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Claremont Iron Front
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We thank President Gabrielle Star for her letter of October 2023
The CMC administration declined to make a statement, citing institutional neutrality, We thank the CMC faculty for the 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 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.”
Regarding the Pomona faculty-led letter of _ we have three questions:
We call on faculty and student groups to join us in recognizing Nisan/Vaisakha as the first month of Aviv/Spring and an Asian heritage first month of the year
Regarding the suspension of seven students, reported in the NYTimes 19th April 2024: we ask for suspension of at least one faculty member for every three students, for having incited and justified this type of militant intifada, else the students are bearing disproportionate punishment for the historical ignorance, antiJudaism, and moral error that they were taught by their professors. https://tsl.news/20-student-protesters-arrested-at-pomona-college/ 5th April https://tsl.news/pomona-college-faculty-votes-to-pass-resolution-condemning-college-over-250-7c-community-members-walkout-for-divestment/ https://tsl.news/opinion-dear-pomona-college-administrators-masked-protestors-arent-a-danger-to-our-community-but-you-are/
https://www.pitzer.edu/president/decision-on-college-council-recommendation/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/pomona-college-palestine-gaza-activism