We the undersigned, all members of the NYU community, call upon you, President Clinton, to withdraw from speaking at the inauguration of the NYU/Abu Dhabi campus. We are aware that this inauguration coincides with the graduation of the first class of NYUAD; and this is a matter of regret, as we believe the students there deserve to celebrate the fruits of their hard work---but not at the expense of those who have built their campus.

Indeed, given the horrific treatment of those workers, as recently reported by the New York Times and other sources, and given that the legal culpability for such abuse has yet to be determined, we urge you to cancel your appearance on that campus, rather than legitimize the scandal there.

Adam H. Becker, Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, Faculty Senator

Ernest Davis, Professor of Computer Science

Hasia Diner, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies

Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication

Marie Monaco, Associate Professor, School of Medicine

Robert Riccobono, Adjunct Professor, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis

Stephen Rechner, Admin. Aide, School of Law;President, Union of Clerical, Administrative &

Technical Staff at NYU (UCATS)

Christine Harrington, Professor of Politics and Law

Peter W. Rea, Associate Professor of Film & TV

Aaron G. Jakes, PhD candidate, History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies

Rachel Nolan, PhD candidate, History

EmmalaGelman, PhD candidate, American Studies

Carlin Wing, PhD candidate, Media, Culture and Communication

Christy Thornton, PhD candidate, History

Jessica Feldman, PhD candidate, Media, Culture and Communication

Lana Povitz, PhD candidate, History

Matt Shutzer, PhD candidate, History

AroVelmet, PhD candidate, History and French Studies

Amy Smiley, Adjunct Lecturer, Silver School of Social Work

Patrick Deer, Associate Professor of English

ManijehMoradian, PhD, American Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis

Jim Uleman, Professor of Psychology

Liz Fink, PhD candidate, French Studies and History

Jeff Goodwin, Professor of Sociology

Timothy J. Reiss, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

Brett Gary, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication

Angela Zito, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies

John M. Archer, Professor of English

Molly Nolan, Professor of History

Evan Spritzer, PhD Candidate, Department of History/Institute of French Studies

Chris Rzonca, Adjunct Instructor, Liberal Studies Program & NYU Unit Chair, ACT-UAW Local 7902

David Bosch, PhD Candidate, FAS Psychology C&P Program

Michael Rectenwald, Professor of Global Liberal Studies

Janet NajuAhn, PhD candidate of Social Psychology

Chadly Stern, PhD student, Psychology

Kaitlin Noss, McCracken Doctoral Fellow, Social and Cultural Analysis

Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor, Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School

Dana Polan. Professor, Cinema Studies, TSOA

Linda Gordon, Professor, History

Ann Pellegrini, Professor, Performance Studies & Religious Studies

Greg Grandin, Professor, History

Steven Lukes, Professor, Sociology

Emily Barnett, President ACT-UAW Local 7902

Sylvia M. Gonzalez, Adjunct Faculty, ALI, School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Priscilla Karant, Master Teacher, School of Continuing and Professional Studies

E.L.Doctorow, Glucksman Professor of English and American Letters

Wendy Yuen Ting Chen, PhD candidate, Media, Culture & Communication

BertellOllman, Professor of Politics

Sarah Zarrow, PhD Candidate, History/Hebrew & Judaic Studies

Carol Bergman, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Paul Kershaw, PhD candidate, History

Mary Helen Kolisnyk, Liberal Studies Program

Kevin Vavasseur, Graduate Student, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Lizzie Olesker, Adjunct Faculty, Open Arts Department, Tisch

Anna McCarthy, Professor of Cinema Studies

Moss Roberts, Professor of East Asian Studies

Ernesto Semán, PhD candidate, History

Frances Peace Sullivan, PhD candidate, History

KianaKarimi, M.A. Candidate, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Rebeccah Friedman, PhD candidate, History

ShimaHoushyar, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Eve Meltzer, Associate Professor of Visual Studies, Gallatin School

Ajay Maindiratta, Assoc. Prof. of Accounting, Stern School of Business

ConcettaSebastiani, Senior Lecturer, Italian

Sally Guttmacher, Professor, Public Health

Zadie Smith, Professor of Creative Writing

Herbert Samuels, Professor, School of Medicine

OraLee Branch, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine

Kerry Walton, Associate Professor, School of Medicine

MoyaLuckett, Faculty, Gallatin School

Ahmed Ferhadi, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Susie Linfield, Associate Professor, Journalism

Christopher Crowe, ADRSS Clerk, Bobst Library, VP UCATS

Rob Lesko, Admin. Aide, SCPS; Secretary UCATS

Kim Musler, Admin. Aide, School of Law; Shop Steward UCATS

Linda Wambaugh, Union Organizer UCATS

John Singler, Professor of Linguistics

Salvatore J Fallica,Adjunct Faculty, Media, Culture and Communication

Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Spanish and

Portuguese, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Rosalyn Baxandall, Distinguished Teaching Prof, American Studies, SUNY

HalaHalim, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies

Pam Crabtree, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Claudia Sofia Garriga Lopez, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Department Of Social

and Cultural Analysis

Ned Seeman, Professor of Chemistry

Jeanne Fox-Friedman, Clinical Associate Professor of Art HistoryMcGhee Division

School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Judith Chazen Walsh, Alumna, SCPS 1995

Valentina Van de Weghe, Sophomore at Gallatin

Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History

Barbara Weinstein, Professor of History

Jini Kim Watson, Associate Professor, English

ArangKeshavarzian, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Manu Goswami, Associate Professor, History

Bambi B. Schieffelin, Professor, Anthropology

Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication

Emanuela Bianchi, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature

Dennis Geronimus, Associate Professor of Art History

Miriam M. Basilio, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies.

Deborah Hecht, Faculty, Grad Acting TSOA (recently retired)

Gordon Pradl, Emeritus Professor, Steinhardt

VasukiNesiah, Assoc. Prof. of Practice, The Gallatin School

Dylan Monahan, Alumnus, Sociology

Lisa Duggan, Professorof Social & Cultural Analysis

Ada Ferrer, Professor of Histroy

Gary Anderson, Professor, Educational Leadership, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and

Human Development.

Jasmin Smith, library asst., Bobst Library; Shop Steward UCATS

Sophia Wellington, Adjunct Faculty, Tisch Asia

Todd R. Disotell, Professor, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology

Ana Dopico, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Efrain Azmitia, Professor of Biology, Psychiatry and CNS

Eugène Nicole, Professor of French

Nancy F. Regalado, Professor of French (retired)

Paul Rackow, Alumnus, Stern School of Business

Nancy Eder, Admonistrator (retired), Italian Studies

Warren Jelinek, Professor, School of Medicine

Pamela Cowin, Professor, School of Medicine

Paul Funkhouser, Class of 2014, member of Disorientation

Freda Ding, Class of 2014, member of Disorientation

George Georgiadis,Class of 2014, member of Disorientation

Jesse Landy, Class of 2014, member of Disorientation

Riley O'Neil, Class of 2014, member of Disorientation

Anna Takada,Class of 2014, member of Disorientation

Bella Mirabella, Associate Professor, Gallatin

Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology

AvitalRonell, University Professor of the Humanities

Sam Pollard, Professor, UGFTV/Tisch School of the Arts

Emily Martin, Professor of Anthropology

Crystal Parikh, Associate Professor of English

Howard Besser, Professor of Cinema Studies

Elaine Freedgood, Professor of English

Susan Carol Rogers, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Claudie Bernard, Professor of French

Herrick Chapman, Associate Professor of History

ChristophBregler, Courant, Professor ofComputer Science

MehryarMohri, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Rachael Wilson, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of English

Miriam Frank, Master Teacher, Liberal Studies

Joseph Rebovich, Clinical professor (retires), Stern School of Business

Robert Cacharani, undergraduate student

Lila Urda, Graduate Student in Gallatin

Stephanie Kiceluk, Master Teacher, Liberal Studies

Alan Sokal, Professor of Physics

Magdalena Sabat, PhD candidate, Media, Culture and Communication

Lev Tatz - Alumni Class of 2010

Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis

Caitlin MacLaren, Gallatin Class of 2014

Randolph Mowry, Steinhardt, Applied Psychology

Jane Liu, Graduate student, GSAS

Sylvia Molloy, Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities Emerita and Professor of Spanish and

Portuguese