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-We thank President Gabrielle Star for her letter of October 2023
+President Gabrielle Star for her letter of October 2023 condemning the "terrorist attacks", which aroused the opposition of Pomona protestors.
+[[https://www.pomona.edu/administration/president/statements?page=1|List of Official Statements by Pomona College]]
+[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H8YRo1rsmvMvljJ4D5ZUagJVKUjucAql/view|Letter regarding ASPC referendum on Divestment]]:
+"As this vote unfolds, I call on our community to treat each other with care, and to refuse personal attacks as we affirm who
+we are at our best.
+My concerns about the referendum are deep, and come down to not only who I believe we are, but how I believe we should
+tackle difficult questions.
+The referendum seeks to reduce a complex moral issue to a series of yes or no questions. It threatens to undermine our
+community in its diversity, and divides us by offering a set of one-sentence litmus tests for justice.
+The referendum provides no path for informed debate or discussion while offering as settled “definitions” a set of highly
+debatable and hotly contested propositions, and thus ignores the principles of good governance and the educational mission
+of our community.
+For many years now, the only nation on which ASPC has focused its activity is the world’s only Jewish state. This singling
+out of Israel raises grave concerns about the referendum's impact on members of our community.
+For this reason, and even though I know our students do not intend this, the referendum raises the specter of antisemitism .."
 The CMC administration declined to make a statement, citing institutional neutrality, We thank the CMC faculty for the [[https://5255e4db-a8f6-497e-b8e2-3c19e5c3c8cb.usrfiles.com/ugd/5255e4_1d6e1b483b4b4e548323f9b14e2fa401.pdf|letter authored by Lenny Fukshansky and signed by 65 faculty]]
 When asked to explain CMC’s neutrality policy, Chief Strategic Communications Officer Megan Jordan cited the [[https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/KalvenRprt_0.pdf|University of Chicago’s Kalven Report]]. In February 2023, the CMC Board of Trustees endorsed the report, which is supposed to guide the college’s “role in political and social action.” The Kalven Report states that a university “is a community which cannot take collective action on the issues of the day without endangering the conditions for its existence and effectiveness. There is no mechanism by which it can reach a collective position without inhibiting that full freedom of dissent on which it thrives.”