Published December 8, 2023
Harvard University President Claudine Gay told the school’s newspaper ‘I am sorry’
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., criticized Harvard University President Claudine Gay after she apologized for remarks made on antisemitism during a congressional hearing Tuesday.
In an interview with The Harvard Crimson published Thursday, Gay apologized for her remarks before Congress earlier in the week, saying “I am sorry…Words matter.”
“When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret,” Gay said. “I got caught up in what had become at that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures.
“What I should have had the presence of mind to do in that moment was return to my guiding truth, which is that calls for violence against our Jewish community— threats to our Jewish students — have no place at Harvard, and will never go unchallenged,” added Gay. “Substantively, I failed to convey what is my truth.”
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
RELATED: Republicans of House Committee on Education Open Investigation of Harvard, MIT and Penn After Hearing on Anti-Semitism
Published December 8, 2023
The congressional hearings on anti-Semitism in higher education this week were a disaster for Harvard, MIT and Penn. The presidents of these schools showed the nation how insane our college campuses have become in recent years.
Now Republicans of the Committee on Education are opening a formal investigation into these schools.
There is nothing these schools would love more than for this public relations nightmare to end and fade into history but this investigation ensures that isn’t going to happen. The public is going to learn even more about what is happening at these schools.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Harvard President Apologizes for Congressional Testimony on Antisemitism
The president, Claudine Gay, told the campus newspaper that she “should have had the presence of mind” to answer differently.
Claudine Gay, the Harvard president, testified before a House committee at the Capitol on Tuesday.Credit…Will Oliver/EPA, via Shutterstock
Published December 8, 2023
Harvard’s president apologized for her testimony before Congress about how she responded to antisemitism on campus — another sign that the controversy over her remarks and similar comments by the presidents of M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania was not going away.
“I am sorry,” Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, said in an interview that the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, published on Friday. “Words matter.”
“When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret,” she said.
The interview came as Dr. Gay, along with Elizabeth Magill of Penn and Sally Kornbluth of M.I.T., faced a storm of repercussions from the hearing, including a demand from more than 70 members of Congress — all of them Republicans, except for three Democrats — that they resign.
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SOURCE: www.nytimes.com
RELATED: House Education Panel to Investigate Harvard, Penn, MIT
Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, says the investigation into the three universities will involve substantial document requests, threatening subpoenas if they don’t comply.
Published December 8, 2023
The House Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday that it would formally investigate Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania for their recent responses to campus antisemitism—and warned that other inquiries could follow.
North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx, the Republican chair of the committee, said in a statement Thursday that the testimony of the three institutions’ presidents at a hearing on antisemitism earlier this week was “absolutely unacceptable.”
“Committee members have deep concerns with their leadership and their failure to take steps to provide Jewish students the safe learning environment they are due under law,” Foxx said.
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SOURCE: www.insidehighered.com
