Harvard Under Heightened Pressure After Penn Leaders Ousted (2)

“One down. Two to go.”

The ominous statement from Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from upstate New York, came moments after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill announced her resignation on Saturday.

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It had been just days since Stefanik had confronted the leaders of Penn, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, three of the most prominent women in academia, on whether calling for the genocide of Jews is against school policy — eliciting narrow legal responses that were slammed by the White House, Democratic and Republican ...