he didn t make anything up didn t give fiery speeches. he said how do you explain this? the numbers kept growing. evidently she decided the number of plagiarism, the proof of plagiarism continued to grow. i think it s basically proven i love the way people say it s not that she plagiarized she took quotes from other people and didn t attribute it. fine. get my head around it. it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and the upholding scholarly rigor to bedrock values that are fundamentally to who i am and frightening to be subjected to threatening attacks and hate filled animus. that s what we heard from al sharpton. he believes that she broke the glass ceiling as a block woman and that that s the reason she lost her job, which is really you have to allude you have to devoid yourself from the facts. steve: racist? was it racist a couple weeks ago when elizabeth magill of u penn
harvard s reputation was really badly being damaged by what happened on capitol a few weeks ago and her staying on. you had a reduction i think of about 17% in early admissions at harvard, again people like harvard alum bill ackman threatening to withhold money, the same thing happened at u-penn, a very big donor said he was withdrawing $100 million donation to u-penn. so it was reputation, it was money, a lot of things and pressure came to bear, i don t know if she was forced to step down, she says after consultation with the corporation, clearly there was gillian: by the way is staying publicly silent since december 12th, no insight really into what the corporation is thinking. john: you can only ever speculate what happened during the meeting but did end up with her issuing a letter of
plagiarism, because harvard was standing by her and o er position calling for the genocide of jews violates policy at hard, that took out liz magill at u-penn, the woman at mit is in her job, but plagiarism charges she seemed to be on shakey ground, and big ackman calling to take her out, they were resistant. gillian: this may ultimately be it. the school has not spoken about her tenure since december 12th when they issued the findings not the findings, excuse me, issued announcement she would remain in her role, they said she conducted an investigation into the allegations of plagiarism, they had had edit works to include sourcing they said was missing but other than
adding, we do so with sorrow. conservative media had been unearthing multiple examples of plagiarism in behave gay s past works, including an entire paragraph lifted almost verbatim in her 1997 ph.d. dissertation without citation. after she along with the presidents of u-penn and m.i.t. gave an answer that was widely considered too legal in a december 5th congressional hearing about anti-semitism on campus. so the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct. again, it depends on the context. reporter: fallout from the hearing also resulted in the resignation of u-penn s president, liz mcgill. house republican caucus leader elise stefanik wasting no time responding to today s events. as a harvard graduate myself, we have seen a failure of leadership from claudine gay, a failure of moral leadership.
Mary Elizabeth Magill was being pressured to resign from the University of Pennsylvania after statements made during a congressional committee on antisemitism on college campuses.