Chancellor Linda Katehi
November 22, 2011
UC Davis
Dear Chancellor Katehi:
Having a heavy heart and substantial deliberation, we the undersigned faculty from the UC Davis physics department give back this letter indicating our insufficient confidence inside your leadership and with your prompt resignation within the wake from the crazy, unnecessary, and brutal pepper squirting episode on campus Friday, November. 18.
The reason why with this are the following.
The demos were nonviolent, and also the student encampments posed no threat towards the college community. The final results of delivering in police in Concord, Berkeley, New You are able to City, Tigard, and Dallas must have brought you to definitely exhaust other options before turning to police action.
Permitting pressure following a day of encampments comprises a gross breach from the UC Davis concepts of community, particularly the resolve for calmness: We affirm the best of freedom of expression inside our community and affirm our resolve for the greatest standards of calmness and decency towards all.
Your response as a direct consequence of those occurrences has unsuccessful to revive rely upon your leadership within the college community.
We now have appreciated your leadership throughout these difficult occasions on trying to maintain and enhance excellence at UC Davis. However, this incident and also the inadequacy of the reaction to it's already irreparably broken the look of UC Davis and triggered the faculty, students, parents, and alumni of UC Davis to get rid of confidence inside your leadership. At this time we're feeling the best factor that can be done with this college would be to take full responsibility and resign immediately. Our campus community warrants a new beginning.
Sincerely,
Andreas Albrecht (chair)
Marusa Bradac
Steve Carlip
Hsin-Chia Cheng
Maxwell Chertok
John Conway
Daniel Cox
James P. Crutchfield
Glen Erickson
Chris Fassnacht
Daniel Ferenc
Ching Fong
Giulia Galli
Nemanja Kaloper
Joe Kiskis
Lloyd Knox
Dick Lander
Lori Lubin
Markus Luty
Michael Mulhearn
David Pellett
Wendell Potter
Sergey Savrasov
Richard Scalettar
Robert Svoboda
John Terning
Mani Tripathi
David Webb
David Wittman
Dong Yu
Gergely Zimanyi
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