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Penn and other US colleges have simmered with tension over the Israel-Hamas war. Students have clashed at protests, and university administrators have faced criticism for their responses.
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who made headlines last month after she grilled the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania on antisemitism, claimed credit for Claudine Gay's resignation in a post on social media Tuesday.
Claudine Gay has been in an ejection seat since her hearing, a few weeks ago, in Congress. She becomes the second university president to resign amid the war in Gaza. Her presidency, the first by a black woman, was the shortest in the university's history: just six months. The president of the University of Pennsylvania, who was also interviewed and who also gave a similar answer, resigned. He was accused of plagiarism linked to his academic work, relayed by a right-wing website.