“This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can’t. You just have to drown the bunnies… put a Glock to their heads,” reportedly said Simon Newman, the president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

Simon Newman. Photo courtesy of Mount St. Mary’s University

Two faculty members, one a tenured professor and the other the adviser of the college newspaper, were fired after the above-mentioned quote by the college president was revealed by the student newspaper The Mountain Echo.

More on this story here: Inside Higher Ed.

By: NOVA Fortnightly Staff

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