Mount Holyoke sent the statement to President George W. Bush and to Massachusetts Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry, as well at to Richard E. Neal, the U.S. Representative for the 2nd Congressional District of Massachusetts, according to The Gazette.
"We do not dispute that Saddam (Hussein) is a tyrant, but we believe a strategy based on containment, deterrence and continued pressure via the United Nations would be more effective in neutralizing him than a pre-emptive attack," the statement reads.
The faculty members said they worried about casualties resulting from the war, as well as the prospect that the expense of the war could further weaken the U.S. economy, according to The Gazette.
Daniel Czitrom, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke, drafted the resolution. "Imagine if hundreds of thousands of colleges across the country did this. It would be an indication of the support for the war being quite weak and quite thin," Czitrom told The Gazette.
-Talia Brown