Following my message to the community yesterday, I am writing to you with an update about the actions we took this morning to safeguard campus safety and sustain university operations. I was deeply saddened that the call for civil discourse and peaceful protest I issued was not heeded. More concerning, some of those who joined students at Hewitt Quadrangle (Beinecke Plaza) in recent days were not members of the Yale community, and protesters were trespassing on campus overnight.