Word: petitioners
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For Jesse Jackson it was a visit laden with symbolism. Eighteen years earlier, the black leader had dodged police horses and clubs with Martin Luther King Jr. on the bloody civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. An apoplectic Governor George Wallace had closed the capitol, which brazenly flew a...
A similar petition, signed by more than 1600 students, protests not only the academic influence of the research center, but the broader implication it casts on the university's political position.
The student petition calls for "an open and reasoned debate among the Stanford community as to the proper role, if any, of the Hoover Institute at Stanford."
The existence of a partisan organization whether liberal or conservative within the university raises grave questions concerning academic independence," reads a section of the petition signed by 69 Faculty members.
Many have charged that the institute's participation in partisan politics is hurting Stanford's reputation for academic impartiality. Two protest petition drives one organized by students, the other by faculty have taken place.