Dear friends, Thank you so much again for continuing to share and show your support for my petition. The following support letter was delivered by e-mail yesterday to Amy Saltzman, current president of the Telluride Association, and physically to Michael Barany, chair of the Cornell Branch Committee in charge of overseeing Telluride House. It contains 109 signatures, almost all of which are from alumni or faculty of Telluride-related programs. Again, thank you for your support and please continue to share the petition. Yours, Meredith Talusan -- Telluride Association 217 West Avenue Ithaca, NY 14850 October 24, 2014 To Whom It May Concern: It has come to our attention that Telluride Association has failed to remove from its residential scholarship a student who has made repeated transphobic statements and created a physically and emotionally unsafe environment for their fellow students. Further, we are aware that in the aftermath of these actions the residents of the Cornell Branch have not been uniformly supportive of Meredith Talusan, who has borne the brunt of these actions. Multiple requests that this student not share a living space with Ms. Talusan have been ignored or treated with skepticism reflective of the kinds of attitudes that allowed this environment to exist in the Branch in the first place. As alumni of the Telluride Association we are ashamed of the association's decisions, and as non-alumni we are disgusted. An organization which takes seriously the formation of residential communities has a responsibility to enact policies that would protect residents from hateful speech and to hold its members to standards of proper conduct, in particular when the students in those communities fail to do so for themselves. In light of multiple incidents within the past two years in which unsafe environments in the branch have been fumbled, we ask that the association attempt to make this situation right by taking unilateral action to restore safe community to Meredith Talusan. This can only be done by removing the offending student form the Cornell Branch of Telluride House, and only allow that student to return at a point when Ms. Talusan feels that her psychological and physical safety are not compromised by the student's presence. With deep consternation, The Undersigned 1. Sze Wei Ang, CBTA 2006-2007, Cornell PhD 2008 2. Sarosh Anklesaria, CBTA 2007-2008. M-Arch, Cornell 2008 3. Sarah Asman, SP08 CB09 TA12 4. Audrey Dantzlerward, TASP '10, Princeton '16 5. Desiree Barron, SP05 CB06 SS08 TA09 6. Amanda Gilvin, TASP '95, Cornell Ph.D. '12 7. Martin Geiger, TASP '06, Cornell Branch '07 8. James Hayden, DS '97 CBTA '06 9. Marquessa Henry TASP '10 Cornell '17 10. Tsitsi Jaji, Cornell Ph.D. 2009, CBTA 2005-8 11. Amanda Mennis, TASP 2005, MBTA 2010 12. William Flesch, Cornell PhD and former TASP faculty 13. Annie McClanahan, Faculty Guest at Cornell Branch, 2012-2013; Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 14. Masha Raskolnikov, Associate Professor of English, Cornell and former TASP faculty 15. Michael Byars, DS'11 TA'14 16. Christina Zhang, TASP '10, Cornell BA '15 17. Sean O'Connor, TASP ’12 18. John McGrath, TASP ’12 19. Shreeraki Tadepalli, TASP ’12 20. Hayun Cho, TASP ’12 21. Hillary Do, TASP ’12 22. Alex Nguyen, TASP ’12 23. Pamela Weidman, TASP ’12 24. Daniela Wertheimer, TASP ’12 25. Wesley Chou, TASP ’12 26. Alexander Chase, TASP ’12 27. Ava Clouden, TASP ’12 28. Julia Qin, TASP ’12 29. Alexandra Wang, TASP ’12 30. Angie Tang, TASP ’12 31. Amelia Marsh, TASP ’12 32. Katie Zheng, TASP ’12 33. Dorosi Valle, TASP ’12 34. Alex Robertson, TASP ’12 35. Sam Balzac, TASP ’12 36. Dasol Lee, TASP ’12 37. Kaiyi Shen, TASP ’12 38. Will Hunt, TASP ’12 39. Gemma Berry, TASP ’12 40. Jonathan Uesato, TASP ’12 41. Rachel Connolly (TASS 2011 and TASP 2012) 42. Jessie Gaston, TASP ’12 43. Anuradha Vikram, Faculty at Otis College of Art and Design 44. Peter T. Wilson, Harvard AB '99, MArch '06, former BGLTS Adviser for Harvard College '99-'06 45. Liz Field, Cornell University Communications Manager, Department of Performing and Media Arts 46. Kathleen Long, Professor of French, Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 47. Danielle Haque, Cornell PhD 2014, Assistant Professor MSU 48. Lorraine Fitzmaurice, Cornell BA ‘13 49. Anna McCormick, Cornell Graduate Student 50. Derrick Kim, Cornell '11 51. Zhana Vrangalova, PhD in Developmental Psych from Cornell 52. Lauren A. Schneider Lipton, Cornell BA ‘11 53. Shoan Yin Cheung, Cornell BA ‘10 54. Pelin Ariner, Cornell '06 55. Seth Perlow, Cornell '13 56. Ashley Puig-Herz Cornell PhD '11 57. Kelsey Dow, Cornell BA '08 58. C.J. Lussenhop Cornell BA '11 59. Edoardo Carta, PhD 2008 60. Ashe McGovern, Cornell BA '08 JD '13 61. Sarah Cote, Cornell PhD '14 62. Lisa Grossman, Cornell BA '08 63. Sibyl Ashcraft-Holt, Cornell '16 64. Leslie Reed, Cornell BA '09 65. Pratiti Deb, Cornell '16 66. Kristin Herbeck, Cornell BA '14 67. Debbie Schneider, Cornell BA '10 68. Lori Gordon Auffhammer 69. Ivette Villalba, Cornell BA '12 70. Brigitte Fielder, Cornell PhD '12 71. Maia Kelner, Cornell grad alum 72. Ezra Young, Cornell Arts and Sciences '09 73. Virginia Heatter, Cornell MFA, 2010 74. Jessica Streit, Cornell Ph.D. 2013 75. Becky Butler, Cornell Ph.D., 2014 76. Dana Hammer (B.A. Arts and Sciences '04) 77. Adrian Baur, Cornell PhD 2013 (Legal Name Robin Baur) 78. Diddle Kaiser, PhD 2014 (messaged full real name) 79. Wanda D Casillas, PhD 2014 80. Tyler Lurie-Spicer, ILR '15 81. Marisa Brook, Cornell BA '09 82. Mary Close, Cornell BS '08 83. Aleah Simpson, Cornell 2011 84. Ericka Kilburn, Cornell BS '08 85. Danielle Hein, Cornell BS '09 and DVM '13 86. Will Youngman, Cornell PhD 2014 87. Peter A A Bailey. Cornell PhD 2009 88. Caroline Hugh, Cornell BS, CHE 2010 89. Cassy Griff, Cornell BA '11 90. Caetlin Benson-Allott, Cornell Ph.D. 2008 91. Mike Castro Reyes-Singh, Cornell PhD 92. Xine Yao, Cornell PhD 93. Antonia Muir, former Cornell faculty member 94. Deborah Lander 95. Kat Yang-stevens 96. Gabriel Arana, Cornell MA 97. Nirosta Steel 98. Steven Hall (Columbia College grad) - name posted by Nirosta Steel 99. Gertrud Latsch 100. Ashley Holmes 101. Gaia Woolf-Nightingall 102. Samuel Barwick, MS, 2006, UMass Boston 103. Lu Yuan, CBTA, Cornell BA '11 104. Cassy Griff, Cornell BA '11 105. Caetlin Benson-Allott, Cornell Ph.D. 2008 106. Jennifer Row, Cornell Ph.D. 2014 107. Bailey Dineen, Cornell 2014 108. Leo Stellwag, Cornell Ph.D. 2015, Founder and co-facilitator of the Haven ad-hoc suborganization, Ithaca Trans Group. 109. Toni Wall Jaudon, Cornell Ph.D. 2009.