Etchemendy won't sign Condi petition

A student from Stanford Says No to War (SSNW) asks Stanford Provost John Etchemendy to sign a petition regarding Condoleezza Rice at a meeting of Sustainable Menlo Park on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

More about SSNW at http://antiwar.stanford.edu/

Transcript:
Student: Hi, I have a question for the provost. I am a current Stanford student right now and I am part of a group called Stanford Says No To War and we have a petition online with over 1,200 signees, both professors and students, etc. It reads thusly: "We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held accountable for any serious violations of the Law (including ratified treaties, statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities." Do you agree with this statement and will you sign our petition? And if not, which part of this statement do you disagree with?

John Etchemendy: No, I won't sign the petition. Do I agree with it? I'm not going to speak as an official of the university. I have no views on that. As an individual, maybe I do. I won't sign that and I think you should understand the university has no business entering into an issue like that. If a faculty member... you police the faculty member's research conduct that's an appropriate thing for a university to do. We do not enter into issues about what faculty do when they're on leave. We certainly don't when they're serving their country. So, I don't know why I should have a view on that or why the university should be expected to have a view on that.

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