Philip Gasper, Ph.D.

David A. Caputo
President
Pace University
New York City, NY
president@pace.edu

Dear President Caputo:

Universities are supposed to be institutions that protect and encourage free speech. So why are you threatening two of your students, Brian Kelly and Lauren Giaccone, with disciplinary action and possible expulsion, for speaking out against US militarism, distributing flyers and holding antiwar meetings on campus?

How sad, in fact how shameful, that at a time when civil liberties in this country are under attack from a government that not only continues to conduct an illegal and immoral war, but which is also apparently planning new ones, that Pace University should be threatening students with the courage to speak out against these crimes.

I urge you to drop the charges against Kelly and Giaccone immediately and to at least pretend that your campus has a genuine commitment to free expression.

Sincerely,

Philip Gasper, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religion
Notre Dame de Namur University
Belmont, California