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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I want to take a moment to give our community a sense of what has transpired since my communication last Tuesday evening about the offensive Instagram account posts. Our entire admin team has been working very hard all week to hear from students, families, and staff, make decisions about how to move forward, and provide support wherever we can.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">It is inevitable that once a story like this enters the realm of outside media outlets, all nuance gets lost and rumors swirl. It is also true that we cannot provide information about specific discipline consequences issued to students. What I can say is that we have worked through our investigation and begun the process of helping students to come together and repair the harm that was done by these posts, a process that will continue throughout this week and beyond. It has been a week filled with high emotion, deep anger, and many tears. It has also been a week of surprising vulnerability, incredible resilience, and a real willingness to engage and struggle with all that has once again been brought, raw and real, to the forefront of our interactions and conversations on campus.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Social media, and its potential for great harm, is something we continue to wrestle with alongside campuses across the nation. We have chosen not to release the images from the social media account that were at the center of our investigation in this matter, and want to communicate our rationale for not doing so. We believe that to share them publicly would cause even more trauma to many members of our community, and give the ignorance contained in those posts an additional level of notoriety and power which we feel they absolutely do not deserve. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I want to close by saying that even though there are hopeful and encouraging moments from this past week, it would be inauthentic and a disservice to our Black students, Jewish students, students with disabilities, and all students who feel harmed by these posts to suggest in any way that our efforts so far have wrapped this up neatly or that we are ready to move on. Tensions on our campus are high, and in fact led to another incident on Friday afternoon in which a heated exchange between students led to a physical altercation that then became a new and troubling issue for staff and students to process. There is much work to be done, certainly, but I want you all to know that we will not waver from our commitment to create a campus culture that enables all of our students to feel safe, secure, and able to learn. Indeed, our most powerful moments this past week have come from listening to their voices as they articulate what they need in order for all of that to happen.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Thank you for your time and attention to this message,</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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