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...Regina Kyle, assistant professor of English, is apparently unaware of the importance of these values. President Bok appeared last week at a public meeting to discuss "Teaching in the University." A large contingent from the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union was on hand to question Bok about his stand on the Union's demands. Kyle, who chaired the meeting, announced at the outset that the discussion would be "off the record...
...Kyle's announcement was unethical and represented an attempt to abridge the community's right to be informed on an important issue. She deliberately waited until the meeting was underway to preclude discussion of her edict. Her employment of journalistic jargon was a clumsy effort to mask an attempted intimidation of the representatives of the press present...
President Bok's attitude was equally disturbing. He appeared to sanction Kyle's pronouncement by intimating that he was party to an earlier agreement that excluded press coverage, an agreement made meaningless by the conspicuous absence of press representatives...
...certain restrictions. But clearly, the meeting at which Bok spoke did not fall into either of these categories. The meeting was open to the public; it was advertised as such and was in no way different journalistically from a Union meeting or an SDS conclave. The Crimson therefore ignored Kyle's statement and her continual affirmation of it during the course of the meeting -- none of which Bok objected to -- and reported what happened...
...served by Kyle's crass attempt to manage the news and screen vital information from the community. The issues of the day can only be resolved if the maximum amount of information and opinion from all shades of the political spectrum are widely circulated. We reject Kyle's attempt as we will reject all such attempts in the future, no matter from what quarter they are issued. The Crimson will continue to report and comment on the affairs of this community, and we will continue to treat with disdain those who would hamper our efforts...