Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who has been calling for Harvard University President Claudine Gay to resign following the president’s congressional testimony about antisemitism, took a victory lap on Tuesday after Gay stepped down.
Stefanik’s questioning of Gay and different college leaders through the Capitol Hill listening to went viral, sparking outrage about how the campus presidents had been dealing with the spike of antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas warfare.
Following the information broke that Gay resigned, Stefanik posted on social media, “TWO DOWN,” which is a nod to the 2 presidents who’ve stop since that congressional listening to: Gay and the previous chief of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill.
Stefanik, a Republican from New York, referred to as Gay’s resignation “long overdue.”
“Claudine Gay’s morally bankrupt answers to my questions made history as the most viewed Congressional testimony in the history of the U.S. Congress,” Stefanik posted. “Her solutions had been completely pathetic and devoid of the ethical management and educational integrity required of the President of @Harvard.
“This is just the beginning of what will be the greatest scandal of any college or university in history,” the congresswoman added. “Our robust Congressional investigation will continue to move forward to expose the rot in our most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions and deliver accountability to the American people.”
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted “good riddance” after Gay resigned.
“… better late than never,” he added.
Billionaire Bill Ackman has been pushing for weeks for Gay to resign. On Tuesday, he set his sights on MIT President Sally Kornbluth, the third college chief who testified in entrance of Congress.
“Et tu Sally?” Ackman posted.
Others had been upset about Gay resigning after going through intense strain from Republicans.
“Claudine Gay is bullied out of her job as the first black president of Harvard smh,” posted Jaime Sánchez, Jr., a political historian and a junior fellow within the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
“What happened to Claudine Gay is a playbook they will follow again and again,” posted journalist and political analyst Natasha S. Alford. “They will do whatever it takes to undermine, humiliate and unseat Black people in positions of power they don’t want there.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”