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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
UPenn reportedly asking president Liz Magill to step down Friday
2023-12-09
[NYPOST] The University of Pennsylvania is expected to ask its president, Liz Magill, to resign Friday over growing outrage at her failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people — a move celebrated by billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who said she would be "one down."
Reportedly and is expected to — no evidence on the internet that anything was done as of 9:45 p.m. ET Friday evening. Let’s look for something in Saturday’s news, dear Reader.
The Ivy League school’s board of trustees held an emergency meeting Thursday to deal with the fallout from Magill’s disastrous congressional testimony Tuesday, which has already driven a Wall Street titan to try to claw back a $100 million donation and led to calls for her ouster.

Board chairman Scott Bok is expected to talk to Magill about resigning on Friday, a source familiar with the proceedings told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
"One down," wrote Ackman, one of the most outspoken critics of colleges failing to stop rising antisemitism.

"There is hope for UPenn," he wrote while sharing the CNN report.
Related:
Liz Magill: 2023-12-07 Harvard President Claudine Gay says her antisemitism comments were misunderstood
Liz Magill: 2023-10-17 Jon Huntsman Jr. says family to stop donations to UPenn over 'silence' on Hamas attack, others follow
Related:
Bill Ackman: 2023-12-07 Harvard President Claudine Gay says her antisemitism comments were misunderstood
Bill Ackman: 2023-12-06 Billionaire Harvard fund manager sez Harvard president Claudine Gay must GO ! (and Ivy heads testify to Congress)
Bill Ackman: 2023-11-20 Hamas is Stronger Than The Left
Posted by:Fred

#18  "Context, Bitches! Why am I being held to my actual words and policies??"
Posted by: Frank G   2023-12-09 20:31  

#17  The extreme bitterness going on in some quarters over this is indeed a holiday treat.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-09 19:58  

#16  Live by DEI, die by DEI
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-09 19:10  

#15  Scott Bok, chairman of the university’s board of trustees, shared a letter with the UPenn community Saturday afternoon, announcing that Magill voluntarily handed in her resignation. She will retain her position as a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law.

“It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution,” Magill said. “It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members to advance Penn’s vital missions.”

Following the announcement, Bok also tendered his immediate resignation.

“Today, following the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania’s President and related Board of Trustee meetings, I submitted my resignation as Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, effective immediately,” Bok said in a statement. “While I was asked to remain in that role for the remainder of my term in order to help with the presidential transition, I concluded that, for me, now was the right time to depart.”

Both departures come after a bipartisan group of 74 congressmen urged Magill, Harvard University president Claudine Gay, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth to step down in light of their contentious testimonies on Capitol Hill earlier this week.

When asked to directly answer whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate university policy, Magill said “it is a context-dependent decision” for UPenn. “If the speech becomes conduct. It can be harassment, yes,” she added.
Posted by: Frank G   2023-12-09 19:00  

#14  From Frank G’s link:

Announcement from Chair of Board of Trustees: “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.”


Peter Principle.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-09 18:03  

#13  Buh bye Liz
Posted by: Frank G   2023-12-09 17:41  

#12  Voluntary my ass...
Posted by: badanov   2023-12-09 17:35  

#11  ...Liz bailed about an hour ago:



Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-12-09 17:29  

#10  Hmmm: UPenn Trustees Call 'Emergency Meeting' Tomorrow over Magill

*Toast*
Posted by: Frank G   2023-12-09 14:42  

#9  They're not outraged about her statements. They're outraged about the results.

UPenn Loses a $100 Million Donation Over Its President's Kill All the Jews Trip-Up
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-12-09 13:10  

#8  Still nothing on the internet about her actually leaving — I just checked.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-09 11:25  

#7  Getting rid of this clueless and amoral harpy would be a good start. But there is plenty of rot at Penn and Harvard.

Agreed - if the goal is to restore normalcy, it's gonna take thousands of firings, not just the occasional figurehead.
Posted by: Raj   2023-12-09 10:45  

#6  Liz will step down right after Trudeau and Maduro pack it in. Leftists never step down. They have no conscience and no shame.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-12-09 10:36  

#5  no gov't support except for trade schools.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-09 08:55  

#4  Getting rid of this clueless and amoral harpy would be a good start. But there is plenty of rot at Penn and Harvard.

The old-fashioned word salads just don't work when there is a real moral crisis.
Posted by: Tom   2023-12-09 06:41  

#3  /\ Thanks for the link to Ringside and "Foreign policy realism, unrealism, and surrealism."

This Washington Post obituary of Henry Kissinger includes the following passage:

In his comprehensive biography of Dr. Kissinger, journalist Walter Isaacson came to the conclusion that he “had an instinctive feel for power and for creating a new global balance that could help America cope with its withdrawal syndrome after Vietnam. But it was not matched by a similar feel for the strength to be derived from the openness of America’s democratic system or for the moral values that are the true source of its global influence.”

(Emphasis added)

Could his systematic selling of American industry out to China represent an example ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-09 06:15  

#2  How to Translate Ivy League "Nuance" in One Easy Picture
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-09 05:24  

#1  Who before was regent at u of Virginia and before Dean of Law School at Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019.
Yes the same Stanford Law School with the FTX scandal parents teaching in it.

National Inquiring minds want to know the spider web
Posted by: 3dc   2023-12-09 01:33  

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