Word: mitcham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Personal. In this atmosphere, Daily Editor Gary Althen, 21, this fall allowed Carl Mitcham, 26, a late-blooming philosophy student, to publish a polemic calling Goldwater "a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal." Campus conservatives informed Goldwater. President Newton apologized. Unsatisfied, Goldwater wrote a stinging reply: "You either do not know what is going on in the university, or you don't care, and in charity I will presume the former. To put it briefly, I doubt that you have the interest or the concern to be in the position you hold...
...this point, Daily Editor Althen allowed Student Mitcham to publish another article that called Dwight Eisenhower an "old futzer." Haled before the university discipline committee, Mitcham was not even remotely chastised. Instead the committee upheld his right to express "a philosophical point of view," and ruled that the Goldwater article "could not be considered a personal attack...
Editor Fired. With eyebrows raised all over Colorado, and a TV-radio editorial reproof by Denver's KLZ ringing in his ears, President Newton finally got to work a fortnight ago and fired Althen from his job as editor. Up sprang student picket lines, with Mitcham bearing a derisive sign: "Senator, I will not silence them!" But the faculty senate, meeting behind doors under police guard, voted confidence in Newton...
Last week harried President Newton told a jampacked student audience why Editor Althen had to go (although both Althen and Mitcham remain enrolled as students). Academic freedom needs protection not only from those who do not believe in it, said Newton, but also from those who misuse it "to justify irresponsible actions which endanger the university." In a straw vote next day by 2,963 students, Newton's firing of Editor Althen was upheld by more than...
...Mitcham then followed his article with a letter written to explain his comments. He attacked Goldwater again and referred to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower as "a lapdog. . .an old futser...