HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a US congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the university’s conduct policy. She is the second Ivy League president to resign in the past month following the congressional testimony. Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennyslvania, resigned on 9 December. Gay, Harvard’s first black president, announced her departure just months into her tenure in a letter to the Harvard community. In her letter Ms Gay said it has been “distressing...