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...sanctioned by any group. Academic freedom has not been at stake during the demonstrations of 1969. Ernest R. May was not obstructed on November 19 because of his well-known views on American diplomatic history. He was obstructed, perhaps unwisely, because he had identified himself with the University's racist employment policies by speaking at a news conference on November 11 with the University Personnel Director to "explain" the painters' helper issue. No classes are taught in University Hall, the Faculty Club, or the Gund Hall construction site...
...COMMITTEE on Rights and Responsibilities and the majority of the Faculty which have accepted the Administration's argument that obstructive demonstrations are an attack on academic freedom are acting unwittingly in the interests of the Corporation and its Administration. The Committee punishing those who were protesting the Corporation's racist practices and immoral employment practices is perpetuating those practices...
Will it not also be considered that the black student protests were designed to be and were inconveniencing and not destructive, that they were aimed at structures and not people, and were intended to and did focus attention on Harvard's involvement in and responsibility for racist practices which all concede were abhorrent...
While combating racist practices on campus does not immediately protect black people like the Panthers from being attacked elsewhere, it does give us a concrete opportunity to join what will be a very long struggle against the racism that permeates our society...
Personal Opposition. Though most University of Georgia law students agreed with Cowen's evaluation of Rusk, word of the selection triggered an immediate outcry from conservatives on the 15-member board of regents that must approve the appointment. Regent Roy V. Harris, editor of the racist Augusta Courier and state chairman of George Wallace's American Independent Party, led the assault on Rusk's policies and qualifications. But Harris' blasts were not really aimed at the policies that have made Rusk persona non grata among liberals in the North. His target was Rusk's liberalism...