Hampton University Students Face Disciplinary Hearing Dec.2 For Protest

**Update**
12/2, 11pm: No students were expelled – 5 of the 7 students were
given 20 hours community service. Clearly the widespread protest had an impact. It
is still outrageous that these students were punished at all.  [click here for more]

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7 students at Hampton University are facing possible expulsion at a
disciplinary hearing this Friday (12/2) for organizing protests on Nov. 2nd.

Read the statement
below, sign it, and circulate it widely. (To add your name to this
statement, email youth_students@worldcantwait.org with your name and
description as you want it to appear).

Demand
that the 7 students facing expulsion be cleared of any disciplinary
measures and intimidation and punishment for student protests stop!
Contact the Vice President for Student Affairs (Dr. Bennie McMorris) at 757-727-5264 or bennie.mcmorris@hamptonu.edu, the Dean of Men (Woodson Hopewell Jr.) at 757-727-5303 or woodson.hopewell@hamptonu.edu, and the Dean
of Women at 757-727-5486 or jewel.long@hamptonu.edu.

Check out press coverage of this outrageous attack on students. [click here]

Press release available. [click here]

Read an article by 2 Hampton students facing expulsion called ”
Corporate Plantation: Political Repression and the Hampton Model”. [click here]

Read excerpts from letters in support of Hampton Students. [click here]  

Click here to listen to a radio interview with a Hampton Student facing expulsion for political dissent.

Drop the Charges and Stop the Harassment Against the Hampton University Students Against the Bush Regime!

Azibuike Akaba,
Class of ’81 Hampton University

Srinidhi
Anantharamiah, PhD, Professor of Economics and Humanitarian Activist,
Executive Director, Hindus for Peace and Justice, Melbourne,
Florida*

Nellie Hester Bailey,
Executive Director, Harlem Tenants Council, Inc* and Troops Out Now Coalition*

Helen Benedict, Columbia
University*

Rev. Dr. Kathleen A.
Bishop, President, Fillmore Seminary*

Dorsey O. Blake,
Presiding Minister, The Church for The Fellowship of All Peoples*

Ruth Bloch,
Professor, University of California,
Los Angeles*

Michael Casaus,
National Organizer and coordinator, world bank bonds boycott, Center for
Economic Justice*

Amber Chenevert,
Chicago, IL– B.S. Marketing–, Hampton
University classs of 2002

Simone Craig,
1996 Hamtpon University
graduate

Dr. Ralph L. Crowder,
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Hampton
Class of 1969, UC Riverside, Hampton University

Sister Mary Ann
Cunningham SL, Board Member, National Coalition of American Nuns*

Anirudda Das, Columbia
University, NY*

Laura Dawson,
fashion designer, political and environmental activist

Carl Dix,
National Spokesperson, Revolutionary Communist Party

Michael Eric Dyson,
author, “Is Bill Cosby Right?”

Barbara Ehrenreich,
author, “Nickled and Dimed”

Deborah Eisenberg,
Writer, University of Virginia*

Nina Felshin,
curator and writer

John Gerassi,
Author and Professor of Political Science, CUNY*

Frances Goldin,
Literary Agent

Robin A. Griffin,
Counselor and Hampton alum

Robin A. Griffin,
Counselor and Hampton alum

Michael D. Hersh,
Legal Department, California
Teachers Association/NEA*

Sr. Adrian M.
Hofstetter, environmentalist and author

Anita Hollander,
East Coast National Chair, AFTRA Performers with Disabilites*

Wythe Holt,
University Research Professor of Law Emeritus, University
of Alabama School
of Law*

Dorothy Hoobler,
Writer, PEN*

Bruce Jacobs,
Author: “Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White
Americans”

Fred Jerome,
co-author Einstein on Race and Racism

Carole Joffe,
Professor of Sociology, University of
California, Davis*

Henry S. Kahn, MD,
Professor Emeritus, Emory University
School of Medicine*

Walda Katz-Fishman,
Howard Univeristy & Project South*

Emily Kawano,
Executive Director, Center for Popular Economics*

Robin D. G. Kelley,
William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies, Columbia
University*

Michael Kimmel,
Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook*

Melondy Knight, Hampton
Alumni Class of 1997

Allen Lang,
National Student Organizer, The World Can’t Wait ( Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Elinor Langer,
writer, The Nation, teacher, Pacifica
University*

Aimara Lin, Not
In Our Name*

Tom Luce,
President, Hurah, Inc. – Human Rights Accompaniment In Haiti*

Chokwe Lumumba,
Chair, New Afrikan Peoples Organization

Chiseko M.
Matambanadzo, Professor of African, African American, and World History,
Slippery Rock University
of Pennsylvania*

Harriet Matthews,
Parent of Graduate, Hampton University*

Charles W. McKinney,
Morehouse, ’89 Assistant Professor of History-Rhodes
College*

Charles W. McKinney,
Assistant Professor of History, Morehouse Class of 1989, Rhodes College,
Morehouse College

Michael A. Meeropol,
Chair, Department of Economics, Western
New England College,
Springfield, MA*

Robert Meerpol,
Executive Director, Rosenberg Fund
for Children*

Arnold Mesches, Artist and Professor of Art,
Univ of Florida/Gainesville*

Rev. Orloff W.
Miller, Minister, Unitarian Universalists*

Lyn Miller-Lachmann,
Editor-in-Chief, MultiCultural Review*

Minister Robert
Muhammad, Hampton Institute (University) Class of 1978, Southwest Regional
Minister of the Nation of Islam*, Houston, Texas*

Jill Nelson,
journalist/writer

Efia Nwangaza,
Executive Director, African American Institute for Policy Studies &
Planning*

Jean Nyland, Ph.D.,
Department Chair, Psychology/Sociology, Notre Dame de Namur University*

Adriana Pierre, Hampton
University Alum Class of 2004

Jeremy Pikser,
screenwriter, “Bullworth”

Katha Pollitt,
writer, The Nation*

Gareth Porter,
Historian and author

Sara Powell, Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs*

Judy Richardson,
Senior Producer, Northern Light Productions, Eyes on the Prize*

Ajamu Sankofa,
Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility, New
York*

Wendy Schroell, Pacifica
Foundation Board of Directors

Molly Simpson,
NPR*

Donald H. Smith,
Ph.D., Past President, the National Alliance
of Black School
Educators*

Gloria Steinem,
Author, activist

David Swanson,
Co-Founder, After Downing Street

Nancy Talanian,
Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee*

Paul C. Taylor,
Morehouse, ’89 Chair of Philosophy at Temple
University*

Sunsara Taylor,
writer for Revolution, Co-Initiator of The World Can’t Wait ( Drive Out the
Bush Regime!

Rodger Taylor,
co-author Einstein on Race and Racism

Barrie Thorne, University
of California, Berkeley*

Carole S. Vance, Columbia
University*

Alan Wallach,
Professor of Art History and American Studies, College
of William and Mary*

Harvey Wasserman,
Bexley, OH

Lawrence Weschler,
director, New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU*

Claudia Zaslavsky,
Author, Africa Counts

Howard Zinn,
Historian and Author

MORE ACADEMIC SIGNERS INCLUDE:

Wesley Abbott, Retired Professor, Los Angeles City College*

Angela Ards, Ph.D. Candidate, English Department, Princeton University*

Electa Arenal, Professor Emerita, Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian
Literatures & Women’s Studies Certificate Program, CUNY/Graduate Center*

Nina Auerbach, John Welsh Centennial Professor of History and Literature, University of Pennsylvania*

Eleanor J. Bader, adjunct, Kingsborough Community College & Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY*

Judy Baker,
William Paterson University*

Sara Baker,
Professor of English, University of Tennessee*

Davarian Baldwin, Boston College*

Rosemary A. Barbera, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Social Work Department, MonMouth University*

Jodi Barnes,
PhD student, Department of Anthropology, American University*

Jennifer Baumgardner, author, “Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and
the Future”

Rosalyn Baxandall, Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY Old Westbury*

Mike Beilstein, Chemist, Oregon State University*

Philip L. Bereano, Professor, University oif Washington*

Iris Berger,
Chair of History Department; Professor of History, Africana Studies, and
Women’s Studies, SUNY University at Albany*

Edget Betru,
Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional
Rights* 

J. Herman Blake, PhD, Professor Emeritus Sociology, Iowa State University

Susan Bordo,
University of Kentucky*

Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa
Barbara*

Dr. Paul Brewer, Professor of Music, Aquinas College*

Leslie Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Washington University of St.
Louis*

Joan C. Callahan, Professor, Department of Philosophy & Director, Women’s Studies
Program, University of Kentucky*

Terence Cannon, former Revson Fellow, and Oakland Seven anti-Vietnam War conspiracy
defendant, Center for Legal Education, CCNY*

Colin Cavell, Ph.D., University of Bahrain*

Katherine Charron, Assistant Professor of History, Iowa State University*

Kiren Chaudhry, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Eva Cherniavsky, Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Washington*

John P. Clark, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University New Orleans*

Jan Clausen,
Writer and Brooklyn-based peace activist

Ms. Marti Copleman, Esq.

Altha J. Cravey, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill*

Richard Curtis, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University*

Jill Cutler,
Assistant Dean, Yale College*

Dr. Baji Daniels, Writer and educator

Mary Beth Day, Hamilton College*

Trane DeVore, Foreign Visiting Lecturer of Language and Culture, Osaka University*

Ellen Carol DuBois, Professor of History, UCLA*

Karen Durbin, journalist

Joseph W. DuRocher, Public Defender Emeritis, Orlando, Florida

Beva Eastman, Associate Professor, William Paterson University and New Jersey City University*

Carolyn Eisenberg, Professor of History, Hofstra University*

Kathy Engle,
poet, creative/strategic consultant, KickAss Artists

Michael Erickson, Artist

Judith Ezekiel, Universite de Toulouse le Mirail*

Michael Frank, Professor of Cooperative Education, LaGuardia Community College*

Jane Franklin, Historian and Writer

Daniel Freudenberger, Los Angeles, screenwriter

Hanna Frisch, Ph.D.

Barbara Garson, Author, MacBird

Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University*

Leah Geier,
University of Delaware*

Ty Geltmaker, Ph.D., historian/author

Barbara Gold, Hamilton College*

Peter Goodwin, Professor, University of California, berkeley*

Cam Gordon, City Council Member-elect, Minneapolis, Second Ward

Deborah A. Gordon, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Women’s Studies, Wichita State University*

Joan L. Griscom, Ph.D., Lexington, MA*

Maurice Hamington, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Indiana*

Curtis Harper, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Director of
Graduate Studies – Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill*

Jane Hilberry, Professor of English, Colorado College*

Enid Howarth, PhD

Gerard Huiskamp, Associate Professor, Wheaton College*

Karen James,
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania Undergroun Railroad Network, Bureau of Archives and
History

Dr. Rachel A. Jennings, University of Texas
at San Antonio*

David E. Johnson, Associate Professor, Old Dominion University

Barbera Joseph, SUNY Old Westbury*

Louis Kampf,
Prof. emeritus of Literature, MIT, Cambridge MA*

Aron Kay,
Yippie! Pieman

Jesse Elliott Kayan, President, Global Justice League, St. Mary’s College of Maryland*

Lisa Kazmier, PhD, Indiana University of PA*

Michelle Kelly, writer and fashion designer, 1995 Hampton University Graduate

Bea Kreloff,
director, Art Workshop International*

Anne Lacsamana, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, Hamilton College*

Laura K. Landolt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, Virginia Wesleyan College

Robert Launay, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University*

Paul Lauter,
Allan K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College*

Llia Lawrence, screenwriter

Claudia Leight, Counselor, Morgan State University*

Andrew Libby, CUNY Comparative Literature

Christopher Lowe, Adjunct Professor of History, Portland State University*

Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Judy MacLean, Author

Carolyn Magid, Bentley College*

Corlita Mahr, People’s Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition*

Larry Mamiya, Paschall-Davis Professor of Religion and Africana Studies, Vassar College*

Dr. Joseph Martos, Bellarmine University*

Henry Matthews, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture,
Washington State University*

Dr. Pancho McFarland, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chicago State University

Alexander McGregor, Doctor of History, Rio de Janiero*

Janice McLane, Morgan State University*

Dr. Meta Mendel-Reyes, Director, Center for Excellence in Learning Through
Service, Associate Professor of General Studies, Berea College*

Carolyn Micklem, Director, Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. (black writers’ workshop)*

Kerby A. Miller, Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia*

John Miller,
Wheaton College*

Leslie Miller-Bernal, Professor of Sociology, Wells College*

Judith Mitchell, former counselor, Columbia University*

Carl Moos,
Ret. Assoc. Prof., SUNY Stony Brook

Tiyi Morris,
Professor of History, DePauw University*

Khalil G. Muhammad, Ph.D., Indiana University – Bloomington*

Stan Nadel,
Professor of History, University of Portland—Salzburg
Austria Program*

Andrew Norris, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Northeastern Illinois University Students
Against the War, Student Group,
Northeastern Illinois University*

Cara O’Connor

Stephen O’Connor, Author, Orphan Trains

Maeve O’Donovan, Assistant Professor of History, Department of Philosophy, College of Notre
Dame of Maryland*

Mariana Ortega, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, John Carroll University*

Stephen Orvis, Professor of Government, Hamilton College*

Alicia Ostriker, Professor, Rutgers University*

Judith Papachristou, Faculty Emeriti, Sarah Lawrence College*

Arthur Paris, Sociology Department, Syracuse University*

Ted Pearson,
President, Lincoln
Park Neighbors
United for Peace, Chicago

Thomas Perreault, Syracuse University*

Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, University of CA,
Professor, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center*

Dwight R. Platt, Emeritus Professor of Biology, Bethel College*

Nancy S. Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor, Hamilton College*

Aishah Rahman, Professor, Brown University*

Marilyn Richardson, Writer, Arts Consultant

John Ripton,
Adjunct Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University*

Sonia Jaffe Robbins, freelance writer and editor

Monique Roelofs, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hampshire College

Ellen Cronan Rose, Editor, jml: Journal of Modern Literature, Temple University*

Ruth Rosen,
Professor Emerita, U.C. Davis*

Ann Rosenthal, UC Davis Researcher, UC Davis*

Hanan Sabea,
Assistant Prof. of Anthropology and Africana and African American Studies, University of Virginia

E. San Juan, Professor, Philippines Cultural Study Center*

Seth L. Schein, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis*

Herbert Shapiro, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Cincinnati*

Falguni A. Sheth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political
Theory, Hampshire College

Dr. Evie Shockley, Department of English, Rutgers University*

Alix Kates Shulman, writer

Arnold Silverman, Professor of Sociology, Nassau Community College, SUNY*

Prof. Vicky Steinitz, College of Public and Community Service, Universit of Mass/Boston* (retired)

John Streamas, Writer and Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University

Meaghan Sutton, Hamilton College*

Daniel Szyld, Professor, Temple University*

José A. Tapia, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Michigan ILIR & School
of Social Work*

Crystal C. Taylor, Princeton
University, NJ*

Lisa Tessman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Director of
Graduate Studies in Philosophy, SPEL, Binghamton University*

Kaedden Michael Timi, President & Founder, Earth Peace Systems &
the JCCC Renewable Energy Society*

Edward Tripp, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University*

Dr. Susan Udin, Professor, SUNY Buffalo

Lise Vogel,
Professor Emerita, Rider University*

Kirt von Daacke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Lynchburg College*

Norm Wallen,
Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University*

Naomi Weisstein, Professor Emerita, SUNY at Buffalo*

Jacqueline Wilkotz, Professor, Towson University*

Charles Wilson, Cleveland Institute of Art*

Marcia Wilson Brown, Esq., Vice Provost for Student and Community Affairs, Rutgers University at Newark*

Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College*

Gary Witherspoon, Professor, University of Washington*

E. Victor Wolfenstein, Professor of Political Science, UCLA*

Laura X,
Women’s History Library*

MORE SIGNERS INCLUDE

Lois Kampf

Liza Ahnland

Kelley Anderson

Alan Barysh,
Perfomance poet/president, Gimme Shelter Productions

Jonathan Beiler

John Burns

Matthew Burton-Kelly, St. Lawrence University*

Gary Caganoff

John W. Castor, leftist progressive patriotic gadfly

Eric Cimino,
Ph.D. candidate, History departmant, SUNY Stony Brook*

C.M. Concepcion, Ph.D. student, University of Glasgow*

Donna Cooper

Jamie Cosumano, teacher

Martin Damskov

Dan Denov

Brian Depaul

Peter Gaffney

Peter Grant,
journalist

G. J. Gwynn

Karen Hall,
Another American for free speech and peaceful dissent

Louise Halperin

Kenneth Hittel

Rychelle Hooper, Spelman College‘ 91*

Beth Irikura, student, University of Hawaii*

Sarah Johnson

Elizabeth Johnson, Food educator and activist

P. Kinsman

Norman Laughlin

Robert Lawrence

M. A. Mcclain

Anjana Mebane-Cruz, Ph.D.

Anne Meneakis

Patrick Monk, RN Hospice case manager

Antonia Montana

Garrett Mumma

Siskanna Naynaha, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Washington State University*

Bruce A. Newberg

Susan O’Hara

Lynn Pinckney

Bret Polish,
high school U.S. history teacher

Lavon Rice,
writer

Phyllis Sato

Martha Seeger, student, Mt. Holyoke College*

Laura Sider,
University of Pennsylvania*

Les Simon

Junios Ricardo Stanton

Carol Slyce Stovall

Clement Truitt II

Tom Warhol,
photographer

Ardis White

M. Douglas Wray

Pep Xaus,
Free lance cultural manager

*affiliations for identification purposes only