We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address
Monday, March 4, 1861

And yet anonymous you remain. How fittingly hypocritical.

Celebrate what we have accomplished together and be open minded of what the future will bring. Some of us believe that the unborn have rights some don’t. Some want to be judged by their character not color, some don’t. Some don’t know how to balance a check book, some do. Some think all Republicans are racist, others know that the Confederacy, Segregation, KKK and opposition to civil rights were Democratic with a big D.

There is no place for faculty exerting their extreme political views on students. They should be activists on their own time and with their own dime.

You know what? I prefer to listen to the wisdom of my grandparents and parents than the blather being slathered across our land into the hearts and minds of students by professors and instructors who apparently want to raise up a bunch of sissies.

My great-great-great grandmother survived both the Sand Creek Massacre and Custer’s cowardly, self-serving attack on Black Kettle’s camp at the Washita River. You know how she got from Colorado to the Washita? She did what she had to. She walked. All the way. She didn’t sit around and fret, as you all are doing. She was determine to save her family and her friends. I don’t recall her EVER establishing a student newspaper and weeping all over the pages. I’d love to know what she would have thought about people such as all of you.

My great-great grandfather was born in Mexico. He was an orphan. He heard there were people from the north–he didn’t know they were called Kiowas, apparently–who rode by his little town from time to time. The next time Kiowas rode through, he asked if he could go with them. The Kiowas gave him family and provision. Though not an ethnic Kiowa, he eventually became the Sun Dance Priest. He led the Kiowas spiritually through some of the toughest, meanest times the Kiowas ever faced. Many young and middle-aged men died while he was Sun Dance priest. He didn’t write cowardly blather in any newspaper. He faced the enemy and the times, and he advised the leaders on the survival of the Tribe. Not one word published in any student newspaper. Not one word that would bring fear into the people.

On the other side of my family, my great-great-uncle, the last Principal Chief of the Creeks (now often called the Muscogee Creeks) before Indian Territory became Oklahoma. There apparently was great expectation among the Indian Tribes that he would have been elected governor of the proposed all-Indian state, Sequoya, before the white men betrayed him and the other Indian leaders, scraping the tribes’ planning and efforts, and created Oklahoma. To this day, I watch the musical of Oklahoma (that’s O-k-l-a-h-o-m-a) with some realization that the movies and staged production, with some realization that they are a tribute to the lack of White Man’s character and integrity, and that in them, there is not one identifiable American Indian. (I don’t used the term Native America. Everyone born in America or in Oklahoma properties and property overseas, are Native Americans.) The betrayal that he and the other Indian people of now-Oklahoma, is not the only loss in his life. He warred on the side of the Confederacy as a logistics officer in the Creek Battalion. Again, after all his frustrated, even heartbreak to help better the lives of the Indian people, he pressed on, greatly beloved but not for his cowardly statements in student newspapers.

My family’s efforts on behalf the American nation go to this century. My son fought in the battles of Ramadi, and the Second Battle of Fallujah. One of the his proudest achievements was guarding the Iraqi citizens as they went to vote in the first-ever free elections in Iraq. My cousin was badly wounded in Fallujah, badly enough to end his career as a Marine. They stand as proud American citizens, not ready to be afraid in the face of difficult times, politically or militarily.

And, we will stand ready to defend America and ourselves despite the then-political climate, opposition, or optimism in American.

And, by gosh, we will do it despite the cowardly blather of America’s college professors writing in student newspapers, where they know that many of their students, turned socialistic and idiotic by their teachings, will support them.

As an Alumni (1956). I am even more comfortable with my decision to never send a dime to the “faux” so called “institution” that was once
a real College. So pathetic. R. Hoover

Sounds like a lot of BS to me. Maybe you all should wear big diaper pins to show just what big crybabies you are.

Unfortunately this is the world of academia. Well-meaning people who unfortunately can’t think for themselves. Trump is not rounding up Americans. He’s rounding up illegal Americans. If you want to protect the lives of illegal immigrants then you want to assist the lives of those criminally residing here. Trump never said he would throw out American Muslims. He never said anything negative about LGBTQ+ rights. However, the media said he did, and you believed them.

As an alumnus of Lafayette I’m extremely embarrassed, along with the bulk of the rest of the people here, that these professors are the voice of our school. Lafayette is a strong STEM school, and there is a very tiny minority of STEM professors that signed this list. I graduated with a STEM degree very recently and only know one of the professors on this list. To those professors who refused to sign and are reading this – we are with you. Higher ed is predominantly liberal, and they complain in the faculty rooms together about everything – pretending to argue both sides when they’re just sound-boarding what the media is saying off each other. Wake up. DEFCON is at its lowest level of concern. Russia and Syria want to repair our relationships. Australia and New Zealand have lauded Trump on his support in the recent earthquake in New Zealand. Canada wants to work with the US to fix NAFTA. Apple is thinking of bringing jobs back to the USA. Ford decided not to leave Kentucky after the election. The DOW made a history shattering high the day after the election.

If you can’t see the good of this election, while Trump isn’t even yet in office, then you’re being lied to by the media. If you think Trump is anti-Muslim, you’ve been lied to by the media. He’s anti illegal immigration. If you think Trump is anti-LGBT you’ve been lied to by the media. If you think Trump is anti-Mexican, again, he’s anti illegal immigrant. He’s not deporting American citizens, nor has he ever claimed to. The whining put on by this group of faculty members does not represent the ideologies of the Lafayette community at large be it current faculty,or alumni.

In the end, the fact that so many soft science professors signed this just shows to me that their views are being taught in the classroom. I’m glad the majors that bring students to the school and give it its acclaim aren’t well represented in this embarrassing letter.

I guess colleges are now purveyors of emotional cripples and social misfits instead of diverse opinions and experiences – how sad that “education” has come to mean left-wing intolerance and being oh-so-scared of the Boogeyman.
Your institution is stealing from those who pay for an education. Be ashamed – very ashamed that your staff has zero coping skills with disappointment except for inciting others to do your dirty work for you.

“dawn of fascism”. This comment seems severe as we still very much have (1) Constitutional controls on altering the government (2) Multiple political parties that openly and vehemently debate issues.

Used to blaze it up every day with Johnny Hopkins before I skipped all these professor’s classes. Glad I didn’t waste my time listening to their mindless America-hating liberal drivel when I coulda been playing guitar hero and eating Doritos. These people are part of the problem.

Fred Trump went to Lehigh. People forget that

GET BACK TO CLASS YOU DAMN KIDS