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...University of Colorado, with 12,666 students on its stunning campus at Boulder, is fast growing "from a good university to a great university," according to President James Quigg Newton Jr. The genius of a great university is free expression limited by fair play. What should it do when the student newspaper calls a U.S. Senator a "murderer...
...Barry Goldwater was thus recently libeled is an intense left-right political split at Colorado that goes clear back to Ku Klux Klan attacks on the school in the '20s. On one side: the student Colorado Daily, a few Socialists, and most campus Democrats, who include President Newton and five of the six university regents. On the other side: Republicans (including the other regent), the Campus Conservative Club, and its hero, Edward Rozek, 42, a Harvard-trained political scientist, a much decorated Polish officer in World War II and a zealous antiCommunist...
...delivered his standard anti-statism speech before 3,650 receptive students. Angered by criticism of his own performance, Rozek later went to court charging a university "conspiracy" against himself and "the basic precepts of our Constitution." Among those he is still trying to get on the witness stand: President Newton...
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...
Yale-educated President Newton, onetime mayor of Denver, blasted back. "You have made yourself a symbol of the suppressive forces which are waging an all-out assault on the university," he wrote. "It is always the same: 'Our way is the only American way. All others are un-American and subversive. You must silence those who do not agree with us!' Senator, I shall not silence them...