Linfield University Fires Professor Who Spoke Out About Misconduct Cases Allegations of anti-Semitism, sexual misconduct and racial discrimination have led to turmoil on the small Oregon campus. Some have called for the university’s president to resign. Pioneer Hall on the Linfield University campus in McMinnville, Ore.Credit...Will Matsuda for The New York Times May 1, 2021 Across the country, colleges and universities have been wrestling with allegations of sexual misconduct, racial discrimination and anti-Semitism. But rarely have the three collided at the highest levels of leadership, as they have at Linfield University, a small, historically Baptist college in Oregon’s wine country, which celebrated the appointment of its first Black president in 2018.