Liz Magill resigned from the presidency at the University of Pennsylvania following her testimony on the rising trend of anti-Semitism in college. During a representative's inquiry about whether statements advocating for genocide against Jews constituted bullying and harassment, Magill's response, it was, suggesting it was directed and pervasive, which put her under fire. Subsequently, the Chairman of the Board Trustees also resigned, citing Magill's overly legalistic approach to moral questions and her failure to provide explicit answers during the testimony and her behavior was over-lawyered and over-prepared, making her position untenable. However, he defended her, asserting that she showed not the slightest anti-Semitism. In the aftermath of the back-to-back resignations, donors ceased funding, criticizing she didn’t go far enough to condemn the anti-Semitism incident. Magill agreed to remain tenured until a new interim replacement was found.
*Vocabularies; anti-Semitism, Semitic, genocide, constitute, pervasive, be/come under fire, back to back, tenured, interim, explicit, tenable, not the slightest, lawyer, legalistic
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Liz Magill resigned from the presidency at the University of Pennsylvania following her testimony on the rising trend of anti-Semitism in college. During a representative's inquiry about whether statements advocating for genocide against Jews constituted bullying and harassment, Magill's response, it was, suggesting it was directed and pervasive, which put her under fire. Subsequently, the Chairman of the Board Trustees also resigned, citing Magill's overly legalistic approach to moral questions and her failure to provide explicit answers during the testimony and her behavior was over-lawyered and over-prepared, making her position untenable. However, he defended her, asserting that she showed not the slightest anti-Semitism. In the aftermath of the back-to-back resignations, donors ceased funding, criticizing she didn’t go far enough to condemn the anti-Semitism incident. Magill agreed to remain tenured until a new interim replacement was found. *Vocabularies; anti-Semitism, Semitic, genocide, constitute, pervasive, be/come under fire, back to back, tenured, interim, explicit, tenable, not the slightest, lawyer, legalistic
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