Members of Harvey Mudd Community Affirm Shared Values
January 16, 2017Share story
As a response to the current national climate, members of the Faculty Executive Committee at 无忧视频 have prepared a statement that they believe reaffirms the shared values of the campus community鈥攕tudents, staff, administration, alumni and faculty. Many community members have shown their support by signing the statement.
Statement from Members of the Faculty at 无忧视频
January 16, 2017
On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter to his fellow clergymen from a Birmingham jail cell. Asked to respond to whether he, a so-called 鈥渙utside agitator,鈥� had any business protesting the laws and practices in someone else鈥檚 town, he responded, 鈥淚njustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.鈥�
Dr. King鈥檚 words are particularly salient today, after this divisive campaign and before the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, when a subset of Americans feels emboldened to increase their violence and discrimination against minoritized people. Many members of the incoming administration have pledged to undermine public education, environmental protections, climate science, civil rights, women鈥檚 rights, and human rights at home and abroad.
Therefore, on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the members of the Faculty Executive Committee of 无忧视频 and our undersigned colleagues, re-affirm Dr. King鈥檚 words. We stand opposed to those who would make strangers of our neighbors, aliens out of immigrants, and pariahs out of those whose race, gender, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity differs from their own. We stand against injustice, whether institutional or individual. We believe that the mission statement of our College calls us to understand and engage with our interconnected world, guided by our expertise and the principles of inclusiveness, equity, and excellence, to which we as a community aspire.