The petition in support of Belgrade students started at Rutgers University

The members of the Center for Russian, Central and WEast European Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey support your efforts to restore the rule of law in your country and abhor the violence that has been inflicted on your fellow students and demonstrators. We have circulated your plea for support as best we can on our listservers.

Gerald Pirog
Associate Director

Dear colleagues,
We send you a message of support signed by postgraduate students and professors from several Universities. We shall continue collecting signatures.

In view of the recent events in Serbia, and in compliance with the autonomy of the university and academic freedom, We fully support the Student Protest of 1996 of the Belgrade University. We are aware that these protests have been taking place daily, since November 20th, immediately after the results of the local elections have been annulled. We will continue to follow closely the events in Belgrade, as well as in other cities of Serbia. We demand that, in future, what is remaining of independent media in Serbia not be in any way obstructed in informing the public of the events; moreover, that all the media in Serbia be encouraged to do their work within their professional duty. We strongly urge that no force, police or other, be used against the demonstrators, who proclaim and only exercise their right to non-violent protesting.
  1. Dorothy Weaver, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  2. Lauri E. Naranch, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  3. Keith Timko, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  4. Florence Serafin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  5. Renne Baigell, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  6. Ann Graham, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  7. Linda Posluszny, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  8. Regina Akopian, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  9. Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  10. Joanna Regulska, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  11. Harriet Davidson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  12. Barbara Balliet, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  13. Gerald Pirog, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  14. Diana Neumaier, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  15. Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  16. Nadine Taub, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  17. Linda Zerilli, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  18. Susan Carroll, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  19. Cynthia Daniels, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  20. Barbara Callaway, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  21. Daniel Goode, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  22. Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  23. Debra Schulz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  24. Judit Bodnar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  25. Elzbieta Olender-Dmowska, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  26. Karen Shelby, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  27. Liz Felter, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  28. Rachelle Brooks, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  29. Melissa Brown, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  30. Nikcol Alexander, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  31. Rose Corrigan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  32. Emily Renaud, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  33. Ann Snitow, New School for Social Research, New York
  34. Magdalena Iwanska, New School for Social Research, New York
  35. Nanette Funk, City University of New York
  36. Tania Rands, Princeton University
  37. Michel Rifkin-Fish, Princeton University
  38. Julie Mostov, Drexel University, Philadelphia
  39. Irena Grudzinska Gross, New York University
  40. Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
  41. Mitchell Cohen, City University of New York
  42. Dick Howard, State University of New York at Stonybrook
  43. Jean Cohen, Columbia University
  44. John Mason, New York University
  45. Thomas Mermall, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  46. Gayana Juwkeld, Baruch College, City University of New York
  47. Herr Perr, Hunter College, City University of New York
  48. Leo Raditsa, New York University
  49. Mimi Bluestone, New York City
  50. Susan Goodman, psychoanalist
  51. Lisa Heldke, Philosophy, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter
  52. Professor Douglas Allen, Department of Philosophy, University of Maine
  53. Richard Schmitt, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence
  54. Prof. John P. Clark, Loyola University, New Orleans
  55. Richard T. Peterson, Philosophy, Michigan State University
  56. Marlene Gerber Fried
  57. David Theo Goldberg, Director and Professor, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
  58. Tom Digby, Philosophy Program, New England College, Henniker
  59. C. George Caffentzis, Associate Prof. of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine
  60. Donald Levy, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  61. William M. Sherzer, Modern Languages, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  62. Leo Ray Ingle, M.D.
  63. Trent H. Hamann, Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture, Binghamton University
  64. Omar Dahbour, Ohio University, Philosophy
  65. Ofelia Schutte, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida
  66. Sonia Jaffe Robbins, adjunct professor of journalism, New York University
  67. Molly Nolan, Department of History, New York University
  68. Nel Noddings
  69. Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University
  70. Barbara A. Reeves-Ellington
  71. Christina Crowder, Central European University, Programme on Gender and Culture, Budapest
  72. Fred Evans, City University of New York
  73. Ed Agro, Boston, Peacenet Balkans Desk
  74. Prof. Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder
  75. Barton Meyers, Brooklyn College
  76. Marlene Alter, New York City
  77. Manuela Dobos, College of Staten Island, New York City
  78. Tabor Fisher, Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture, Binghampton
  79. Thomas E. Wartenberg, Department of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
  80. Jordy Alexander Rocheleau, New York
  81. Prof. Alison M. Jaggar, Philosophy, Director of Women's Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
  82. Nadia Bokhari
  83. Leslie Hill, New School for Social Research, New York
  84. Mariamm Chamberlain, National Council for Research on Women
  85. Helena Gibbs, Dept. of Comparative Littterature, New York University
  86. Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Network of East-West Women
  87. Gosia Tarasiewicz, Network of East-West Women
  88. Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University
  89. Ariel Fernandez, Rutgers University
  90. Kathryn Russell, Associate Professor SUNY - Cortland, Dept. of Philosophy
  91. Richard W. Miller, Cornell University
  92. Janos Marton, New York City
  93. Herb Perr, City University of New york
  94. Edward Kent, Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  95. David Coady, New York City
  96. David Laibman, City University of New York

We would like to express special gratitude to prof. Nanette Funk who collected the greatest number of signatures from New York.

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