YOUR ACTIONS HAVE INFLICTED SERIOUS DAMAGE NOT JUST ON ONE SCHOLAR; THEY HAVE SET YOUR UNIVERSITY ON AN UNSUSTAINABLE COURSE CHARTED AGAINST ELEMENTARY CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES These are words from a letter (url below) sent by the Center for Constitutional Rights to the chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Phyllis M. Wise (217) 333-8819 - pmischo@illinois.edu] decrying Professor Steven Salaita's summary termination "based on the content of his constitutionally-protected speech critical of Israeli government practices in recent weeks." Having reached 8,500 signatures within the span of a little more than a day, we have yet to hear a response to this petition from Chancellor Wise. http://www.ccrjustice.org/files/CCR%20Letter%20to%20University%20of%20Illinois%20re%20Prof%20%20Salaita%2008%2007%2014.pdf