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The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz McGill, has resigned, and we've just gotten word that the chair of the University of Pennsylvania's board of trustees, Scott Bach, has also resigned effective immediately.

The UPenn controversy began spiraling earlier this week after McGill's testimony before

Congress about anti-Semitism on campus. The former U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger,

who died the other week, once said that the battles in academia were so vicious because there was so little at stake. What we have had

in the past few days is a battle within academia that has actually shown much more is at stake.

Three college presidents, not just three college presidents, three presidents of Ivy League institutions,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania,

UPenn. The presidents were all up before a congressional committee to talk about anti-Semitism

on campus since what happened on October the 7th.

And the answers the presidents gave have caused an absolute firestorm across America.

They were being questioned by a Republican congresswoman, Elise Stefannic, from New York.

At MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules

regarding bullying and harassment? Yes or no?

If targeted at individuals not making public statements.

Yes or no? Calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment?

I have not heard calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus. So those would not be

according to the MIT's Code of Conduct or Rules? That would be investigated as harassment,

if pervasive and severe. Ms. McGill, at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct?

Yes or no?

If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.

Yes.

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