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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

this is Potomac Watch.

Columbia University President Manouche Chefique resigns after months of anger over her

handling or non-handling of protesters on that Ivy League campus.

But with the protest movement gearing back up for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,

are we looking at another turbulent fall?

Also, the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets

sign up for more debates.

What should we expect?

Welcome to Potomacwatch.

I'm Kim Strassal.

Joined today by my wonderful colleagues, Manet Uquay Burruh and Colin Levy.

So Ms. Shefique's resignation now makes Columbia the fourth Ivy President to step down in just past nine months. Penn President Liz McGill resigned in December, Harvard President Claudine Gay in January.

Both of those followed quickly after a congressional hearing which they spoke and

angered a lot of members of Congress but also donors to their university.

In May the president of Cornell Martha Pollack unexpectedly resigned she said it

was entirely her own decision, but it did

come amid controversy over Cornell's disciplinary actions against some

pro-Palestinian students. So now we have this Columbia resignation, which it was somewhat

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