College Instagram campaign features sanctioned student protester, reviving Murray tensions

College Instagram campaign features sanctioned student protester, reviving Murray tensions

The Middlebury Instagram included a picture of a student protesting the Charles Murray visit in order to promote the culture of student activism on campus. "This action resulted in a lot of backlash from current and former students who accused the college of attempting to rewrite a painful chapter of its history for marketing purposes". This is demeaning to the extent that the administration went to in order to sanction and punish 74 students involved in the protest.

James Finn

The Campus

04/26/2020

Cora Kircher ’20- Student
Austin Kahn '17.5- Student who was depicted in the Middlebury Instagram post

"'Funny that you would punish students for protesting and then use their protest as part of a [sic] big advertising ploy,' wrote Cora Kircher ’20"

“'The funny thing is that after these protests, Middlebury launched an investigation where they used images like the one neatly featured on their account to discipline dissidents among the student body and intimidate sympathetic faculty,' Kahn wrote on his own Facebook page Thursday in a post that has since been shared 26 times."