On March 2, leftist protestors disrupted an event at Middlebury College, where Dr. Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute gave a speech. During the subsequent riots, Allison Stanger, a professor who interviewed Murray at the event, was hospitalized after a protestor pulled her hair and twisted her neck. As Erielle Davidson wrote in The Daily Wire, Laurie L. Patton, the President of Middlebury College, slammed the attacks against both Murray and Stanger and expressed a commitment to open discourse.
Today our community begins the process of addressing the deep and troubling divisions that were on display last night. I am grateful to those who share this goal and have offered to help. We must find a path to establishing a climate of open discourse as a core Middlebury value, while also recognizing critical matters of race, inclusion, class, sexual and gender identity, and the other factors that too often divide us. That work will take time, and I will have more to say about that in the days ahead.
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