CALL TO ACTION!

Help fight this assault on nature, academic freedom and indigenous rights!
“School” is in session, and construction/destruction of Bernard Field Station could begin as early as summer 2001!
Corporate sponsorship of biotechnology, the patenting of life, indigenous rights, and the rape of the environment concern us all.

TELL THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS THAT YOU OPPOSE THE KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE, and that KGI IS BAD FOR THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES!

Important points to make:

The Claremont colleges will suffer from negative association with biotechnology, a controversial new science receiving increasingly negative press in Europe and America, and with KGI’s sponsoring corporations.
The nature of KGI goes completely against the principles of the independent liberal arts education that has put Claremont on the map.
The people have spoken! Claremont values Bernard Field Station (and LA needs the open space); KGI is decidedly unwelcome.

You might mention that this bad press is already happening; the Inland Valley section of the LA Times (10/21/2000; "Nader Stumps in Valley," Rene Luna) reported on Nader's criticism of KGI: "Nader encouraged students to oppose the planned Keck Institute, saying that biotechnology is a 'technology ahead of its science.' He added that by courting corporate sponsorship of the school and having graduate students and professors sign confidentiality agreements, the proposed college would be little more than a research and development department for big business." (Read the full text of Nader’s speech.) "KGI has also received negative press in the internationally read Earth First! Journal. Read that article.

If you are a high school student, you might want to consider telling the presidents how your image of the Claremont Colleges has been adversely affected by their stance on KGI and the BFS.

Call or email the following people and have your voice heard today! (Please CC any emails you send to stopkeck@wildmail.com, so we can keep track of how we're doing! If you receive a response, we'd appreciate it if you'd forward it to us as well)

Brenda Barham Hill: Chief Executive Officer, Claremont University Consortium
(909) 621-8026
bhill@cuc.claremont.edu

Peter Stanley: President, Pomona College
(909) 621-8131
Peter_Stanley@pomona.edu

Steadman Upham: President, Claremont Graduate University
(909) 621-8025
steadman.upham@cgu.edu

Nancy Bekavac: President, Scripps College
(909) 621-8148
(909) 607-2514
president@ad.scrippscol.edu
 
Jon Strauss: President, Harvey Mudd College
(909) 621-8120
(909) 621-8121
jon_strauss@hmc.edu
 
Marilyn Massey: President, Pitzer College
(909) 621-8198
(909) 607-2690
marilyn_massey@pitzer.edu
 
Pamela Gann: President, Claremont McKenna College
(909) 621-8111
president@mckenna.edu