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Editorial: University presidents proved spectacularly inept on Capitol Hill. Resignations should follow

Elise Stefanik speaks during a press conference following a Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on Sept. 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C..

On Tuesday, Elise Stefanik, the U.S. representative for New York’s 21st Congressional District, posed the same question to the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, proxies all for America’s liberal intellectual elite.

The repeated question for Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of Penn and Sally Kornbluth of MIT from the Republican congresswoman, herself a Harvard graduate?

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (insert name of campus) rules on bullying and harassment?

One after another, the presidents refused to answer Stefanik’s yes-or-no question,

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