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Much as the cause of the pro-war Teach-in's speakers is indefensible on constitutional grounds as well as for the strongly ethical reasons that most students at this university cherish very deeply. I do not see that the disruption of the Teach-in can be justified in line with the traditional Supreme Court interpretation of free speech...
...free speech violations is the argument that no one is entitled to use his free speech in order to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater. In B. Ko-Yung Tung's very sympathetic letter to the CRIMSON, this line of reasoning is offered as one possible defense of the pro-war Teach-in heckling. Mr. Tung writes that, since "bringing in pro-warriors to a militantly anti-war campus logically results in disruption," it was the pro-warriors themselves who provoked the disruption...
Dean Dunlop told the Faculty yesterday that the Administration has identified four students as having disrupted the pro-war "Counter Teach-in" in Sanders Theatre March...
Without deciding on the merits of the alleged violation of the principle of freedom of speech by the various students and faculty at the pro-war Teach-in, I offer two possible defenses in their favor...
...ease of violation of free speech is that of a person shouting "Fire" in a crowded theatre. Such a person should reasonably see the chaotic result of his yell. Likewise, the pro-war speakers and their sponsors did and/or should have foreseen the reaction of many students at the campus. Bringing in pro-warriors to a militantly anti-war campus logically results in disruption. Therefore, it is the pro-war speakers and their sponsors who, in the name of free speech, provoked the resultant disruption, i.e., but for the pro-war teach-in, such disruption would not have occurred...