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I too would like to be added in supporting this letter. Thanks Gerard and Alison.
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<div>On May 1, 2024, at 11:35 AM, Bjorn Smars <smars@uoregon.edu> wrote:</div>
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I, too, would like to sign an open letter. Thank you, Gerard, Alison, and anyone else involved in crafting this message.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, May 1, 2024 11:07 AM<br>
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students and it concerns me deeply.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</a>>
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<b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 10:53</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">AM<br>
<b>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Pedro Garcia-Caro <<a href="mailto:pgcaro@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">pgcaro@uoregon.edu</a>>, Senate President <<a href="mailto:senatepres@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">senatepres@uoregon.edu</a>>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</a><<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</a>>,
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Betina Lynn <<a href="mailto:betina@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">betina@uoregon.edu</a>><br>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Agreed, Pedro. I’d be happy to support an open letter.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Pedro Garcia-Caro<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, May 1, 2024 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Senate President <<a href="mailto:senatepres@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">senatepres@uoregon.edu</a>>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</a>;
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Betina Lynn <<a href="mailto:betina@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">betina@uoregon.edu</a>><br>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thanks so much for your response and your leadership in this. Can you please add my signature to your letter (perhaps leader and/or leadership could
be removed to allow for all members of the senate to support and thus strengthen the statement?) </span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, May 1, 2024 10:06<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</a>>;
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">As University of Oregon Senate Leadership members, we support faculty, staff, and students' right to protest peacefully. In
fact, the Senate just passed an updated UO University<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech</b><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>policy on March 13, 2024. The policy begins with an important statement:
“1.1 WHEREAS the essential values of Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech are bedrock principles of the University of Oregon...” The updated policy improves and clarifies our university’s stance on the importance of these critical principles. These principles
are pillars of our university’s core academic mission, both to our students and our public mission to the State of Oregon and the world. You can find the policy here:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">As Senate and University leaders, we are deeply concerned by the actions taken across the country to forcefully remove and arrest students who peacefully gathered in non-disruptive ways to exercise
their freedom of speech. Such actions undermine the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and academic freedom and the value of critical expression in our community at the University of Oregon. As Senate Leadership, we take a proactive stance, advocating</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background: white;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for
respectful dialogue and constructive engagement to address the issues being raised by the Gaza Solidarity Camp.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background: white;">We urgently and unequivocally call upon the University of Oregon administration to not just acknowledge but actively uphold the rights of all members of
our academic community to express themselves peacefully. Furthermore, we strongly urge the administration to engage proactively with the Gaza Solidarity Camp members, seeking collaborative and peaceful solutions to pave the way forward. No member of our university
community should feel intimidated while on our university grounds. Senate leadership has been working tirelessly with President Scholz and Interim Provost Ford to express this fundamental point and to seek ways that our Senate’s mission of maintaining the
University’s academic integrity is protected while also seeking means of supporting the rights of free speech and the safety of<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all our students, faculty, and staff.<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background: white;">Let’s unite as a Senate and university community in an authentic dialogue to seek ways to move forward positively and productively.<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background: white;">Dr. Gerard Sandoval, UO Senate President</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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