Harvard Faculty acquired 17% fewer purposes for early admission from highschool seniors this 12 months, the bottom complete in 4 years, in line with the varsity’s web site. The drop comes after incidents of antisemitism on campus within the wake of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by Hamas. Functions had been due Nov. 1,…
Turkish media say Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud crashed into and killed a bike courier earlier than leaving nation. The Somali president’s son allegedly killed a bike courier in a visitors accident in Istanbul’s Fatih district, in accordance with Turkish media studies, which mentioned he fled the nation after the incident. Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers demanded the dismissal of three high-profile college presidents who testified earlier than a Home committee this week about antisemitism and provided slender authorized responses to questions over whether or not calling for the genocide of Jews was in opposition to faculty coverage. “The world is watching — you can stand…
Funding supervisor Ross Stevens withdrew a donation valued at about $100 million that he had given his alma mater, the College of Pennsylvania, blaming the college’s stance on combating antisemitism. Stevens, co-founder of Stone Ridge Asset Administration, had pledged a stake within the agency to the Ivy League college to fund the Stevens Middle for…
Going through heavy criticism, the College of Pennsylvania’s president walked again a few of her remarks given earlier this week at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, saying she ought to have gone additional to sentence hate in opposition to Jewish college students. Penn President Liz Magill was grilled throughout a five-hour listening to Tuesday, together…
The presidents of Harvard College, the College of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how will probably be known as earlier than Congress subsequent week to handle antisemitism on their campuses. Set to seem Dec. 5 on Capitol Hill are Harvard’s Claudine Homosexual, Penn’s Liz Magill and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth, in accordance with an announcement…
The Moldovan president’s canine has bitten the hand of Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen. President Maia Sandu had been strolling together with her visitor within the grounds of the presidential residence in Chisinau, when he tried to pet her canine and the etiquette faux-pas occurred. The canine, a rescue referred to as Codrut, had…
