Hundreds of Indiana University faculty, students and community members gathered outside Bryan Hall Monday morning to call for the immediate resignation of IU President Pamela Whitten and Provost Rahul Shrivastav over their response to a pro-Palestine encampment at IU.
The protest, which was organized by faculty members and organizers from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition, is the latest in a growing show of dissent against Whitten's administration. A portion of Indiana Avenue was closed to vehicle traffic as hundreds of protesters filled the street outside Bryan Hall, a building near the Sample Gates where the provost’s office is located.
Faculty petition calling for resignation garners over 700 signatures
Since April 28, more than 700 signatures have been added to a faculty petition calling on Whitten and Shrivastav to resign. Shane Greene, an anthropology professor who helped to create the petition, said organizers are verifying the faculty credentials of those who sign and removing anyone who is not faculty.
“And to be clear, this is not just the ‘pesky woke radicals’ of American Studies, and history and anthropology,” Greene said during Monday’s protest. “It’s people from the Kelley School of Business, the O’Neill School of Public Policy, the Maurer School of Law. All of these people are signing it. It’s not radical. Everybody wants these people gone.”
Another petition on change.org calling for Whitten’s resignation has gathered over 2,300 signatures since April 26.