In Defense of Student Who Pied Friedman

On April 22, Brown University student Molly Little threw a pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in protest of his pro-war, pro-corporate views, and the prominence he receives in promulgatin... continue reading »

897 signatures Goal: 5,000
All Signatures (897 total)
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Kathy W 7 October 2001
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Ura H 5 October 2001

"This student gets extremist cranks like Norman Finkelstein to address the university and considers it okay to physically assault a speaker with whom she disagrees."

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Evan Y 30 August 2001
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Brian L 25 August 2001

"The punishment is quite obviously disproportionate to the offense. Institution or Affiliation Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program, The University of Texas at Aust"

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Christian P 25 August 2001

"I didn't realize that Brown is so keen to suppress and punish dissenting political expression. That's too bad. Institution or Affiliation Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dowling College, NY"

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Roger L 5 August 2001
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Maria L 4 August 2001
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Mary M 24 July 2001
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Phil Christian 23 July 2001

"Pieing a person that supported, by his actions, the death of 4000 Americans and a million Iraq's, displaced 2.5 Million Iraqis is being too nice to Freidman! Brown's should be a shamed of themselves for punishing her. They should give her an award her for"

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Greg H 13 July 2001
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Vale C 7 July 2001
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Arthur R 28 June 2001

"Please allow the student to matriculate at Brown"

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Josh R 20 June 2001
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Christopher R 19 June 2001

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Derek J 18 June 2001

"This is a black eye for Brown and a telling sign of where its administration's priorities truly lie."

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Sam S 20 May 2001

"Brown does not need to be vindictive"

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Clark H 20 May 2001

"Friedman is a fascist tool and deserves cake in his face for all the lies that result in human slaughter."

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James W 10 May 2001

"This is an embarrassment to the principles of American higher education! Institution or Affiliation Newcastle University (UK)"

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Mark C 10 May 2001

"The corporatists must stick together otherwise they are lost. Reinstate this student. Institution or Affiliation Oberlin College, Class of 1970"

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Emlyn A 2 May 2001

"Educational institutions should concern themselves only with the education of their students, not meting out capricious and arbitrary punishments. Institution or Affiliation The California Institute of the Arts"

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Joe L 28 April 2001

"Pies don't kill; wars do. Do something about war Institution or Affiliation Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace"

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Alan Meyersab 26 April 2001

"THIS IS SHAMEFUL AND UNACCEPTABLE - as a Brown alumnus, I am delighted that one of our own engaged in this act of harmless political theater. Are you the same administration who allowed me and my classmates to get full credit for our unfinished courses wh"

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Edward P 20 April 2001

"A student that is more than a sheepeople, how radical. Sorry, the educator's term is critical thinking but it must be within "our" box. It is probably true that this is an indication that this student will not do well within a corporate structure. What ca"

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Elliot I 20 April 2001

"В Institution or Affiliation Harvard College"

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Donna S 6 April 2001

"This punishment seems extreme."

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