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...administration official said last week that the pamphlets - written by the Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee - might have violated Harvard's "unwritten rule" forbidding reproduction of a lecturer's statements without his consent...
Barney Frank '62, asst. senior tutor in Winthrop House and author of a letter defending the right of students to criticize their teachers, met with Ford on Friday. "I am pleased that the University has, in fact, no objection to the sort of thing May 2nd did," he said afterward...
Today the Cambridge sponsoring groups, which include the Students for a Democratic Society and the May 2nd Movement, plan to leave the Cambridge Common at 1 p.m. and march to the Boston Common. The marchers, joined by students from Boston University and M.I.T., will picket the U.S. Army recruiting station at 42 Boylston Street and listen to a series of speeches at the Common's bandstand...
Having neither heard the lecture to which May 2nd objected, nor read the statement prepared by them in reply, I can make no comment on the merits of the dispute--though I suspect that my disagreement with May 2nd is as strong on this issue as it is on almost every other. But the merits of the particular dispute are wholly irrelevant to the principle involved, which is that this sort of vigorous debate of controversial questions is something the University should be encouraging, both as the basic right of students as well as faculty...
Apparently, however, the University Administration feels differently. From the comments attributed to the understandably anonymous source quoted in yesterday's CRIMSON, I infer that May 2nd stands accused of a crime lying halfway between unHarvard activities and lese majeste. And in one of the most spectacular displays of semantic perversion since 1984, this accusation is justified as a defense of "academic freedom...