No Stanford Torture

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Dear President Hennessy:

Does Stanford University condone torture?

Both America and Stanford University were founded on the ideals of the enlightenment. Our University motto is "Die luft der freiheit weht."

As one of America's greatest institutions, Stanford has a special obligation to do what is RIGHT, not what is EXPEDIENT. Stanford must act with courage and leadership to protect both the wind of freedom and the reputation of our great University.

Professor Condoleezza Rice soon hopes to return to her tenured faculty position at Stanford University. Compelling, credible reports suggest that Dr. Rice planned, approved, and ordered specific acts of torture during her absence from campus.

Torture is incompatible with being a faculty member at Stanford University.

We hereby call upon you to initiate a University investigation into the Rice torture reports.

"We reject as false the the choice between our safety and our ideals."
- President Barak Obama

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
- Benjamin Franklin

24 Signatures

  • Steven Jewell
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Alumnus, 1974
    • Comments
    • Stand up for what is right.
  • Cameron Jewell
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Alumnus
    • Comments
    • В
  • Taylor Jewell
  • Stephanie Jewell
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Parent and long time Stanford Volunteer
  • Brian Good
    • Stanford affiliation
    • B.S., Biological Sciences, 1978
  • Jennifer Jewell Thomas
    • Stanford affiliation
    • AB 1976
    • Comments
    • No support for institutions that condone torture
  • David D. Thomas
    • Stanford affiliation
    • alum (BS, PhD)
    • Comments
    • I am beginning to be proud of my county again. I want to be proud of my University, too.
  • Annie Wilkinson
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Alumnus
    • Comments
    • В
  • Zeb Thomas
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Alumn
    • Comments
    • В
  • Todd Snyder
    • Stanford affiliation
    • University Staff
  • John Shafer
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Cancel Condi's trip to Uof Calgary May 13
    • Comments
    • www.warcriminalsout.com
  • Stephen F. McPherson
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Summer Qtr., '71 & '73, Admitted to Class of '76 (declined)
    • Comments
    • Rice has disgraced Stanford, her country and herself.
  • Dwight V. Moore
    • Stanford affiliation
    • B.S., Math 1967
    • Comments
    • Rice's protestation about not supporting torture is no more credible than Bush's
  • chris baker
  • Harvey La Tourette
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Alumnus, Class of '67
  • Ravi Iyer
    • Stanford affiliation
    • ex-student in Extension program
  • Sriram Gopalan
  • Ann Hall
    • Stanford affiliation
    • MBA - 1989
  • antolin agatep
    • Stanford affiliation
    • former SCPD student
  • Philip Sullivan
    • Stanford affiliation
    • BA '66
  • Jeremy Hoffman
    • Stanford affiliation
    • Class of 2007
    • Comments
    • don't reward incompetence; the Iraq invasion was the most mismanaged blunder in modern US history, and they mislead us in order to do it
  • Nancy Mills
    • Stanford affiliation
    • PA Prog Grad 1980
  • ronald long
    • Stanford affiliation
    • A.B. psychology '74
    • Comments
    • В
  • Greg Cameron
    • Comments
    • I'm a very well-educated man and stand by this absolutely. Torture is wrong. Always wrong.