The Cornell AAUP Chapter has been closely following the reporting that Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff hit students with his car following an interaction with them. We have viewed the videos of the incident released by Students for a Democratic Cornell and by Cornell University. We are deeply concerned by the seeming discrepancy between the president's email statement and the video evidence. We are also troubled at the possibility that the president used a campus-wide email to get ahead of a potentially damaging story, characterizing the students’ behavior in quite damning language while excusing his own. 

Given the seriousness of the situation, we call for an independent fact-finding investigation. As part of that investigation, we believe President Kotlikoff should respond to the following questions regarding his interactions with the students and whether his choices then and after model the sort of conduct that we expect from........

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