ECAS FACULTY

Motion of No Confidence and Demand for Redress

The events of April 25, 2024, are unprecedented in the history of Emory College
and University. A peaceful demonstration was met by Emory Police (EPD) and a large
contingent of heavily armed Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol officers who used
chemical agents, electric shocks, and other measures and arrested multiple ECAS
students, ECAS faculty, and others. There was no evidence of violence on the part of
protesters, and no disruption of teaching and research activities.

What was disruptive—profoundly so—was the conduct of the University

administration that violated multiple College and University policies and is an affront to
everything Emory stands for.

The ECAS Faculty stands by the Statement of Principles of Free Expression, and
especially the right to protest and the commitment to protect that right when others
attempt to restrict it. The Faculty:

1. Condemns the decision by the administration to summon the police.

2. Condemns violence and the use of force.
3. Condemns the arrest of students and faculty.
4. Abhors the false statements by President Fenves and other members of
the administration.

Be it resolved that the ECAS Faculty expresses a vote of no confidence in President

Fenves whose words and actions do not represent the values of ECAS Faculty and the
College of Arts and Sciences.

Be it further resolved that the ECAS Faculty demands that all charges be dropped
immediately, and that the university pay all legal expenses.