Claudine Gay ‘WILL remain in as Harvard president with support of board’ after anti-Semitism scandal that has tanked college’s reputation

Claudine Gay will remain president of Harvard with the full support of the Ivy League college’s leadership, the student newspaper reports.

Harvard Raspberry On Tuesday morning, it was reported that the Harvard Corporation, the college’s highest governing body, had backed Gay despite calls for her resignation following her testimony to Congress about anti-Semitism on campus.

A statement confirming the news will be released this morning, the newspaper said.

Billionaire hedge fund alumnus Bill Ackman, who led the campaign to oust Gay, said Harvard’s board did not want to be seen as favoring him.

Gay, the school’s first Black president, was appointed to the post in July 2023. She drew fury during a congressional hearing last week when she said it depends on the context whether calls for genocide of Jews at Harvard constitute harassment and a violation of the rules.

Claudine Gay, pictured during her disastrous testimony before Congress on Dec. 5, will remain president of Harvard, it was reported early Tuesday morning.

A billboard truck at Harvard University on Sunday calls for the removal of President Claudine Gay.

She was subsequently forced to apologize after a hearing that cost Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania her job over a similar response.

Gay, who on Monday denied reports that she had plagiarized, sparked fury for the first time since the Oct. 7 massacre that killed 1,200 people in Israel with a tepid condemnation of the outrage.

She was subsequently forced to issue two subsequent apologies that included more vocal condemnation of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group behind the atrocities.

A gay man has been criticized for taking a pro-free speech stance against Jew hatred on a campus that was recently named the most condemning in the United States.

New students are warned that not using a person’s requested pronoun or exhibiting “fatphobia” may constitute violence.

Gay also helped lead the charge against a Black Harvard Law School professor who was fired from his job after defending Harvey Weinstein.

Ronald Sullivan says he was fired from his job in 2019 after agreeing to represent the twisted movie mogul. He accused Gay and others of making up a false story that he was a bully in order to get rid of him.

Sullivan said, “The actions were cowardly and cowardly, and Dean Gay and Dean Khurana simply continually and repeatedly lied to the students, and they know better.”

Billionaire hedge fund alumnus Bill Ackman, who led the anti-gay campaign, said Harvard’s board doesn’t want to be seen worshiping.

“Their problem was that I represented an unpopular figure… They said it to my face, and other senior members said it to my face, and then they turned around and lied to the students.”

Ackman and others have since begun withdrawing donations from the college.

Despite the backlash, Gay maintained institutional support at Harvard.

On Monday, the executive committee of the Harvard University Alumni Association announced its full support for the scientist and asked the school’s leadership to publicly support her, The Harvard Crimson reports.

The group wrote: “President Gay is the right leader to lead the university through this difficult time… She is thoughtful. She is kind. She is strongly committed to the growth and well-being of our very diverse community. We acknowledge that her testimony last week was disappointing. “President Gay pointed this out and apologized for all the pain her testimony caused, which was a powerful demonstration of her integrity, determination and courage.”

In addition, more than 640 Harvard faculty members signed a letter in support of Gay, calling on the school to resist calls to fire her, calling attacks against her “politically motivated.”

Harvard legal scholar Lawrence Tribe, who previously called Gay’s testimony “deeply troubling,” told CNN he signed the petition because “as soon as external pressure, whether from super-rich donors or from politicians pursuing their ideological agendas, prevails over the internal decision-making processes of universities, we are on the path to tyranny.”