The Orange Ribbon Campaign MIT is a unique and wonderful institution. The orange ribbon stands for our anger at administrative condescension toward MIT's students, and our anger at administrative shortsightedness in leading MIT as a whole.
Students are here to learn, and faculty are here to teach.
Collectively, our jobs are to enact the educational process. Please wear the orange ribbon to your classes and labs to demonstrate your support without taking time away from that process. This card says everything about what the Orange Ribbon means, but the Orange Ribbon is only one aspect of a larger campaign to remind the administration of what makes MIT the special place we love. Edmund Golaski , Jeremy Brown , James Kretchmar , Lex Nemzer , Carolyn Jones , Liana Lareau , Gisele Proulx , Nick Ingolia , Nathan Williams , Abbe Cohen , John Hawkinson , Walter Stiehl , and Erik Nygren .