Word: campus
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...relative moderation to date of Congressional reaction to campus tumult may, in part, be due to a belated realization that repressive legislation is an inadequate and perhaps even counter-productive response to university problems. In a report on college unrest sent to President Nixon on June 17, a group of 22 Republican Congressmen said that...
Congress has, of course, not evidenced any great affection for campus rebels. Well aware of how most of his constituents regard students who seize buildings and throw out administrators, many a Senator or representative has arisen in his chamber, delivered a scathing speech against SDS members, and perhaps introduced a bill which would -- as two such proposals provide -- withdraw all Federal aid from any campus where disorders occur, or from colleges which fail to carry out research deemed important to the national security. At the same time, three Congressional committees have held lengthy hearings on student unrest...
...House's Special Subcommittee on Education, chaired by Rep. Edith Green (D.-Ore), continued hearings it began last fall on campus disturbances. Most of the testimony before the Green Committee came from leading college administrators and faculty, including Harvard's President Pusey, and Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
CONTRARY to the expectations of many, the Nixon Administration has also been urging Congress to exercise caution when dealing with bills relating to campus disruptions. Arguing that college administrators are best qualified to deal with disturbances, Nixon, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, and Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr., have all spoken out against measures which would cut off Federal aid to universities hit by disruptions. Though Attorney General John Mitchell has argued for stronger measures, the Administration's only new proposal on colleges has been one which would allow universities to apply for Federal restraining orders against students...
Relieved that nothing stronger had been attached to the NASA bill, one Harvard administrator recently commented, "I think it's a good sign--I hope." Just how good a sign it is, and how long-lived Congress' moderation on campus disturbances is, should be clearer by the time appropriations hearings are over. The final result may depend largely on how strongly the American public as a whole is feeling about "college unrest." If voter sentiment is highly anti-student, Congress--which can be extraordinarily sensitive to public feeling on certain issues--may well throw moderation to the winds, and replace...