“At one point [President Salovey] copped to being a Zionist”—that’s according to Evan Morris, a Yale professor, telling Syllabus podcast host Mark Oppenheimer about his meeting with Yale president Peter Salovey to demand that the university come out more forcefully against Hamas. But what does it matter if the Yale president is a Zionist? For that matter, who cares what university presidents think about politics? Apparently, the answer is: everyone. In the past few weeks, administrators have been called on as never before to come out with forceful political statements. In episode 3 of The Syllabus, Oppenheimer presses Morris, an outspoken faculty activist, on why it matters what university presidents think. In this candid conversation, they talk about DEI, antisemitism, Jews, double standards, and much more. 

Guest Gio: Evan D. Morris teaches biomedical imaging at Yale. Before coming to Yale, he taught professional ethics at Purdue and Indiana. In 2021, Morris founded the Yale Forum for Jewish Faculty and Friends to fight antisemitism on campus.

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