at UPenn as a tenured faculty member.

91 posted on 12/10/2023 11:30:22 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: DFG

Wiped that condescending smile right off her snotty Democrat mug.


92 posted on 12/10/2023 3:53:18 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Paladin2
Didn’t UPenn hire that hockey stick prevaricator Mikey Mann for the State Penn a few years ago?

University of Pennsylvania (UPenn, private, Ivy) did hire him in 2022 as director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media. Earlier in the 2000s he had been director of the Earth System Science Center at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State, public).

They are two different universities, many miles apart, founded over a century apart).

93 posted on 12/10/2023 4:05:29 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
None of those statements is an apology for creating a hostile, anti-Semitic environment on campus

Good riddance. She is a disgrace. Women swimmers didn't do too well under her administration, either.


94 posted on 12/10/2023 4:08:43 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Magill is a quintessential example of the liberal, college educated, upper class, female Democrat voter block. They’re immoral, selfish, conceited, neurotic or worse and stupid. Violent revolutionaries thrill them.

Here she is with her mentor, keeping her head lower than the queen:


95 posted on 12/10/2023 4:14:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: DFG

What a racist idiot. And she thought that was okay to say????


96 posted on 12/10/2023 4:16:41 PM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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