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(Reuters) - Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the "N-word" countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on antisemitism and plagiarism allegations. Gay made the comments in a New York Times opinion piece on Wednesday, a day after she yielded to pressure from Harvard's Jewish community and members of Congress to step down over the Dec. 5 congressional hearing and allegations about her academic work. "My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My i......

Following the resignation of Harvard University president Claudine Gay, Republican lawmakers gloated over her downfall.

"TWO DOWN," House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) posted to X. "@Harvard knows that this long overdue forced resignation of the antisemitic plagiarist president is just the beginning of what will be the greatest scandal of any college or university in history."

According to Politico, some other Republican lawmakers are following Stefanik's lead, with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) saying, “This is the right move. Our university leaders have gone full-on woke and harbor anti-Semitism on campuses. Many should step down.” And Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) called Gay "a disgrace to her profession."...