Washington (AP) The President of the Haverford College was insulted by the Republican legislators in a hearing of the congress on campus anti-Semitism, some suggest that the school should lose federal funding due to their refusal to discuss the discipline after the Pro Palestinian protests.
Wendy Raymond performed on Capitol Hill together with two other college presidents, but was the only one who did not accuse punishments for students and faculties who were accused due to anti-Jewish bias. After Raymond has been repeatedly asked, their institution does not publish the results of disciplinary processes.
“I assume that it is your first constitution right to be evasive, but it is also our right to decide that such institutions do not earn any taxpayers,” said Republican MP Bob Onder from Missouri.
Also before the house committee for education and workforce, Jeffrey Armstrong from the California Polytechnic State University and Robert Manuel from Depaul University were. It was the latest in a number of hearings that the Presidents of the University checked about their answers to the allegations of anti -Jewish bias after October 7, 2023 by Hamas, attacks on Israel and a wave of protests that defeated the nation’s campus.
In contrast to others, in which the leaders of Harvard, Columbia and other elite institutions-with stumbling blocks who later contribute to their resignations, they intentionally focused on lesser-known schools. The Republicans tried to look beyond the Ivy League to underline the spread of anti -Semitism on the US campus.
The leaders of the committee aimed to choose a diverse mix of universities. Haverford is a tiny school for free arts outside of Philadelphia, which was founded by quäkern. Depaul is a Catholic university with an urban campus in Chicago. Cal Poly is a campus of 22,000 students in San Luis Obispo.
For more than three hours, the Republicans founded the presidents for reports on anti-Jewish harassment to their campus, which extends from social media posts to the physical attack of two Jewish students in Depaul. Democrats condemned the hearing and called it political theater, which does little to combat discrimination.
Most of the trio of the presidents made a respectful tone and recognized some misconceptions and emphasized the work to make the students safer. Raymond and Manuel apologized for deficiencies, while Armstrong said “we have to do better” to hold people for prejudice.
While the presidents of Cal Poly and Depaul shared information about disciplinary measures against anti -Semitism, Raymond refused.
“We don’t speak publicly about these figures,” she said when she was asked when asked. She admitted that some measures had taken, but declined to continue.
It drew a scorching reprimand by Rep. Elise Stefanik, Rn.Y., known for the orchestrated fiery exchange with former President of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, who contributed to their resignations last year.
“Respectfully, President of Haverford, have been in this position who are no longer in their positions as presidents of universities because they did not answer any simple questions,” said Stefanik.
Stefanik interviewed Raymond about the social media post by a professor and describes the Hamas attacks as “imprisoned people who free themselves from their chains”. Raymond called it repulsive, but refused to discuss individual cases.
Depaul’s president was checked on the treatment of a pro-Palestinian camp. The demonstrators took over a campus quad at Chicago University for 17 days and, according to the school, caused damage to property of $ 180,000. The police cleared the camp and said they found knives, a pellet gun and other weapons.
“My question is, if there is another camp, do you take it off this next day?” Asked Rep. Mary Miller, R-ILL.
“Yes,” said Manuel.
Other Republicans approved the idea of the funding for schools that refuse to reveal punishments, and said the congress should examine the topic. MP Ryan Mackenzie from Pennsylvania said it should be a basis for receiving financial resources.
The Republicans started the series of hearings at the end of 2023 and routinely called educational managers in Capitol Hill to testify. Los Angeles for the chiefs of Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Northwestern University and the University of California.
The Trump administration has frozen grants at universities, which aims from a Task Force for the Federal Anti -Semitism against the Federal share of anti -Semitism. The targeted goals include Columbia, Penn and Harvard, which sue the restoration of 2.2 billion US dollars. The educational department doubled last week and said Harvard was no longer entitled to fresh grants.
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