As you probably remember, UPenn President Liz Magill resigned from her job on Dec. 9, just days after her disastrous congressional testimony. Magill was one of three university presidents who struggled to answer some loaded but fairly simple questions about the treatment of Jewish students on campus. This came after the school had a number of anti-Semitic incidents and threats which wound up resulting in the FBI being called in to investigate.
The pressure that helped push Magill out the door came in part from a series of big-money donors who had contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to the school. They had first been activated when Magill held a writing festival on campus which featured some notable anti-Semites including Roger Waters.
So here we are nearly three months later and I’m not sure the state of the campus has improved much. From today’s…
