A few cheeky tweets took down the chairman of the board of trustees at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Self-styled student activists started an online shame campaign last week, which led insurance executive and Ursinus alumnus Michael Marcon to quit the board chairmanship on Thursday—”in order for true healing and true growth to take root,” per Marcon’s statement to students and faculty.
The Philadelphia Inquirer chose to print Marcon’s greatest hits, at the risk of retraumatizing the Ursinus community:
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