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LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Encouraging Open Dialogue on Campus
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I believe that exposing our community to a variety of beliefs — including those we might vehemently disagree with — is essential for a truly educational experience.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/leditor/)
I believe that exposing our community to a variety of beliefs — including those we might vehemently disagree with — is essential for a truly educational experience.
Today, the Cornell Undergraduate Student Body voted by a ratio of 2:1, with 46.77 percent participation, to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to divest from the following weapons manufacturers: BAE Systems, Boeing, Elbit Systems, General Dynamics, L3Harris Technologies, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX and ThyssenKrupp.
Anyways, vote for me. I won’t build a Greek life machine. I won’t.
Those endorsing divestment from arms manufacturers nobly do so in the name of peace and life. The irony, though, is that all divestment advances is war and death — and the destruction of the free world.
If the S.A. wants to abide by its own rules, this referendum must be scrapped from the ballot.
We know that you do not sign off on every speaker who comes to campus, nor should you. Nonetheless, the Provost’s letter in The Sun has put the imprimatur of University leadership on this overtly antisemitic and racist event.
In simply reporting the event, they demonstrate the worthlessness of Coulter’s ideas in a university setting as well as the problem in the administration’s understanding of “open inquiry.”
Will you pay thousands to an anti-trans speaker and then have me arrested if I speak out?
I urge you to vote in the Spring 2024 elections – not because of any candidate or office, but because of the numerous ballot initiatives we have this year.
We are inspired by our students’ principled call for divestment from businesses that profit from war and the perpetuation of massacres across the globe, most recently in Gaza.