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"We write as members of the Law School faculty concerning the Faculty Senate’s call, in its May 7 resolution, for 'the University to request that all charges against the demonstrators be dropped' in connection with the May 1 police action on our campus."
UB’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution this past week criticizing UB President Tripathi’s disproportionate response to peaceful anti-war protests on May 1. The resolution passed with 35 faculty senators voting
Nine hundred, 1,000, 1,500, 1,800, 2,600, 3,500, 4,600, 5,000, 5,900, 6,500. The fatality figures, with which no one can keep up, are augmented every few hours with another twenty here and thirty there as this building or that is brought down in a cataclysmic burst of fire, smoke, and rubble. Three or four hundred people — or more — are being killed every day.
I am far less concerned for the status of university presidents than I am for the safety and welfare of university faculty and, above all, students; there is more than academic freedom at stake.
PepsiCo has invested €39m ($41m) in its manufacturing facility in Ireland after completing a €127 million investment in the same site in May.