Philadelphia university apologizes for and suppresses school president’s views

Thomas Jefferson, former president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, believed that people were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The university in Philadelphia bearing his name, Thomas Jefferson University, seeks to limit such rights of its employees, most notably Mark Tykocinski, the school’s president and dean of its Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Tykocinski was scolded for multiple tweets he “liked” that criticized COVID-19 vaccines and gender reassignment surgery. Joseph G. Cacchione, Thomas Jefferson University’s CEO, was critical and said he was “disappointed,” calling it a “careless use” of Twitter.