Faculty letter to U. admin calling for VP Calhoun’s resignation

May 03, 2024 1 min read

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Guest Contributors
Daily Princetonian

Excerpt: We, the undersigned faculty members and academic staff at Princeton University, write this letter to condemn your repression and vilification of Princeton students and other community members currently protesting and engaging in civil disobedience in solidarity with Palestine.

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Elizabeth Bogan
Elizabeth Bogan

May 11, 2024

Rochelle Calhoun
It is so disappointing that cancel culture has penetrated Princeton’s faculty and staff. Expressing disagreement with Executive Vice President Rochelle Calhoun is part of free speech, but wanting to cancel her job by calling for her to leave her position is the usual nasty cancel culture of the left.
I spent 30 years as a member of Princeton’s faculty and without doubt Rochelle Calhoun is the finest administrator I knew. Rochelle always had the student’s best interest in mind and was fair to everyone. Princeton is so lucky to have her.
In addition, the petition says taking over buildings is a fine tradition. I strongly disagree. It was a miserable experience to be a graduate student at Columbia in the spring of 1968.

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