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Linfield University President Miles K. Davis. Last Tuesday, Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, fired Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor of English and a Shakespeare scholar who had accused President Miles K. Davis of anti-Semitism. According to The Oregonian ( Linfield University President Miles K. Davis made anti-Semitic comments, professor says; Davis alleges âsmear campaignâ), President Davis faces allegations by two psychology professors that he made an inappropriate remark about Jews and the Holocaust during a 2018 meeting with faculty. The two professors, Tanya Tompkins and Jennifer Linder said that Davis illustrated his comment about being open about budget cuts by quoting his professor who used to say, âYou donât send the Jews to the shower with soap.â ....
Linfield University Fires Professor Who Spoke Out About Misconduct Cases Allegations of anti-Semitism, sexual misconduct and racial discrimination have led to turmoil on the small Oregon campus. Some have called for the university’s president to resign. Pioneer Hall on the Linfield University campus in McMinnville, Ore.Credit.Will Matsuda for The New York Times May 1, 2021 Across the country, colleges and universities have been wrestling with allegations of sexual misconduct, racial discrimination and anti-Semitism. But rarely have the three collided at the highest levels of leadership, as they have at Linfield University, a small, historically Baptist college in Oregon’s wine country, which celebrated the appointment of its first Black president in 2018. ....
Linfield University fires professor who spoke out against sexual misconduct, raised allegations against president Updated 7:26 PM; Today 6:37 PM The university’s provost Susan Agre-Kippenhan sent a message to faculty and students, referencing the school’s “extraordinary step” of firing a faculty member, alleging “serious breaches of the individual’s duty to the institution.”LC-Courtesy of Linfield College Facebook Share Linfield University on Tuesday fired English professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a public advocate for students and faculty who had complained about alleged sexual abuse by board trustees. Pollack-Pelzner, 41, also earlier this month accused university President Miles K. Davis of making anti-Semitic comments to fend off criticism of how the school handled those sexual abuse complaints. Pollack-Pelzner first shared the allegations on a Twitter thread this month. ....
Small Christian University in Oregon Grapples with Accusations of Antisemitism The allegations, and the official response that critics are calling insufficient or even misguided, illustrate the challenges of identifying, calling out and remedying allegations of antisemitism in an environment with a tiny Jewish population and relatively little familiarity with the mores surrounding discourse about Jews. (JTA) When the new president of his small Oregon university made a remark about Jewish noses, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner was unnerved. But Pollack-Pelzner, a professor at the school, was willing to assume that the president had merely made a tactless mistake. “At the time, I thought this is messed up,” he said of the 2018 encounter with Miles Davis, president of Linfield University. “I thought people stopped talking about measuring the size of Jewish noses sometime around 1945.” ....
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