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This week the Civil Liberties Union of Massachussets (CLUM) issued a 15-page report reinforcing that view. The report--following a seven-month investigation--charged that the university had violated students's and professors' rights by censoring statements on the student radio station, by refusing to allow student fees to finance student publications, and by telling professors not to discuss in class a strike by buildings and grounds workers...
...CLUM's wanton disregard of the ordinary decencies in this matter demonstrates its unfitness to judge others on questions of due process," Bergenheim said. "All friends of civil liberty must be saddened by the CLUM's rapid descent into this hypocritical variant of McCarthyism," he added...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law and a member of CLUM's advisory committee, disagrees with the report and will file a dissenting statement today. Dershowitz declined to comment last night, but sources said that although he acknowledges that B.U. has at times violated student rights, he objected to some of the procedures and conclusions of the investigation...
Robert C. Bergenheim, B.U. vice president for labor and public relations, yesterday criticized CLUM for not giving the university an advance copy of the report so that officials could prepare a rebuttal...
Bergenheim declined to comment on CLUM's charges before seeing the report, but in an interview on Monday Silber denied he has restricted the campus newspapers...