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宾夕法尼亚大学校长马吉尔周二在华盛顿国会山参加教育委员会的听证会
在国会听证会的反复质询面前，宾大校长利兹·马吉尔（Liz Magill）仍未松口承认说“有人在校园内呼吁对犹太人种族灭绝”的行为违反了该校的行为规范。此举引发大量批评，学校捐赠者也因此施压，该校长最终辞职。
The chairman of the Ivy League school’s board of trustees, Scott Bok, also resigned immediately during a trustees meeting Saturday evening, just hours after Bok announced Liz Magill’s departure as president in just her second year.
这所常春藤盟校的董事会主席斯科特·博克（Scott Bok）也在 12 月 16 日晚上的董事会会议上辞职，此前几个小时，博克刚宣布马吉尔在担任校长的第二年离职。
博克是马吉尔的支持者，在过去几个月中一直为马吉尔辩护，并批判大学对反犹太主义行为的任何处理方式。
He called her a good person and talented leader who is not “the slightest bit antisemitic,” but gave a legalistic and wooden response after being worn down by months of criticism and hours of questioning in the congressional hearing.
博克称马吉尔品行端正、领导力强，没有“丝毫反犹情绪”。只是疲于应对长达数月的批评之声和持续几小时的国会质询，她才做出了略显拘泥法度、木讷生硬的回应。
The university said Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university’s Carey Law School. She has agreed to keep serving as Penn’s leader until the university names an interim president.
不过，宾夕法尼亚大学还表示：马吉尔将继续担任本校凯里法学院的终身教职和宾夕法尼亚大学的校长职位，直到本校任命一位临时校长。
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“反犹主义”席卷高校，校长进退两难
马吉尔 12 日与哈佛大学、麻省理工学院两校的校长一同出席了美国众议院举办的关于大学校园反犹太主义的听证会。随后，要求解雇她的呼声逐渐高涨。
Universities across the U.S. have been accused of failing to protect Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel’s intensifying war in Gaza, which faces heightened criticism for the mounting Palestinian death toll.
加沙战争形势恶化，巴勒斯坦死亡人数持续上升，以色列因此备受指责。全世界对反犹太主义的担忧日益严峻。在此形势下，很多人指责美国多所大学都未能保护好犹太学生。
The three presidents were called before the committee to answer those accusations. But their lawyerly answers drew renewed blowback from opponents, focused particularly on a line of questioning from Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who repeatedly asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate Penn’s code of conduct.
此前提到的包括马吉尔在内的三位大学校长被听证会传唤，以回答反犹指控。他们谨慎的回答引起了批评者的新一轮强烈回击，尤其是共和党众议员伊莉丝·斯特凡尼克（Elise Stefanik）的质询。斯特凡尼克一再询问马吉尔“呼吁对犹太人进行种族灭绝”是否违反了宾州大学的行为准则。
听证会上，共和党议员斯特凡尼克对校长们言辞犀利
“If the speech turns into conduct it can be harassment, yes,” Magill said. Pressed further, Magill told Stefanik, “It is a context-dependent decision, congresswoman.”
马吉尔回应道：“如果呼吁落实到了行动，那很有可能构成寻衅滋事。”在进一步追问下，马吉尔最后说道：“这应该视情况而定。”
博克指出，哈佛大学校长和麻省理工学院校长也做出了类似的回应。
Magill made a “very unfortunate misstep — consistent with that of two peer university leaders sitting alongside her — after five hours of aggressive questioning before a congressional committee,” Bok said.
博克还表示：“马吉尔在国会听证会上接受了五个小时的咄咄逼人的质询后同其他两位校长一样犯了非常遗憾的错误。”
Still, criticism of Magill rained down from the White House, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, members of Congress and donors. One donor, Ross Stevens, threatened to withdraw a $100 million gift because of the university’s “stance on antisemitism on campus” unless Magill was replaced.
尽管如此，白宫、宾夕法尼亚州州长夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）、国会议员和捐赠者对马吉尔的批评之声依然不绝于耳。一名捐赠者罗斯·史蒂芬斯（Ross Stevens）放话，因为宾大“校园反犹主义的立场”，他将撤回1亿美元的捐赠，除非校长换人。
A day later, Magill addressed the criticism, saying in a video that she would consider a call for the genocide of Jewish people to be harassment or intimidation and that Penn’s policies need to be “clarified and evaluated.”
马吉尔针对批评发表了讲话，她在一段视频中表示：她认为呼吁对犹太人进行种族灭绝是一种骚扰或恐吓行为，宾夕法尼亚大学的立场需要重新“澄清和被评估”。
马吉尔的发言并没有平息批评之声。
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辞职！美国高校何去何从？
In a statement Saturday, Stefanik said Magill’s “forced resignation” is the “bare minimum of what is required” and said Harvard and MIT should follow suit.
“马吉尔的辞职是‘底线’，哈佛和麻省理工应该效仿。” 斯特凡尼克于 16 日发表声明说道。
“One down. Two to go,” Stefanik said, adding that “this is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions in America.”
“马吉尔卸任了。”该议员说，“这仅仅是解决反犹太主义问题的开始，反犹太主义已经摧毁了美国最有声望的高等教育机构。”
博克被要求继续担任宾州大学董事长，以帮助选举一位新校长，但他认为现在是自己卸任的最佳时机。
现年 57 岁的马吉尔曾是美国最高法院的法律助理，她的父亲是一位退休联邦法官，在宾夕法尼亚大学去年聘请她担任第九任校长之前，她曾任斯坦福大学法学院院长和弗吉尼亚大学的高层管理人员。
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