Word: shockley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students disrupted attempts last April by William B. Shockley. Stanford University physicist, to express his controversial views on race and intelligence...
...Harvard Law School Forum cancelled in October 1973 a scheduled speech by Shockley under pressure from black law students and faculty...
Editor's note: Following the disruption of a scheduled debate involving physicist and self-proclaimed genetics expert William B. Shockley last April. Yale University set up a committee to examine the status of freedom of expression at Yale. The Committee, chaired by historian C. Vann Wood ward, made its report in early January, recommending severe sanctions for future disruptions and proposing guidelines for what constitutes acceptible protest against controversial speakers...
...recent years, the question of what limits, if any, should be put on persons advocating highly controversial views has been hotly debated on university campuses, the traditional American citadels of free speech. The man at the center of the storm has often been Physicist William Shockley of Stanford University, who theorizes that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. On April 15, 1974, a group of howling students, stomping their feet and shouting slogans, made it impossible for Shockley to address an audience at Yale University...
Twelve students who were suspended after the demonstrations at the October 1973 appearance by Shockley were reinstated this fall...