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ZOA Letters to Temple University Soros-Affiliated President Jason Wingard on Antisemitic Incident There

January 19, 2022

VIA EMAIL

Dr. Jason Wingard, President

Temple University

Second Floor, Sullivan Hall

1330 Polett Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19122


Dear President Wingard (link to info on Wingard’s anti-Israel Soros affiliation):


xxxxxxxWe write again to urge Temple University to harshly discipline the student who targeted and harassed her former roommate and rowing teammate, Sasha Westrick, based on Ms. Westrick’s Jewish identity. In our January 17 letter, we described in detail the harassment that Ms. Westrick endured at Temple for months. It was so severe and persistent that it created a hostile educational environment for Ms. Westrick and interfered with her ability to participate in and benefit from the activities and opportunities that Temple has to offer. As a result of the harassment, Ms. Westrick reportedly stopped going to rowing practice, quit the rowing team and has actually left Temple to attend another school.

xxxxxxxPlease consider the swift and forceful actions that other university leaders correctly took when students engaged in offensive speech about Blacks and women. Unlike the situation at Temple, the offenses at these other universities were isolated incidents, and the offenders did not target anyone specifically based on their race or sex. The offenders were nevertheless harshly punished because they created a hostile learning environment for others.

xxxxxxxAt the University of Oklahoma, members of a fraternity were caught on video chanting the “n” word and referring to lynching. The university’s president wasted no time in expelling two leaders of the fraternity, disciplining over 20 other students and shutting down the entire fraternity – even though the entire fraternity had not been involved in the incident – because the “racist and exclusionary chant . . . created a hostile learning environment for others.” The president said, “Our purpose is to learn lessons and be held accountable and then move forward with our lives."

xxxxxxxWhen fraternity members at Yale University chanted in a campus quad, “No means yes! Yes means anal!” and other revolting messages, the university suspended the fraternity for five years and penalized individual students for violating university rules relating to “harassment, coercion or intimidation” and “imperiling the integrity and values of the University community.” As the Yale College Dean wrote in her message to students and faculty about the sanctions imposed, “Every member of our community has a legal and moral right to an educational environment free from harassment and intimidation.”

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Read the initial letter send on January 17, 2022:

INITIAL ZOA LETTER

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