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...misquoted, although he did not say in what way. His bitter outburst brought a deliberately contemptuous statement from one of the most respected figures on the Kent State campus, Geology Professor Glenn W. Frank. In testimony given before the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, headed by William Scranton, Frank had expressed his abhorrence of student violence in strong terms. Within hours after Ford's statement became public he used equally strong language...
...While the Scranton Commission was calling for renewed "moral" leadership, the Pornography Commission was holding morality "irrelevant" for adults. Perhaps we need a Commission on the Relevancy of Morality...
...Scranton commission did not address itself to the activities of the minority group of faculty members described by the jury. It did say that teachers did little or nothing to halt the disturbances, although some informally constituted themselves as marshals. One who watched, helpless, as the ROTC building burned, told the commission: "I have never in my 17 years of teaching seen a group of students as threatening, or as arrogant, or as bent on destruction." THE FUTURE. The jury, citing recent meetings at the university, said that "all the conditions that led to the May tragedy still exist." Referring...
...Scranton commission also saw the need to learn from what it called the unnecessary tragedy of Kent State, but it found basic lessons in the events for the Guard as well as for the students and the university. It said: "The actions of some students were violent and criminal and those of some others were dangerous, reckless and irresponsible. The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable...
...grand jury report, according to Special Prosecutor Robert Balyeat, was based on "far more evidence" than that available to the Scranton commission. The jury had reopened not only the specific controversy over the events at Kent State, but also the general debate over the causes and cure of disorders on the nation's campuses...