This letter was sent to Brown University President Christina Paxson and other members of the University administration, condemning the school’s three-month-long “interim” suspension of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as a stifling of student speech, and calling for immediate reinstatement of the group pending formal proceedings by the Student Conduct Board.
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