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...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...
DESPITE these hearings--and the innumerable Congressional Record pages which individual members of Congress filled with attacks on student militants--virtually none of the "anti-riot" bill introduced this session have yet made much headway in Congress...
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...
This lack of White House support has undoubtedly helped to slow the progress of strong anti-university bills, but it might not have been as effective were it not for the fact that college administrators themselves--in their testimony before Congress as well as in their actions this spring--have been trying to assure Congress that colleges have no intention of allowing disruptions of their operations...
...police action was the demonstrate that new repressive laws were not needed to deal with events such as those at Harvard. "We must keep order on our own campuses," he said, and went on to state that, if colleges failed to do so, other bodies, such as the Congress, would take on the task. Later, in his testimony before the Green subcommittee, Pusey engaged in what was perhaps a bit of verbal over-kill, saying that colleges administrators' "wills and resolves are strengthening," and that "the new barbarians will be repulsed...