Peter Rosnick

Sharing the video of Professor Rosnick violated the Honor Code — and our community standards

BY CHLOE JENSEN '20

This past Friday, a Mount Holyoke student sent a video to alt-right conservative website, The College Fix. This video featured professor Rosnick urging his students to vote, and in doing so, consider the lives of minorities and women.

In response to Wayne Lela’s letter to the editor

BY MARYA JUCEWICZ '17

This week Mount Holyoke News received a letter to the editor from Wayne Lela regarding the presence of “ignorant liberal bigots” who practice “sleazy discrimination” against conservative students and faculty on college campuses. In his letter, Lela urges students to welcome “intellectual diversity” to their campuses and suggests that colleges should institute affirmative action for the purpose of hiring conservative professors.

Freedom of speech is not a partisan issue

BY ARIANE GOTTLIEB '20

By now, everyone in Mount Holyoke has likely heard the story of professor Peter Rosnick. The math professor gave a short speech to his class about the importance of voting, and, though he offered no endorsement, every student understood that he supported Hillary Clinton. Unbeknownst to Rosnick, the speech was filmed and distributed to conservative outlets, causing massive backlash against the school on social media.

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