Pressure Mounts On Penn President To Resign

WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University’s president apologized as pressure mounted for the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign over their testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism. Critics from the White House on down say they failed to demonstrate that they would stand up to antisemitism on campus. Now, Harvard President Claudine Gay says she failed to properly denounce threats of violence against Jewish students. Meanwhile, lawyers for a major donor to Penn are threatening to withdraw a $100 million gift unless Penn President Liz Magill is replaced. The university presidents’ congressional testimony has drawn intense national backlash, as did a similar response from the president of MIT.