“You just have to drown the bunnies … put a Glock to their heads.”

Fox News reports.

College officials fired after problem students likened to drowning ‘bunnies’

EMMITSBURG, Md. – A plan to identify freshmen most likely to fail has erupted into a scandal, faculty firings and a demotion at Mount St. Mary’s University after the Catholic school’s president reportedly likened the students to baby rabbits that should be killed.

President Simon Newman is a former financial-industry executive hired in 2014 to lead the college in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The Mountain Echo student newspaper reported Jan. 19 that Newman told a faculty member opposed to the so-called student-retention plan, “This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can’t. You just have to drown the bunnies … put a Glock to their heads.”

Newman acknowledged the comments Tuesday in an emailed response to questions from The Associated Press. “I understand that they were insensitive and I have apologized for using these words,” he wrote.