Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, fresh from her confrontation in a hearing with the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT, is declaring that higher education is at a “watershed moment” and predicts it will be difficult for the three university leaders to remain in their jobs after dodging the questions that her committee asked them early this week. 

In conversation with the Sun by telephone, Ms. Stefanik, who is a Harvard alumna and the fourth-ranking House Republican, predicted that a probe into the universities, announced by the House on Thursday, will lead to their presidents’  terminations.  By her count, Harvard president Claudine Gay gave shifting and irresolute answers to her now-viral query from the Tuesday hearing — if calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes bullying and harassment in violation of the school’s code of conduct — 17 times.