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...Yale College faculty approved the committee's report on January 16 and sent it on to the Yale Corporation for its action. Yale President kingman Brewster says he supports the report generally, but disagrees with he recommendation that the University administration use persuasion to discourage invitations to overly controversial speakers. Brewster also supports mandatory one year minimum suspensions of convicted disrupters...
...wake of that demonstration, Yale President Kingman Brewster appointed a student-faculty committee, headed by Historian C. Vann Woodward, "to examine the condition of free expression at Yale." Early this month the panel declared that interference with free speech should be a punishable offense, even when talks are deemed "defamatory or insulting." The only exception would be "if a speech advocates immediate and serious illegal action, such as burning down a library, and there is danger that the audience will proceed to follow such an exhortation...
...Brewster endorsed and toughened the findings, then passed them on for final approval to the Yale Corporation, the university's board of trustees. If the corporation agrees, any Yale student-or faculty member-who is found guilty of disrupting free speech could be suspended for a year...
...Brewster disagreed with these recommendations, stating in an addendum to the report that "It would be paternalistic at best and imply an effort at prior censorship at worst to try to talk a group out of making an invitation." He also said there would be difficulties in knowing in advance of a group's intention to invite someone...
...Brewster said that he will recommend to the Yale Corporation that any group or individual guilty of "willful and persistent disruption of expression" be subject to the "sanction of suspension for not less than a year." The faculty did not vote on this issue...