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...ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned a student invitation to Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett. "Untimely and ill-considered," he said, but free inquiry is "pivotal to the very idea of a university...
Last Fall 3000 students went to hear Willy Brandt speak in Sanders Theatre. 1800 were turned away at the door. Later the same scene was reenacted when Ross Barnett spoke in the same hall. Two years ago even more people were turned away when Nelson Rockefeller spoke in Sanders...
...that a University which can attract such speakers to its campus cannot provide adequate space for its students to hear them. Sanders Theatre seats 1200 when jammed to capacity. Rindge Tech Auditorium, which seats 1500, is available at the whim of the Cambridge School Committee, which denied it to Barnett and presumably will do the same to Wallace...
Segregationist attempts to crack the solid North will not rest solely on Wallace's shoulders, however. In Princeton, the Whig-Cliosophic Society announced that Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett has accepted an invitation to speak Oct. 1. President Robert F. Goheen called the invitation "untimely and ill considered" and said it did not imply endorsement by the university of Barnett's views and actions...
Unless Brewster was threatened directly by the Negro community of New Haven, his fears were unfounded. Governor Barnett's peroration in Sanders Theatre last spring was the occasion of no more than orderly picketing by civil rights groups and a polite hearing by an integrated audience. Surely Yale is not so much less sophisticated than Harvard that it cannot greet a detestable man with civility...