Below is the public statement that we submitted to the Daily Pennsylvanian for publication on Monday, November 18, 2002. It was signed by 166 faculty and staff members.
A CALL TO THE COMMUNITY TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
MEETING AND TEACH-IN
On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 — Huntsman Hall F85, 4:30 - 6:00 PMWe the undersigned members of the faculty and staff at the University of Pennsylvania invite students, faculty, staff, and our neighbors in the Philadelphia community to join us in expressing profound opposition to the Bush administration's threatened war on Iraq.
The Bush administration has:
- FAILED to demonstrate any connection between a war on Iraq and the attacks of September 11, 2001;
- REFUSED to share with us the true costs of such a war — in loss of life and resources for both innocent Iraqis and Americans — should an invasion of Iraq take place; and
- ALARMED us with its new doctrine of "preemptive" and "unilateral" action in military affairs, leading us to fear for America's moral standing within the global community.
Before the administration launches such a war in our names, a war that will increase rather than decrease the threats to our national security, we invite members of the University and Philadelphia communities to a meeting to share their concerns regarding the impending war on Iraq and hear experts on the Middle East, military strategy, and geopolitics discuss the probable consequences of a war.
Penn Faculty and Staff Against War on Iraq
- Asif Agha, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Hillary Aisenstein, Penn Program for Public Service
- Rajeev Alur, Professor of Computer and Information Science
- K. Faith Anderson, Bibliographic Assistant, Acquisitions, Van Pelt Library
- C Edwin Baker, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law
- Sandra T. Barnes, Department of Anthropology
- Dana L. Barron, Associate Director, Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender
- Joan Bauer, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
- Greg Bear, Staff, Van Pelt Library
- Nancy Bentley, Associate Professor, Department of English
- Robert Berkowitz, School of Medicine
- Sharon Black, Librarian, Annenberg School for Communication
- Derk Bodde, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies
- Sharon Bode, Senior Language Specialist, English Language Programs
- Benjamin Bressman, IT Support Specialist, School of Medicine Information Services
- Joshua Brooks, Lecturer, English Language Programs
- Gary Bronson, Operations Manager, The Christian Association
- Deborah Burnham, Associate Director of the Writing Program
- Leslie D. Callahan, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
- Laurie Carroll, Acting Assistant to the Curator, Asian Section, University Museum
- Eric Cheyfitz, Clara M. Clendenen Term Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of Law
- Zachary Christman, University of Pennsylvania Museum
- David Cohen, Interlibrary Loan, Van Pelt Library
- Erin G. Cross, Associate Director, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center
- Peggy Curchack, Associate Director, Career Services
- Beverly Dale, Executive Director, Christian Association
- Robert Davis, Staff Van Pelt Library
- Earl Dax, Administrative Assistant, Civic House
- Joan Dayan, Faculty, Department of English
- Sheila Dickson, Urban Studies Program
- Thomas Donaldson, Professor, Wharton School
- Mindy Ehrhart, Germanics Department & Slavics Department
- Darlene Evans, Lecturer, Department of English and Graduate School of Education
- Susan J. Feathers, Director, University of Pennsylvania Law School Public Service Program
- Steven Feierman, Professor of History & Sociology of Science and Professor of History
- Mike Felker, CIS/SEAS
- Margaret D Fichter, Counseling and Psychological Services
- Lydia Fisher, Lecturer, Department of English
- Jessica Fishman, faculty, Annenberg School for Communication
- Marcy Francis, Minister of Healing, Christian Association
- Francine R. Frankel, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India
- Diane Dailey Frey, Director of Academic Services, College of Arts and Sciences
- Ty A. Furman, Coordinator of Student Performing Arts
- Vivian Gadsden, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
- Nicola Gentili, Center for Italian Studies, Center for Film Studies
- Rev. William Gipson, University Chaplain
- Larry Gross, Sol Worth Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication
- David Grossman, Director, Civic House
- David Grazian, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Nancy Gulsoy, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
- Beth Hagovsky, Senior Associate Director, Wharton Undergraduate Division
- Kathleen Hall, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
- Andre Harris, IT Specialist, School of Medicine
- Susan Harte, Campus Minister, The Newman Center
- Richard Hendrix, Director, College of General Studies
- Edward S. Herman, Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School
- Ulrike Heuer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Amy Hillier, Research Associate, Cartographic Modeling Lab
- Nancy J. Hirschmann, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
- John Hogan, Biddle Law Library/AFSCME Local 590
- Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Director, Middle East Center
- Amey Hutchins, Public Services, University Archives
- Sarah Igo, Assistant Professor, Department of History
- Francis E. Johnston, Department of Anthropology
- Janna Kane, Administrative Assistant, College Office
- Sampath Kannan, Professor of Computer and Information Science
- Amy Kaplan, Professor of English
- Adria Katz, Keeper, Oceanian Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Alice Kelley, Assistant Director of Academic Advising, The College
- Delphine Khanna, Librarian, Van Pelt Library
- Sanjeev Khanna, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science
- Carolyn A. Kidder, staff, Van Pelt/Dietrich Libraries
- Heather Kilmer, Associate Director, Civic House
- Daria A. Kirjanov, Lecturer, Slavic Department
- Mary Kirk, Wharton Alumni Affairs & Annual Giving
- Anne Kringel, Senior Lecturer, Law School
- Anthony Kroch, Professor of Linguistics
- Demie Kurz, Co-Director, Women's Studies
- Catherine A. Lacey, Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Education
- Andrew T. Lamas, Urban Studies Program
- Robin Leidner, Associate Professor of Sociology
- Howard Lesnick, Fordham Professor of Law
- Beth Lewis, Assistant Professor and Clinician Educator, School of Social Work
- Karen K. Lewis, Professor of Finance, Wharton School
- Meg Lewis, Assistant to the Directors, English Language Programs
- Walter Licht, Associate Dean and Professor of History
- Ritty Lukose, Graduate School of Education
- Catriona MacLeod, Associate Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Millicent Marcus, Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Center for Italian Studies. Department of Romance Languages
- Mitch Marcus, Professor, Computer and Info Science
- William M. Martin, Business English Programs Coordinator, ELP
- Carolyn Marvin, Frances Yates Professor of Communication, Annenberg School
- Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Associate Professor, Wharton School
- Sheila Mayne, Language Specialist, English Language Programs
- Justin C. Mazur, Associate Director for Admissions and External Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences
- Barbara McAleese, Web Designer, Department of Information Services, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Professor, South Asian Studies
- Anne R. Mickle, House Dean, Stouffer College House
- Jennifer S. Milligan, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Penn Humanities Forum
- Lisa Minetti, Language Specialist, English Language Programs
- Vanessa Moses, Greater Philadelphia High School Partnership
- Carol Muller, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Music
- Melissa Muth, Director, Core Systems and Networking, Wharton Computing
- Jacob Nachmias, Professor Emeritus of Psychology
- Sarah Nachmias, Desktop Computing Services, SAS Computing
- Alice Nagle, Associate Director, Student Disabilities Services
- Andrew Norris, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Eric W. Orts, Professor of Legal Studies and Management, The Wharton School
- Stefanie Ostfeld, staff, School of Medicine
- Gary Otteson, Staff, Van Pelt Library
- Felicity Paxton, Lecturer in Women's Studies and Faculty Fellow, Stouffer College House
- Kathy Peiss, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History
- Chuck Pfeffer, Newman Hall Catholic Student Center
- Mecky Pohlschroder, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Gerald Porter, Faculty, Dept of Mathematics
- Bill Poser, Lecturer in Linguistics and Research Associate
- Stephen Preston, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
- Robert W. Preucel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Curator of North American Archaeology
- Wendell E. Pritchett, Assistant Professor of Law
- John L. Puckett, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Associate Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
- Daniel Pulley, Minister of Social Activism, Christian Association
- Susan Quant, Data Analyst, ISC Data Administration
- Kristine Rabberman, Senior Assistant Dean, College of General Studies
- Simon Richter, Associate Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures
- James Riedel, Language Specialist, English Language Programs
- Rodney Robinson, Associate Director, Student Life
- Ludo Rocher, W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies, Emeritus
- Rosane Rocher, Professor of South Asian Studies and Director, Asian American Studies Program
- Ilene C. Rosenstein, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services
- Robert Romanchuk, Mellon Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum
- Kevin Rounsley, Program Coordinator, Wharton Undergraduate Division
- David Rudovsky, Senior Fellow, Law School
- Beatrice Santorini, Lecturer, Linguistics
- Rachael Schechter, Library Clerk, Acquisitions Department, Van Pelt Library
- Dina Schlossberg, Faculty Supervisor/Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Robert L. Schuyler, Associate Professor/Associate Curator, Anthropology & U Penn Museum
- Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies
- Stephanie Sesker, Intensive Program Coordinator, English Language Programs
- Yen Ling Shek, Program Coordinator, Pan-Asian American Community House
- G. Richard Shell, Thomas Gerrity Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Management
- Kerry Sherin, Director, Kelly Writers House
- Cheryl Shipman
- Louise Shoemaker, Professor Emerita, School of Social Work
- Kenneth L. Shropshire, David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School
- Marilyn Silberberg, Counseling and Psychological Services
- Robert Silverman, Library Clerk, Serials Department, Van Pelt Library
- Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Matthew Snyder, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Terry Snyder, Associate Director, University Archives and Records Center
- Dannia Southerland, Social Work Mental Health Research Center
- Susan Stewart, Regan Professor of English
- Deirdra Stockmann, Penn Program for Public Service Coordinator
- Marni Baker Stein, Coordinator of Distributed Learning, English Language Programs
- Peter Steiner, Professor of Slavics
- Albert Stunkard, School of Medicine
- Thomas Sugrue, Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology
- Mary Summers, Fox Leadership Program and Department of Political Science
- William J. Swiggard, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
- Jay C. Treat, IT Director, Instructional Computing, SAS Computing
- Jo-Ann Verrier, Vice Dean for Student Services, Penn Law
- Ingrid Waldron, Professor, Department of Biology
- Krystyna Warchol, Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies, The Annenberg School for Communication
- Marvin Weaver, University libraries
- Patrick Wehner, Writing Program and Department of English
- Karen Weidel, Assistant Dean, College of General Studies
- Liliane Weissberg, Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities
- Mark West, Mgr., Administration & Finance, School of Engineering
- Kim-Eric Williams, Director, Swedish Program
- Lucy Williams, American Section, University Museum
- Irene Wong, School of Social Work
- Dan Yoshida, SAS Computing
- Kareem Zaghloul, School of Medicine
(Organizations given for purposes of identification only)