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Wait till facts are known
As a member of the UC Davis community, and one of the few specialists on higher education policy on campus, I would like to comment on the calls for Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign. I find these both unseemly and premature.
In the first place, although we all agree that the violence against peaceful student demonstrators was abhorrent and despicable, there is no evidence that Chancellor Katehi either ordered or anticipated this conduct.
Law enforcement protocols forbid the use of pepper spray or other dangerous force against peaceful demonstrators. Chancellor Katehi states that she specifically ordered police not to use force against the demonstrators. Unless and until an investigation establishes the contrary, we owe her the courtesy of taking her statements at face value.
Beyond this, UC and other institutions of higher learning have a lamentable history of countenancing attacks on female and minority administrators when things go wrong. There are numerous examples in our recent history. White males do not, as a rule, receive the same treatment. Before we participate in this piling-on of demands to resign, we should take a collective deep breath and back off until all the facts are known.
Cristina González
Davis
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