Editorial: Claudine Gay was right to resign as Harvard president, but the board owes its community a better explanation

Claudine Gay’s resignation as Harvard University president was appropriate.

Beginning with her indefensible waffling on Capitol Hill regarding whether calling for the genocide of a specific group would constitute a violation of the university’s code of conduct and then Harvard’s tepid response to significant issues found in her past academic research, it was clear some time ago that Gay couldn’t be an effective president given the controversy. The congressional-hearing disaster was reason alone for her removal, as we said at the time.

Yes, she was a target of conservatives who made no bones they desired her