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10 U. Students Chosen History of slavery at U. is focus of series of as SINSI Scholars Zaynab Zaman staff writer

Four seniors, five juniors and one sophomore have been chosen as members of the Wilson School’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI). This program is designed to help students gain opportunities in public service, and later work in the federal government.

The program was founded in 2006, and gives selected students both intensive academic training and work experience. It also aims to provides students with the language and work skills to do well in the public policy sphere, and work for the federal government both domestically and internationally.

While normally only five juniors are selected for SINSI, this year two groups of students have been selected as scholars. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors were allowed to apply, in addition to seniors. First-year Masters in Public Affairs students were invited to apply for the graduate scholarship, and four graduate students were accepted from the applicant pool.

This change in the selection process is most likely due to new leadership of the SINSI program. This year, lecturer of public and international affairs Frederick Barton and Kathryn Lunney co-directed SINSI for the first time. Barton formerly worked at the U.S. Department of

State as the Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations.

Lunney also worked in the federal government, working as an intergovernmental relations officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation and as the deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Kishan Bhatt ’17, Emily Chen ’17, Olivia Hompe ’17 and Nabil Shaikh ’17 were the seniors selected for the scholarship this year.

Bhatt, a Wilson School major, said that he was excited to experience the University through a new lens as a graduate student, particularly because of new mentorship opportunities. He explained that he would be joining the program without having worked for the federal government previously, and so is looking forward to exploring new avenues.

“I’ve been at a think tank and at a tech start up, both of which were connected to the policy sphere, and I think that will be something that is going to enrich my experience,” Bhatt said. “I’m open to wherever the best opportunity will be within the federal sector.”

Hompe explained that she is currently open to many possibilities, but would like to work in national security later on, hopefully with the Department of Defense, the State Department, or one of the intelligence agencies.

She noted that she is most

plays at McCarter Ruby Shao staff writer

Seven nationally recognized playwrights will create plays about the history of slavery at the University, which will premiere with the launch of the Princeton and Slavery Project on Nov. 18, 2017.

The Princeton and Slavery Project consists of research conducted by Princeton and Slavery Project Director and History professor Martha Sandweiss, University Archivist Daniel Linke, undergraduates, and graduate students. The project grew out of Sandweiss’s seminar HIS 402 / AAS 402 / AMS 412: Princeton and Slavery, which has been offered multiple times since debuting in spring 2013.

“We’ve found richer stories than I anticipated or knew

that we would be able to find,” Sandweiss said. “The really exciting part of the project now is that, unlike some other schools, we’re not just conceiving of this as a narrow academic project, but as a collaboration working with local organizations to reach broader and more diverse groups with the history that we’re uncovering,” A partnership with the McCarter Theatre Center will bring the material to the stage in the form of multiple ten-minute plays by Nathan Alan Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Dipika Guha, Regina Taylor, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ‘06, and McCarter Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann.

Linke described the partnership as unprecedented in the 15 years that he has held his position. He added that

it is the first partnership to integrate so many components. The University Art Museum will commission a display, the Princeton public schools will feature a related curriculum, the Princeton Public Library will organize programming, and the Lewis Center for the Arts will incorporate materials in classes, according to Linke and Sandweiss.

Though other schools have researched their relationships to slavery, notably Brown University in the early 2000s and Columbia University early this year, the Princeton and Slavery Project is distinctive in building community ties so as to explore the topic through more creative venues, Sandweiss said.

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August Flentje ‘92 argued Feb. 7 on behalf of the Justice Department in favor of the executive order banning immigration from seven countries in front of a panel of three judges, which included Senior Judge Richard Clifton ‘72 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Flentje, the Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, represented the Trump administration in the appeal of the case State of Washington, et. al. v. Donald J. Trump et. al., which seeks to reinforce the executive order after it was stayed by a district court. The executive order banned immigration and refugees from Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, and Somalia. On February 3, U.S. District Judge James Robart issued an injunction against the executive order, which lifted the immigration restrictions.

The Justice Department appealed the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

After the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates last week, Flentje became one of the most experienced appellate lawyers in the Justice Department (http:// w w w.kansas.com/news /local/ article131300309.htm l) .

During his tenure at the department, Flentje has participated in cases about the legalization of gay marriage and the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and majored in politics at the University, where he took creative writing classes with Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Joyce Carol Oates. He graduated from Georgetown University Law School, and worked for former Sens. Nancy Kesselbaum and Bob Dole.

“He’s a civil servant, and I think he’s been very careful,” Flentje’s dad [what is his name?] said. “We have family members protesting what’s going on, but he plays it pretty close and I think has a deep sense of duty, representing to the best of his ability the presiSee STORY page 2

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New Vegetarian Co-op to be Housed in the Pink House Mashad Arora staff writer

The Pink House plans to establish a vegetarian co-op out of its kitchen starting in the fall of 2017.

Located at 99 Alexander Street just north of the Forbes New Wing, the Pink House currently serves as special interest housing for upperclassmen. It focuses on sustainability and environmental issues. It is part of Forbes College, and the 2016-2017 academic year is the first year the house has been used in such a way.

According to a document prepared by current Pink House residents and circulated via email, the new co-op would be “an excellent way to strengthen Pink House’s sense of community and commitment to sustainability.”

The co-op will be vegetar-

ian to maximize sustainability, but meat eaters are also encouraged to join. Fees for the co-op have not yet been finalized, but they are estimated to be $400-500 per semester. Like existing coops on campus, members of the co-op at the Pink House will eat dinner together daily and will be required to take one cooking shift per week. They will also be able to use co-op ingredients to make their own breakfasts and lunches.

“Demand for co-ops has been quite large for the past few years, and we hope that this will be a resource for people who are interested in alternative eating arrangements,” wrote Gavin Hall ‘18, a Pink House resident, in an email.

He said the co-op will serve those who do not want to join an eating club but who may not want to be ful-

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“99 Alexander is fortunate to have a private kitchen, and we feel that using the kitchen as a base for a coop would be both a valuable use of the space and would further our mission of sustainability,” Hall said in the email.

Members of the co-op will not all live in the Pink House, and those living in the Pink House will not be required to be members of the co-op. According to the document, the co-op will tentatively have about 20 members, with preference being given to those living in the Pink House. The remaining spots will be filled by a lottery system, with information on that being released later this semester.

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looking forward to getting to know older SINSI scholars “They all have so much experience and knowledge, and everyone is so passionate about what their focus is in terms of their policy area,” Hompe said. “It’s a really fantastic community, so I’m just so honored to be a part of it.”

From the junior class, Caroline Jones ‘18, John (Newby) Parton ’18, Sarah Sakha ’18, Elon Schmidt-Swartz ’18, and Jordan Thomas ’18 were selected as recipients.

Sakha is the Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Prince,’ and Parton is the Head Opinion Editor of the ‘Prince.’

Jones explained that while she was excited to receive the scholarship, she initially struggled with the idea of working under the new federal administration. Ultimately, though, she decided that she would still pursue her original path.

“I would be working for the United States government, not specifically for President [Donald] Trump,” Jones explained. She added that people she would be working under are career and foreign service officers, who continue working regardless of which administration is in power. This summer, Jones will be working in the political section of the U.S. mission to the United Nations, where she will be working on a number of global security council issues. She is interested in working for the State De-

partment later on, potentially regarding matters pertaining to Latin America or EuroWestern hemisphere affairs.

Thomas noted that both the application questions and the change in federal administration pushed him to think critically about his future and his values. He explained that due to those circumstances, he had to be sure of his commitment to public work and government service.

“That was really more challenging than anything,” Thomas said.

He added that he plans to use his scholarship to focus on the education sector.

Thomas will be working in the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education this summer.

Sam Rasmussen ’19 was the only sophomore who received the SINSI scholarship. This summer, he will be working at the State Department Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on the Burma desk.

“Myanmar is undergoing tremendous changes right now, and is an important place where the U.S. and China can work bilaterally to improve the lives of millions of people,” he said in an email.

“I hope to use my knowledge of China and Confucian cultures to further this aim” He is currently backpacking in Myanmar before beginning his spring semester studying abroad at Tsinghua University in China. Rasmussen also noted that he hopes to work as a Foreign Service Officer at the State Department after graduation.

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dent within the law and the Constitution.” http://www. kansas.com / news /local/ article131300309.html The judges scheduled to review the case by phone include Senior Judge Clifton, and Judges William Canby and Michelle Friedland, also of the Ninth Circuit. Clifton was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Ninth Circuit in 2001, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 98-0. He was endorsed by former Sens. Daniel Akaka and Daniel Inouye, who were both Democrats.

Clifton is a Republican who grew up in Indianapolis and Chicago. He graduated with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1972 and from Yale Law School in 1975. Clifton then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he clerked for Judge Herbert Choy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Clifton spent his career working in Hawaii, performing business and commercial litigation at the law firm Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, where he argued cases in front of the Ninth Circuit, and serving as an adjunct professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. He was also an active member of the Hawaii

State Bar Association. Clifton took senior status on December 31, 2016, which is a form of semi-retirement. (http:// h e a v y.c o m / n e w s / 2 017 / 02 / richard-clifton-judge-ninthc i rc u it- c o u r t- o f-a p p e a l sdonald-trump-travel-immig ration-ban-hawai i-democrat-republ ican-presidentgeorge-bush/) In 2006, Clifton was one of the judges responsible for the decision to uphold the imprisonment of journalist Josh Wolf. Wolf was jailed for refusing to turn over video recordings from a demonstration in California, and served 226 days in prison longer than any other journalist in the U.S. has served for withholding materials. (htt p ://w w w.cn n. com / 2017/ 02 / 07/ pol it ic s / travel-ban-oral-arguments/ index.html) Whatever the decision of the Ninth Circuit Feb. 7, the case is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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ral vehicle for the project, she added.

“Good history and good drama both try to make a reader or a viewer empathize with other people and situations that transpired that they couldn’t experience for themselves, things that happened in the past,” she said. “But we’re dealing with events that happened a long time ago, and there are so many silences in the archives. Playwrights have the freedom to explore those silences in ways that historians can’t.”

Sandweiss said she first pitched the idea about a year ago to Mann. Instantly interested, Mann and the rest of the artistic staff at McCarter commissioned a variety of artists they admired, according to McCarter Literary Director Emilia LaPenta, who is overseeing McCarter’s side of the partnership.

They sought original contributors who explore political themes and engage with current or historical events, LaPenta said. To guarantee the representation of different perspectives, they wanted multiple playwrights, with the number seven arising from budget considerations.

Every playwright that McCarter invited said yes immediately, a fact that speaks to the importance and timeliness of the project, LaPenta said.

Telling the University’s history in full requires discussing how it related to and benefited from slavery, noted

Linke, who facilitated HIS 402 from the start by bringing relevant materials from the University’s archives to the classroom.

“If you really want to understand the whole story of Princeton, you need to understand this piece of who founded, supported, and taught at the institution, and how those attitudes played out, and also to understand that within the greater context that what’s happening at Princeton is part of a national narrative,” Linke said.

He added that the University’s official history, written in 1946, does not mention slavery. Expecting the project to yield few findings given the scarcity of surviving documents from the 18th and 19th centuries, he was surprised that new questions about old materials readily revealed answers.

Unlike Georgetown University or the University of Virginia, The University as an institution, never owned slaves. But administrators, faculty, and students benefited from owning slaves.

Those individuals then used their wealth or position to benefit the University, Linke explained.

Examples of slaveowners include donor Nathaniel FitzRandolph and the father of the University’s tenth president, John Maclean Jr. Class of 1816. FitzRandolph Gate and the Maclean House bear their names.

“The first nine presidents of Princeton all, at some point in their life, owned people,” Linke said. “How does that affect the institution and how it views and

teaches and inculcates its students?”

Furthermore, the University served as the ideological home of the American Colonization Society, founded in the 1810s to gradually emancipate slaves, but resettle all freed men in Liberia. University men, unlike those at Harvard and Yale, proliferated the ranks of the society nationally and in Southern chapters. “This movement served as an intellectual cover for people who didn’t want to see change come to the institution of slavery,” Linke noted.

He added that the material on any particular slave related to the University varies from robust to sparse. The project unearthed many details about Betsey Stockton, whose owner, a University president, released her early.

She used her literacy to serve as a missionary in Hawaii, and then returned to settle in Princeton. On the other end of the spectrum, slaves who were unable to write left only their names in the historical record.

“Princeton has always been seen as an august institution.

What was it like to be a person on the fringes of that?”

Linke said, expressing hope that the playwrights will exercise their imaginations to humanize the experience of slaves.

Sandweiss said she would like the playwrights to base their narratives on the documents, which include newspaper ads, sermons, census records, and wills. A graduate student research associate is helping each playwright by answering questions about,

for example, whether a slave would likely have done a given action, Linke said.

The playwrights came to campus for an orientation day, held three times to accommodate all schedules, during which Sandweiss gave an overview of the project and Linke presented a range of documents. The playwrights toured campus and the town to physically inhabit the space that the research concerns, LaPenta said.

Sandweiss also provided them with a list of 30 possible topics, dealing with matters such as particular places in Princeton, legality and historical institutions, and certain documents like the 1830s journal of a University student who went on to serve as a missionary in Liberia.

The playwrights will submit drafts in March. Since McCarter reached out to them in August, it limited each piece to ten minutes to ensure they could meet the deadline, LaPenta said.

Following standard practice for short staged readings, rehearsals will begin only up to two days before the performance. The short window increases affordability as well as the odds of securing better actors, who can fit the work into their busy schedules. McCarter will probably choose professional actors, including from New York and Philadelphia, because the production date is fast approaching, LaPenta explained.

“Our goal for the two days will really be to focus on the text and how to best communicate that clearly, and hopefully also add in some

elements that will make it feel like a performance and have an emotional impact on the audience,” LaPenta said.

Following an academic symposium about the project, the performances, directed by Patricia McGregor, will take place on both Saturday, Nov. 18 and Sunday, Nov. 19. After the last staging, McCarter will hopefully convene a panel of the playwrights, community members, and scholars to discuss the themes of the pieces. Beyond that weekend, the plays might continue living on in some form, according to LaPenta.

LaPenta estimated that McCarter will spend roughly $50,000 across two fiscal years for the endeavor. It received grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Mathematica Policy Research, and the Princeton University Histories Fund administered by the Office of the Provost.

She added that the material encountered through this partnership is already inf luencing the way that McCarter staff as Princeton residents and employees view their community, so she looks forward to sharing the project with more individuals.

“When we walk this campus, we are part of a long line of people who came before us, who did things, who made choices, who had assumptions,” Linke said. “We have to know our past and know it fully to be in this moment, to really understand what we’ve benefited from, why we’re here at this point in time and not somewhere else.”

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Princeton Citizen Scientists Guest Contributor

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Over the past few weeks, over 800 members of the Princeton University community, including 68 faculty members, 641 students and postdocs, and 105 researchers, lecturers and staff members, have signed a letter supporting a call for a campus-wide day of conversation and action on March 6.

This day is intended as an opportunity to put routine aside and focus our attention on learning from each other about the challenges that face us today, as well as what this means to us as a community devoted to scholarship, the use of knowledge for the common good, and the ideals of equality, diversity, freedom, democracy, and justice.

This effort is rooted firmly in the traditions of Princeton University and in the ideals of a liberal education in a democratic society. We recall the words of former University President Harold Shapiro: “universities must do all they can to ensure that students and faculty, and the society at large, wrestle with the great questions of human existence. Universities are not necessarily places to come for answers, but they are places that have an obligation to be sure that important questions are being addressed honestly, thoughtfully, and with full respect for the worth and

dignity of all people. They are also places that must try as hard as they can to exhibit, by both word and deed, an exemplary commitment to ethically informed principles, and to a set of values that enables them to meet their civic responsibilities.”

To do this, President Shapiro explained, “As educators and citizens we must search continually for the right balance between constraining the state’s power and enabling it to do its work. We must also educate a large cohort of thoughtful, responsible, and independently minded leaders capable of administering a democracy and heading the institutions that share power with it.” We seek to create an opportunity to contribute directly to this effort.

At a time when facts seem like they don’t matter, and polarizations across social and political lines create isolation, community dialogue is crucial, not only to identify the barriers and problems we face, but also to reimagine and organize solutions in line with the values of our institution. As an academic and international community, Princeton University has a unique opportunity to contribute to this conversation and set the tone for wider national and international discussion, asking ourselves what it means to be “In the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.”

In this regard, we welcome the statement by Univer-

sity President Christopher Eisgruber challenging the Trump Administration’s executive order banning entry to immigrants and others from seven majority-Muslim countries and to refugees — in which Eisgruber declared that, “If left in place, the order threatens both American higher education and the defining principles of our country.”

This is the kind of principled leadership Princeton must continue to show in the days ahead.

On March 6, we plan a coordinated day of townhall style open-mic sessions and focused teach-ins, with the morning dedicated to an investigation of our nation’s problems, and the afternoon aimed at discussions of solutions to those problems. We want this campus-wide discussion to be as welcoming as possible for all members of our community. We want to take the time to listen to one another, crossing disciplinary boundaries as well as the boundaries between professors and students.

We hope that the discussions will trigger more regular long-term campus activities and commitments.

In this spirit, we welcome all contributions from students, faculty and others, including participating in town hall sessions, leading teach-ins, or proposing topics and events for March 6.

Our goals are fourfold: 1. To defend the values of this University, including openness, diversity, scholarship, equality, and justice

when these are under challenge.

2. To affirm the essential dignity and value of every human life, and express our determined opposition to policies that threaten human well-being, including the threat or use of nuclear weapons, the undoing of climate agreements and environmental protections, and the oppression, discrimination and exclusion of people on the basis of nationality, race, gender, and identities.

3. To initiate a critical and continuing examination of proposed governmental policies, and to foster research and teaching designed to contribute to the public’s and government’s understanding of potential ways to address pressing environmental, social, economic, and international peace and security problems.

4. To find ways for students and faculty to use their understanding and expertise to help citizen groups and governments at all levels develop policies that deal constructively with these problems.

We look forward to having all members of the Princeton University community joining us on March 6 for a day of knowledge and democracy in action.

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Marni Morse

In her hearing before the Senate on Jan. 17, Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos remarked that “assault in any form is never okay,” a claim about which she “want[s] to be very clear.” Yet, despite her conviction, DeVos refused to promise to uphold the Obama administration’s provisions for how schools should handle campus sexual assault. DeVos’ actions in this respect contradict her words, comprising just one reason, among many others, why college students should actively watch the Department and fight her decrees if need be now that she has been nominated in a 51-50 vote.

For context of her statements, in 2011, the Office of Civil Rights within the United States Department of Education published a letter entitled “Dear Colleague,” which provided strong recommendations on behalf of the Obama administration for how colleges should be handling allegations of sexual assault on their campuses.

The administration based their recommendations on their interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs that receive federal funding. The law was originally intended to remedy gender inequities in sports funding, but it has since been applied

more broadly, from regulations regarding women in STEM to sexual assault and, more recently, transgender rights.

The reason behind the Obama administration’s guidance is important.

The “Dear Colleague” letter was written to address the facts on the ground about sexual assault. According to the National Institute of Justice, several studies indicate that between 18 and 20 percent of women experience rape or some other form of sexual assault while in college. Moreover, according to a piece in New York Magazine, students who experienced sexual violence in school and reported the incidents to their school administration frequently report that their cases were ignored or mishandled; this often results in unfortunate consequences, such as victims dropping out of school or developing mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Furthermore, research suggests that many people who commit sexual assault are repeat offenders; as a result, when schools do not investigate and hold students responsible for sexual misconduct, they continue to put their students at risk of assault.

In stating that she would not uphold the Obama administration’s sexual assault provisions, DeVos did not necessarily do wrong.

However, the danger in her statement lies in the fact that she does not have an

alternative plan that would be similarly focused on combating sexual assault.

DeVos gave no evidence of such a plan in her hearings, nor did she provide any real reasons for her opposition to the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter. Although it is possible that the recommendations enclosed in the letter are not doing much to improve the matter of sexual assault, the implications of the letter are still playing out and so their full effect has yet to be seen. Moreover, though DeVos, in her comments, did allude to a concern for the rights of those accused of sexual assault, the reality is that it is impossible to put a number on the percentage of accusations that are false, but there is little evidence that the rates are high or vary greatly from rates of other forms of misconduct that campuses regulate.

I would be more willing to listen to DeVos’ critique of the current system if she appeared to have given real thought to the problem, demonstrating understanding of the facts and intensity of the matter, and included alternative suggestions. Unfortunately, in her hearing DeVos does not appear to have had any such thoughts. Instead, she simply has stated that “if confirmed, [she] look[s] forward to understanding past actions and [the] current situation better.” That’s it — no substance at all.

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on sexual assault seems to depart from the statements she expressed in her hearing. Since she did not provide much substantive information in her hearing, sexual assault advocates are now being forced to look elsewhere for evidence on what her stance may be.

And what information has been uncovered isn’t very reassuring. What is known is that DeVos’ family organization has given large donations to groups that are fighting for the “Dear Colleague” letter regulations to be reversed.

DeVos is confirmed as of yesterday. But the confirmation suggests that her decision on the sexual assault guidance is still in the air, having neither outrightly promised to uphold nor withdraw the policy recommendations. Hopefully, she will educate herself and come to the right conclusion. But in the meantime, students should keep an eye on the Department of Education’s actions and continue to pressure the Department and their overseers in Congress to ensure DeVos and her department keep pressure on schools to do right by victims of sexual assault and stop rape culture.

Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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Political Scientists Oppose Trump’s Executive Order Guest Contributor

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We are signing this statement of protest against the President’s executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” of January 27, 2017. It “suspends entry into the United States,” for various periods of time, of refugees, Syrian refugees, and “aliens” without green cards from seven nations. We offer three reasons for opposing this order: As political scientists, we have committed our professional lives to the study of good governance, and the attainment of the widely shared values of human dignity, rights, and democratic engagement. Research by members of our discipline shows that people’s ability to move across borders has enabled the United States to thrive, that overreach by political leaders can undermine liberal democratic norms and practices, that hostile relations with nations with whom the U.S. is not at war can increase political violence and extremism, and that the separation of religion and state is a core commitment of the United States’ constitutional system. The executive order violates all of those established findings.

As scholars, we deplore this order’s interruption of research, teaching, and intellectual interchange at American colleges and universities. International exchanges are essential to good scholarship, and an important way for people of different cultures and political systems to engage constructively with one another.

As teachers, we deplore the interruption of study and engagement of students who are blocked by this executive order from classes at American colleges and universities. We are concerned about the order’s impact on the many students whose lives will be directly and indirectly affected by the ban.

Furthermore, this executive order teaches all the wrong lessons to our students and those coming behind them: It conveys fear, anger, governmental overreach, discrimination, and false statements.

Therefore, we urge President Trump to rescind this executive order immediately. If he does not do so, we urge the Congress to override it, the courts to issue further stays, and Americans to protest the ban on refugees and Muslim-majority nation residents. Political scientists’ research has shown that robust protest and political courage can offset the worst excesses of public officials; let us put that knowledge to use.

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