A petition that was started just a few days ago by two alumni of Brett Kavanaugh’s high school to encourage other graduates to come forward with information about any sexual assaults he committed there has picked up 96 signatures, the petition organizers announced late Tuesday night. The petition, which states that “our silence will serve no one,” describes its signers from the all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School as “standing in support of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and in solidarity with women everywhere who have endured sexual assault, violence, and harassment.”

Two members of Georgetown Prep’s Class of 1986, Fikri Yucel and Bill Barbot, launched the petition on Saturday. Neither Yucel nor Barbot knew Kavanaugh back then — they were several years behind his Class of 1983 — but after watching the dramatic Senate testimony of both Ford and the Supreme Court nominee last week, they came to believe that Ford was telling the truth. “We believe her,” their petition states. It adds, “Whether it is knowledge of specific events in these allegations, or just background to those events, please do not remain silent, even if speaking out comes at some personal cost.”

The petition, which is posted on Medium, now has 51 named signers, 18 signers who confirmed their support and identities but “have asked to have their names withheld for professional or personal reasons,” according to the petition. An additional 27 Prep alumni submitted their names but are not yet sure whether they want to have their signatures go public. That makes 96, plus the two originators of the petition, which in just a few days has reached more than half the number of alumni who signed a widely circulated letter of support for Kavanaugh on July 9, when his nomination was unveiled.