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Like most black people here, I have watched with detached interest as student groups like SDS and UAG evidence willingness to risk expulsion and possible prison in bold--and likely futile--efforts to convince the world (and perhaps themselves) that white Americans are not as insensitive to the centuries of white racist oppression as Herrnstein's writings suggest...
...ADMINISTRATION'S consideration of SDS's request for rooms for its National Convention Against Racism has been marked by politically motivated intransigence. Every conceivable objection to the convention, including past debts, attendance limitations, and the convention's publicity, has been raised by the Administration...
Unhappily however, the MIT administration, pursuing the same tortuous logic, has ruled SDS "inappropriate to host a national convention" on the basis of "its demonstrated attitude toward the foundations of the university and its underlying principles of free speech and individual integrity," according to Louis Menard III, assistant to the provost of MIT. By arbitrarily depriving the MIT chapter of SDS of its freedom to speak in a public forum with other SDS chapters, the MIT administration has placed political considerations above its own belief in free speech...
...DECISION eliminated the best alternative location for SDS to hold its meetings on the first two days of the convention. Harvard has denied it a permit on these days because classes will then be in session. The problem with having the convention while classes are in session is not a lack of rooms. Dean Epps said that the reason for denying the request for rooms on those days is a long-established, but unwritten. Faculty rule that a convention can not be held while classes are in session. This rule is necessarily arbitrary because it does not define what constitutes...
...hope that the Administration will reconsider its refusal to grant permission for SDS to hold the first two days of the convention here and in the future not allow political considerations to enter into the approval of requests for the use of campus facilities...