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(05/06/24 6:41pm)
We write as faculty members seeking to sound an alarm. We urge Penn administrators and the Board of Trustees not to use police force against on-campus protesters. Real, good-faith negotiation is the path forward. First, because it is more likely to restore calm on our campus. Second, because our University, rightly, has already committed itself to upholding the principle of free expression.
(07/08/20 11:16pm)
Who We Are
(11/12/19 3:49am)
On Friday, Nov. 8, a large group of students from Fossil Free Penn disrupted the University’s Board of Trustees meeting. For half an hour, until the meeting was adjourned, they sang and chanted their sole demand: that Penn President Amy Gutmann, Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen, and Chief Investment Officer Peter Ammon agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment.
(03/16/12 4:31am)
Wharton sophomore Tania Chairez and other undocumented student activists pressing for the DREAM Act deserve our support. Their courage strengthens democratic practices within the borders of the United States. Those of us who value our inclusive society want to ensure that kind, decent people do not live in fear. No middle schooler growing up in the United States should be forced to realize that she has inherited an outsider status that separates her from the only national community she knows, as Tania has described. Our educational institutions are impoverished when inherited hierarchies divide students from one another and our neighborhoods are culturally depleted when some live in fear of being “denounced” as outsiders. People who contribute to the places in which they live, work and study are not outsiders. Passing the DREAM Act is only one step toward meaningful immigration reform, but it’s a step the country should take.
