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Three House Republican women are showing the nation exactly how to deal with elitist university leaders who think they are above the law.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik recently gave a master class on how to interrogate hostile witnesses. When Stefanik, a Harvard graduate, repeatedly asked Harvard President Claudine Gay whether advocating the genocide of Jews during public hearings on anti-Semitism on campus could be condemned. The moment was shocking.
Mr. Gay and two other presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania spent the hearing dodging simple and direct questions about their response to overt anti-Semitism on their campuses. It was pathetic and hypocritical. The three leaders embodied the woke madness that has taken over our elite universities.
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Stefanik was so effective that the video of her interrogation is now one of the most-watched hearings in Congressional history. It has been viewed over 1 billion times and the number continues to grow.
As a result of Stefanik’s questioning, University of Pennsylvania President Liz McGill resigned from her position.
As Heather McDonald summarized for City Journal:
“On Saturday, Liz McGill was forced to resign as president of the University of Pennsylvania. By all accounts, she was not willing to declare in a Congressional hearing that calls for the genocide of Jews are punishable speech. “She would have lost more justly.” “When it comes to freedom of expression on campus, it’s her job to be a bald-faced hypocrite. The future of higher education depends on which of these motives. will govern such decisions in the future.”
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In contrast, Harvard University’s Board of Trustees supported President Gay. However, it has now come to light that she plagiarized parts of her own doctoral thesis and several other academic papers. Harvard University’s policy on plagiarism is clear: “Falsification of research results, which involves misrepresentation, distortion, or material omissions in data or research reporting, is considered a serious violation of academic integrity. .Plagiarism or falsification of research results typically results in a request for expulsion from Harvard University. ”
In fact, 27 undergraduate students were forced to withdraw from Harvard during the 2020-2021 academic year.
But Harvard now appears to be performing rhetorical gymnastics to defend an already humiliated president. It seems like an insider club is rallying around her. However, hypocrisy and dishonesty are beginning to affect Harvard’s reputation.
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While Stefanik was busy creating a public record of the obscenity of elite universities, two other House Republican women were busy passing substantive legislation that would hold universities more accountable. .
Representative Michelle Steel has introduced a bill that would require universities to report all foreign gifts. Reporting foreign donations of $250,000 or more is already a legal requirement, but elite universities have refused to comply. Despite earnest efforts by the Trump administration’s Department of Education, these elite universities refuse to report millions of dollars in foreign gifts. (Co-author Claire Christensen and I joined this project while researching “.”trump vs china. ”)
Rep. Michelle Steele (R-Calif.) (second from left), House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R.N.Y.), and Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas, House Minority Leader) ) speaks to reporters during a press conference with (R-Left) whipping Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) after a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., October 20, 2021. do (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Representative Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, was a co-sponsor of the bill and worked to make it a bipartisan project. According to a statement from the committee:
“The House passed HR 5933, the Defending Transparency in Education and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Fraudulent Transactions (DETERRENT) Act. This is bipartisan legislation that provides clarity on gift reporting requirements. As the committee stated, “This is the first in a series of bills to reform higher education law.”
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On the floor, there was bipartisan support for improving university transparency, with 215 Republicans and 31 Democrats joining, and the bill was decisively passed.
These two steps, one for research and one for legislation, are signs of real progress. None of this would have happened without Republican control of the House or the leadership of these outstanding Republican women.
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