All members of the University community, including students, faculty, and alumni, have an interest in avoiding complicity in injustice, and working to ensure that the University itself avoids this complicity. We’re not Eichmann-like robots bound to defer to amoral “experts” conspicuously indifferent to considerations of justice, and conspicuously lacking expertise in it. Whether we’re members of the University community or not, we all have an interest in knowing how the University invests its endowment, and in calling out the destructive consequences of those investments. The University unapologetically invests in a military-industrial complex dedicated to militarism and does its best to conceal what it does. All of that affects all of us. So all of it is fair game. I congratulate the undergrads on having passed Referendum 5. It’s an important first step. Keep it up. Many of us are with you and will be until the end.
All members of the University community, including students, faculty, and alumni, have an interest in avoiding complicity in injustice, and working to ensure that the University itself avoids this complicity. We’re not Eichmann-like robots bound to defer to amoral “experts” conspicuously indifferent to considerations of justice, and conspicuously lacking expertise in it. Whether we’re members of the University community or not, we all have an interest in knowing how the University invests its endowment, and in calling out the destructive consequences of those investments. The University unapologetically invests in a military-industrial complex dedicated to militarism and does its best to conceal what it does. All of that affects all of us. So all of it is fair game. I congratulate the undergrads on having passed Referendum 5. It’s an important first step. Keep it up. Many of us are with you and will be until the end.