Some faculty members and students are continuing to call for the removal of University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell. An open letter to gauge suppor
t for a no confidence vote had around 300 signatures, as of Friday evening. UT Austin has 3,000 teaching faculty. t for a no-confidence vote had around 300 signatures, as of Friday evening. UT Austin reports having 3,000 teaching faculty.
The University’s decision to not allow yesterday’s event to go as planned was made because we had credible indications that the event’s organizers, whether national or local, were trying to follow the pattern we see elsewhere, using the apparatus of free speech and expression to severely disrupt a campus for a long period. Consistent with this broader movement that is impacting so many, problematic aspects of the planned protest was modeled after a national organization’s protest playbook.
Perrine is a safety monitor at Friday’s campus gathering. She says Hartzell needs to start listening to student demands to divest from companies manufacturing weapons for Israel. “Nobody wants to walk on campus and hear hate speech on their way to class,” said UT student Caroline Ginsberg.
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