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    UPenn president resigns after answers to Congress about antisemitism on campus draw sharp criticism

    by Via AP news wire Dec 09, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    The University of Pennsylvania’s President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over her testimony at a congressional hearing, where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.

    The resignation from Magill, in her second year as president of the Ivy League school, was announced Saturday in a statement on the UPenn website by the board of trustees.

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