The pro-Hamas protests that have engulfed campuses across the nation have claimed another victim, Cornell University president Martha E. Pollack, who announced in a surprise email Thursday that she is stepping down in June after a seven-year reign.
The Ivy League school has been at the center of two controversies in recent times: its racist promotion of DEI at all costs and its failure to take effective action against antisemitism on its campus.
Background:
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Lovely stuff, isn’t it?
The blowback may have simply been too much for the embattled Pollack. In her letter to “Cornellians,” she wrote:
I understand…
