Faculty senate chair Tulia Falleti, emphasizing she was not speaking for the senate, urged Penn in an op-ed to follow the example of other colleges that have negotiated agreements with protesters.
Hatem Bazian, president of American Muslims for Palestine , speaks at the encampment on the University of Pennsylvania's College Green Thursday night.faculty senate executive committee Monday, members expressed differing views about the pro-Palestinian encampment but concurred that the university should work to ‘deescalate tensions’ and ‘find a negotiated resolution.’of the meeting published in the university’s almanac. No formal action was adopted, though proposals were discussed.
On Friday morning outside Falleti’s campus office at 36th and Walnut Streets, a billboard truck played a video loop of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, she wrote in her piece. But she said that what also keeps her awake at night is that the same kind of billboards were on campus last semester, which ended with the resignation of former Penn president Liz Magill after a bipartisan uproar over her congressional testimony about the university’s handling of antisemitism on campus.
Falleti wrote that she has walked around the perimeter of the encampment several times a day, every day. “As an educational community, however, we cannot move forward by silencing or censoring debate and dissent,” she wrote. “We must make room to encourage these conversations with open minds and hearts.”
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