Local News As Harvard president faces pressure to resign, some faculty show support More than 500 members of the Harvard faculty have signed a petition urging “in the strongest possible terms” to “resist political pressures that are at odds with Harvard’s commitment to academic freedom.” The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times The president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, faced escalating pressure Sunday to resign as prominent alumni, donors and politicians called for her ouster. But a group of faculty members rallied to support her, arguing that she was being railroaded for a moment of...