Why doesn the petition mention Donald Rumsfeld? Isn he affiliated with the Hoover Institution?
The petition is meant to include Donald Rumsfeld, but does not mention him specifically because his one-year Distinguished Visiting Fellow position expired on September 1, 2008, and was not renewed. However, at the time Rumsfeld was appointed (September 2007), many Stanford community members signed a faculty-organized petition opposing his appointment, including all of the core organizers of Stanford Says No to War. This resulted in the Faculty Senate voting to call Hoover Director John Raisian in to answer how the appointment was made, a protest rally sponsored by Stanford Says No to War, and a campaign by Stanford Says No to War to get the Undergraduate Senate of the Associated Students of Stanford University to pass a resolution opposing the Rumsfeld appointment. Unfortunately, the resolution lost by two votes (8 in support, 5 opposed, 2 abstained; the resolution required 10 out of 15 votes to pass). A follow-up resolution was passed calling on Rumsfeld to appear before the Stanford
