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...School Forum's cancellation of a schedule William Shockley/Roy Innes debate "Race Differences in I.Q. and Dysgenic" on October 26 has provoked charges that SDS endangered free speech. Letters in The Crimson accused SDS of "denying a Nobel Laureate his 1st Amendment rights." This is our response to these charges and similar ones made by the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE...
...SDS is not the only group which denounced William Shockley as a racist. Anti-racist faculty and the Black Law Students Association (BALSA) also convinced the Forum to cancel the debate. CORE spokesmen's statement that "some black law students were duped into supporting the white leftists" is a distortion which attacks members of both SDS and BALSA unjustly. White and black SDSers took a principled stand against ideas which we feel are a clear and present danger to black Americans and members of BALSA took a principled stand under no pressure from SDS...
...above article was written by Tom Bailey '76, Brian Mendis '75 and Kathy Moos '75, all members of SDS...
Boynes identified members of SDS and the New American Movement as being responsible for the cancellation...
...SDS feels that Shockley should not be allowed to speak because of the 'moral irresponsibility' of his views. The academic community should examine the responsibility of the SDS in their use of terroristic tactics in repressing the freedom of speech...