It’s time to step up: a letter to the Middlebury College Administration

It’s time to step up: a letter to the Middlebury College Administration

Letter delivered to President Patton and members of the Senior Leadership Group. The authors ask the College to rethink the decision to allow Murray to visit and demand that the administration cancels the talk on the basis that the event conflict with the school's core values of mutual respect, academic freedom, and integrity.

Lauren Bates
Claire Contreras
Luna Gizzi
Sidra Pierson

The Campus

03/05/2020

Lauren Bates
Claire Contreras
Luna Gizzi
Sidra Pierson

"Murray’s invitation is a 'message to every woman, every person of color, every first-generation student, every poor and working-class person, every disabled person, and every queer person that not only their presence at Middlebury, but also their safety, their agency, their humanity, and even their very right to exist are all up for ‘debate.’ Your passive acceptance of Murray’s return reverses attempts at community healing and demonstrates that you have learned nothing from the past three years."

"However, we believe that it is well within your interests and duties to refuse to extend your implicit endorsement to Murray’s bigotry on the basis that this event violates the college’s three pillars of mutual respect, academic freedom, and integrity."