{"id":30546,"date":"2023-12-11T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30546"},"modified":"2023-12-11T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:16:20","slug":"horrifying-precedent-penn-president-resigns-amid-right-wing-campus-speech-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/11\/horrifying-precedent-penn-president-resigns-amid-right-wing-campus-speech-uproar\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Horrifying Precedent’: Penn President Resigns Amid Right-Wing Campus Speech Uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She was coerced into resigning for defending her students\u2019 right to political free speech,” said one critic.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 10, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professors at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday were joined by rights advocates in condemning the attacks that forced university president Liz Magill to resign days after she testified before the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magill had angered lawmakers from both parties by refusing to say students should be punished for hypothetically “calling for the genocide of Jews.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magill announced her resignation Saturday after the university lost<\/a> a $100 million donation from hedge fund manager Ross Stevens, a Penn alum, due to last Tuesday’s hearing<\/a> at the House Education and Workforce Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I'm going to write about this later, but this is a dark, dark day or pretty much the only American institution that is committed to speech for speech's sake.

And it validates every single outgroup critique of donor presence in university communities.

Yuck. https:\/\/t.co\/Vjgi39Es9Q<\/a><\/p>— Lee Kovarsky (@lee_kovarsky) December 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>