The president of Mount St. Mary's University, who last month was quoted in the school newspaper comparing struggling students to rabbits who should be killed, has fired two professors who criticized his policies. On Monday, President Simon Newman fired the professor who oversaw the student publication and a tenured professor who has condemned the leader of the small Catholic school in Maryland. "Firing a tenured professor -- that’s nuclear," Peter Bonilla of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told The Washington Post.