{"id":3771,"date":"2023-10-20T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/law-order-creator-dick-wolf-implores-upenn-president-to-quit\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:36:26","slug":"law-order-creator-dick-wolf-implores-upenn-president-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=3771","title":{"rendered":"Law & Order creator Dick Wolf implores UPenn president to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Dick Wolf, the creator of \u201cLaw & Order,\u201d wrote a letter to Liz Magill pleading with her to step down as president of the University of Pennsylvania.\n <\/p>\n

\n Wolf, the namesake of UPenn\u2019s Wolf Humanities Center, is among a growing list of powerful donors vowing to cut off financial support to the Ivy League school over concerns about a Palestinian literature festival held on campus last month.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPresident Magill, I implore you and [chair of the board of trustees] Scott Bok to step down from your UPenn positions before any more unnecessary damage to UPenn,\u201d Wolf wrote in the letter, obtained by CNN on Friday. \u201cThere is no hope for unification in our community until you step aside.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The Emmy award-winning producer said a leadership change is the \u201conly path forward\u201d and he will \u201cend all donations to UPenn\u201d until both leaders resign.\n <\/p>\n

\n The catalyst for the donor backlash is the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which was held at UPenn last month prior to the Hamas terror attacks on Israel. UPenn leaders acknowledged prior to that multiday event that it would include speakers with a history of making antisemitism remarks.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe notion that the Wolf Humanities Center contributed to this hate fest, otherwise known as the Palestine Writes Festival, is an abomination,\u201d Wolf wrote in the letter, which has not been previously reported.\n <\/p>\n

\n Wolf\u2019s letter goes further than a statement he gave to The Daily Pennsylvanian last week saying Bok and Magill \u201cshould be held to account\u201d because their leadership has \u201cinadequately represented\u201d the university\u2019s ideals and values.\n <\/p>\n

\n UPenn did not respond to a request for comment on Wolf\u2019s letter.\n <\/p>\n

\n Organizers of the Palestine Writes festival denied that it embraced antisemitism, according to UPenn student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian.\n <\/p>\n

\n Criticism over the event escalated in the days after Hamas attacked Israel. Billionaire Marc Rowan, former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman, venture capitalist David Magerman and hedge fund billionaire Cliff Asness have all vowed to close their checkbooks. Ronald Lauder, the billionaire heir to the Est\u00e9e Lauder cosmetics empire, has threatened to do the same.\n <\/p>\n

\n For his part, Wolf said he wrote to Magill in September ahead of the Palestine Writes festival, but his \u201crequest was ignored and things have gone from bad to worse at our beloved UPenn.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The \u201cLaw & Order\u201d creator noted he was raised by a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and has supported \u201cmany faith traditions and free speech throughout my life.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI am against all forms of hate and hate speech and view this conference as inappropriate and quite frankly an embarrassment to the University,\u201d Wolf wrote.\n <\/p>\n

\n Magill, who became president of UPenn last year, issued a statement on Wednesday saying \u201chateful speech has no place at Penn.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI categorically condemn hateful speech that denigrates others as contrary to our values,\u201d Magill said. \u201cIn this tragic moment, we must respect the pain of our classmates and colleagues and recognize that our speech and actions have the power to both harm and heal our community. We must choose healing, resisting those who would divide us and instead respect and care for one another.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Bok, who chairs UPenn\u2019s board of trustees and serves as CEO of investment bank Greenhill & Co., said earlier this week that Magill has \u201cunanimous\u201d support from current and former UPenn trustees who gathered in recent days.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the days before the Palestine Writes festival, Magill was not just facing pressure from Lauder, Wolf and others who wanted the event scrapped. There were also vocal backers of the event, including even some members of the Jewish community.\n <\/p>\n

\n Dozens of Jewish members of the UPenn community wrote to Magill prior to the event to express their \u201centhusiasm\u201d for it. They even criticized Magill\u2019s condemnation of antisemitism, writing that \u201cusing this celebration of Palestinian literary traditions as an occasion to condemn antisemitism, your statement further marginalizes Palestinian experiences on campus, while supporting attempts to conflate Palestinian liberation with antisemitism\u201d.\n <\/p>\n

\n Three dozen members of the UPenn faculty also wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian in support of the Palestine Writes festival.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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