Penn President Resigns, Record MLB Contract, & More | 12.11.23
The Pour Over: Politically Neutral, Christ-First News
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're talking about Penn's president resigning after backlash, a record |
| 0:07.5 | MLB contract, an update on the Israel Hamas war, another top nukes for Monday, December 11th. |
| 0:15.0 | Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with the poor over today. |
| 0:20.0 | Here's the quote of the day. |
| 0:22.0 | We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy |
| 0:25.9 | too little the many things we have, William Shakespeare. |
| 0:30.9 | Let's get started with some espresso shots. |
| 0:35.0 | Liz McGill has stepped down as president of the University of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:41.0 | Last week Congress questioned the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn about |
| 0:46.5 | rising anti-Jewish sentiment on their campuses. |
| 0:50.2 | When Representative Elise Stephanic asked if calls for Jewish Genocide violated Penn's code of conduct, |
| 0:56.3 | McGill said it was context dependent. Wealthy donors, social media users, |
| 1:02.1 | and even the White House were not impressed and demanded she resign. |
| 1:06.3 | Miguel later said that calls for genocide are evil, plain and simple, but both she and the chair of |
| 1:12.1 | the Board of Trustees have since resigned. |
| 1:15.0 | Harvard and MIT's presidents remain under fire for similarly less than firm responses. |
| 1:21.0 | Meanwhile, universities of Wisconsin Regents voted 9 to 8 to reject a deal with state Republicans |
| 1:27.4 | that would have provided about $1 billion in funding in exchange for shifting staff away from the campus diversity, equity, and inclusion |
| 1:35.9 | initiatives. |
| 1:37.8 | The world is restless in many areas, including college campuses. |
| 1:46.0 | While it's easy to become angry and indignant, |
| 1:49.0 | it's much more difficult to live with attention of desiring change while simultaneously loving everyone involved. |
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