A Petition in Support of the Faculty and Students at the University of Puetro Rico

Here.  Professor Rosado Haddock explains:

[The]  petition [is addressed) to a member of parliament in charge of educational affairs. [I]t essentially states the following:

1. that the government should look for funds for the university elsewhere and not in the pockets of the students;

2. that the president, the chancellor and the president of the Board of Directors should resign;

3. that the police should completely abandon the university, since the presence of the police and military police, and the use of brute force that they represent are incompatible with the rights to free expression, free creativity and to the search for knowledge;

4. to allow the university to continue being the center of free expression and the acquisition of knowledge it has been up to this day;

5. to help maintain the tradition of academic excellence that the University of Puerto Rico has represented for the Puertorrican nation;

6. to help avoid the educational and cultural catastrophe to which the UPR is presently conducted, which would be a shame for everybody;

7. to help defend the university from external interests, both political and economic, that menace its autonomy, the ethical principles on which it was founded and the constitutional rights of the Puertorricans, as well as the universal rights of each and every citizen of the world.

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