you to build the community we all deserve. gay s departure comes after weeks of growing plagiarism accusation and her response to antisemitism on campus. just six months after taking on that role, marking the shortest presidency in u.s. history. elise stefanik said it is still too long. it is unacceptable it took harvard a month to demand resignation of claudine gay. i believe presidents sit atop institutions that have rotted out and have institutionalized antisemitism. allen garber will be interim president until they decide on someone as president. brooke: not everybody is happy to see claudine gay go. why are elite colleges making it uncomfortable for women
disgraceful emails and phone calls. they say they condemn those attacks in the strongest possible terms. the harvard corporation announced that allen garber, the provost and chief academic officer, has agreed to become the school s interim president until a permanent one is named. how did we get here? it has just been such a tumultuous period for harvard. the school s initial response to the october 7th attacks by hamas against israel was criticized as not condemning hamas in forceful enough terms. that criticism even came from the harvard corporation. there was the hearing just last month before lawmakers where claudine gay struggle to answer a question about whether or not calls for genocide against would violate the school s code of conduct. gay apologized for her testimony. her answers were pretty similar to the leaders of m.i.t. and the university of pennsylvania. perhaps the last straw has been questions around claudine gay s
all university politics. it doesn t really affect my day-to-day life. what matters for me is the antisemitism on campus. there are students chanting for an intifada. there are students posting on social media that they think control the media. there are students who are championing terrorism and posting pictures of emojis of heads of babies separated from their torsos. that is what affects me and my peers, not the politics of the president. you know, claudine s resignation is not going to solve the issue of antisemitism on campus. we need a definitive culture shift. i wonder, do you have faith that this step means the school will be taking seriously that fixing of campus culture that you are talking about? do you anticipate having conversations with the new interim president allen garber about this? you know, it s hard to tell exactly where things are going to go from here. i have spoken with the
president in the past. he has been very attentive to the issue. i am optimistic that we will continue to work with university leadership and president garber to combat the hatred which has become commonplace on harvard s campus. have you ve been speaking with other students? what are they saying? i know it s sort of hard to gauge right now around the holidays, but what is the mood about all of this? i mean, my phone has blown up after this about the president s resignation. i think a lot of jewish students were very dissatisfied. people have become disillusioned with the discourse that is going on. you know, i think people just want campus to return back to how it was but also to improve beyond that. there is antisemitism which existed before and the war in israel just kind of took it to the floor. jacob, we appreciate the