Report: Embattled UPenn Law Prof. Amy Wax Appealing Hearing Board Sanctions Quietly Recommended Over The Summer
Board reportedly said “Wax should face sanctions, including a one-year suspension at half pay with benefits intact, but stopped short of calling for her to be fired and stripped of tenure.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that dissident UPenn Law Professor Amy Wax is appealing sanctions quietly recommended against her by the faculty hearing board this past summer.
We’ve covered Wax’s ongoing conflict with PennLaw from the very beginning, when she triggered the woke campus mob by unapologetically expressing conservative views in a 2017 op-ed:
- Students Demand Denunciation and Investigation of Professors: 1966 China or 2017 U. Penn?
- Academic Freedom Alliance Comes to Defense of U. Penn Prof Amy Wax, Who was Threatened With Sanctions For Wrongthink
- Paul du Quenoy: Penn Law Professor Amy Wax Deserves Our Support
- Roger Kimball: “for stating such obvious truths” Prof. Amy Wax “is being dragged into the Star Chamber at Penn”
- How A Weak Penn Law Dean Weaponized Student Hurt Feelings Against Dissident Prof. Amy Wax
- U Penn Law Prof. Amy Wax Seeks Dismissal Of University Disciplinary Proceedings: “Premature, Unwarranted, and Prejudicial”
- Tables Turned: Prof. Amy Wax, Charged With Wrongthink, Files Counter-Grievance Against U Penn Law Dean
- It “Sucks” That Prof. Amy Wax Still Employed, U Penn Law Dean Declared On Recently Released 2019 Audio
- Embattled UPenn Law Prof Amy Wax Sets the Record Straight: “mainstream media coverage has been agenda-driven”
As we wrote earlier, it was not long before the dean caved to the students’ demands and took up their cause in the conflict that escalated as Wax continued to voice her unorthodox views over the years. Finally, as we wrote here, in June 2022 he submitted a letter to the Faculty Senate calling for a review of Wax’s conduct for violation of University policy under the Faculty Handbook and a “major sanction” including possible termination.
The faculty hearing board’s subsequent decision this past June, reportedly rubber stamped by then-President M. Elizabeth Magill in August, came to light for the first time in the Inquirer’s February 20th story:
[S]ources close to the investigation confirmed a university hearing board made up of tenured faculty recommended in June that Wax should face sanctions, including a one-year suspension at half pay with benefits intact, but stopped short of calling for her to be fired and stripped of tenure.
The hearing board also recommended: a public reprimand issued by university leadership, the loss of her named chair and summer pay, and a requirement to note in her public appearances that she is not speaking for or as a member of the Penn Carey Law school or Penn, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the matter.
The paper also reports that Wax has “appealed the ruling, alleging proper procedure wasn’t followed.”
BREAKING: Former @Penn President Liz Magill signed off on sanctions against Amy Wax last August, according to the Philly Inquirer.
The sanctions included:
-“a one-year suspension at half pay;”
-“a public reprimand issued by university leadership;”
-“loss of her named chair… pic.twitter.com/7nEhHVGq2M
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) February 21, 2024
The paper says that Penn declined to comment. Nor had Wax or her lawyer responded to their immediate requests for comment.
Wax’s appeal will be reviewed by Penn’s Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, the article explains, adding that if the committee “rules that procedures were not followed in Wax’s case, then the matter would be remanded to the hearing board for further review, according to procedures outlined in the Senate handbook.”
But if the committee agrees with the board and imposes sanctions, Penn is going to have a lot of explaining to do. While the school was quick to condemn Wax for wrongthink, it has tolerated numerous acts of antisemitism on its campus in the name of “free speech.” As we reported recently here, Penn is under federal scrutiny for that antisemitism, over which Magill resigned in disgrace last December.
The House Committee investigating antisemitism at Penn called the school out for its hypocritical mistreatment of Amy Wax: “Penn has demonstrated a clear double standard by tolerating antisemitic vandalism, harassment, and intimidation, but suppressing and penalizing other expression it deemed problematic,” it said in its letter to the school.
As we wrote earlier, it’s hard to see how the school can justify sanctioning Wax for her controversial views while giving a free pass to the destroy-Israel chants and threats of actual violence its Jewish students are subjected to on campus:
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Zionism is racism,” “Penn funds Palestinian genocide,” and “From West Philly to Palestine, occupation is a crime.”
And if it does, it will have to own up to having one set of rules for antisemites and another for Professor Amy Wax.
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What idiots. They could have saved face and ended it by just demanding she clarify she is not speaking for the school in future.
Exhibit # 37,005 of “These people are too dumb to be teaching anybody anything.”
Professors never speak for the university. And everyone knows that. So imposing such a disclaimer on one professor is a gratuitous gesture solely intended to humiliate.
“The University of Pennsylvania has about 1,600 undergraduate Jewish students, which is about 16% of the undergrad population.”
That sounds like a potential class action. Hostile work environment for Jewish faculity & students..
“loss of her named chair”
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chairs.
I am amazed that the committee did not sentence her to months in stocks, for her outrageous crime!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks
This is a woke lynching
“. . . students’ demands and took up their cause in the conflict that escalated as Wax continued to voice her unorthodox views over the years.”
Those unorthodox view have enabled civilization to proceed apace. Until the left got critical mass.
Charles Murray’s Belmont and Fishtown,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bxFzWRuw0c
I was about to to ask the author of this piece to elaborate on “Wax continued to voice her unorthodox views over the years.”
I would think for most sane and normal people, her views are quite mainstream. Obviously, to those in Big Education, such is not the case.
“Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from witchcraft.”
and the continued threat of lefty violence has americans pinned down :
Khalif said that he had notified the university that, if Wax were not fired within a week, he would begin disrupting university classes and other activities with a series of protests.[26]
As a result of these controversies, in March 2018, Dean Ruger stripped Wax of her duties teaching curriculum courses to first-year students.[27][28] He condemned her comments as “repugnant,” and, at a student town hall meeting, he said that “her presence here … makes me angry, it makes me pissed off… she still works here … sucks,” but that “the only way to get rid of a tenured professor is this process… that’s gonna take months.”[29]
Kinda demonstrating why tenure is a thing.
Meanwhile, “repugnant” is not “wrong.” Clearly Dean Ruger’s field includes neither rhetoric, nor logic.
when violence presents itself and no one is willing to stand up to it
violence wins
now that the government is fully on board with lefty wing violence as
PART OF REPARATIONS
we are in bigggggggg trouble
Sue, sue, and sue some more!
Took the words right out of my mouth! Would love to see a mega-billion-dollar class action suit instituted in a friendly federal environment because one of the class action members hails from such a place!
I’ve forgotten; what’s her ThoughtCrime, again?
So “unapologetically expressing conservative views” is both “unorthodox” & “controversial”? In the words of the woke, check your bias, Jane Coleman.
Amy Wax is one of the smartest people on the planet. She has earned an M.D. and a J.D. and is a professor at an Ivy league school. The percentage of people that can equal her credentials is miniscule.
The reason that students, administrators and other academics want her to be stripped of tenure and fired is because she invited Jared Taylor, creator and editor of the American Rennaissance website speak at a symposium at U Penn.
Jared Taylor is not a ‘white supremacist’. He is a ‘white nationalist’. He was raised in Japan, speaks fluent Japanese, and knows what it is like to live in a homogenous nation.
Jared Taylor’s Raison d’Etre is to promote the notion that white people have a right to live in majority white countries politically controlled by white people, representing the interests of white people.
This is anathema to minoritarionism, thus Dr. Wax’s persecution.
Erronius
There is no difference, as you go on to demonstrate.
That is white supremacism. It’s just as bad as black supremacism (excuse me, “black nationalism”).
With respect, you are equating “nationalism” with “supremacism”. That is misguided. They are not the same. The first is simply a different way of saying that “birds of a feather [have a right to] flock together”. The second is saying that ducks are better than geese.
“Wax on, Wax off”
-Mr. Miyagi
Amy Wax, by her common sense example of speaking truth to the corrupted, is training all sane, good-hearted people in the martial arts of anti-woke, anti-Marxist combat.