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Joseph Martin, a communications worker for COFO, said that the students believe that the injunction is illegal because it violates their constitutional rights to petition, and that the injunction should have been issued against the registrar.
The petition stipulates, however, that editorial policy remain in the hands of he paper's editors. The paper is now written by students but financed and published by the BU administration.
Authors of the petition claim that B.U. President Case, who met with News editors last Monday, was only stalling for time when he promised not to use his prerogative to edit the paper and agreed to refer the question of student control to the Trustees, who will meet March 19...
But student opinion does not appear to be entirely behind the petition. The Student Congress seems to be sharply split over the issue.
Ten students who seek "to give a more balanced presentation of the Vietnam situation and to present reasons for a strong American policy in Southeast Asia" will petition Monday for University approval.