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...colleges last week jiggled a hot potato: Could they welcome Japanese students, even though loyal to the U.S., to their campuses? The man who passed them this hot potato was University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul. Sympathizing with his 300 Nisei (American-born Japanese) students, whom he had to evacuate, Dr. Sproul asked 32 inland colleges (all west of the Mississippi) to admit them. The University of Washington followed suit, but extended its request to universities east of the Mississippi...
University of California (like 68 other institutions) gets a U. S. subsidy as a land-grant college, this year got $690,115 all told in Federal grants. Recently President Robert Gordon Sproul asked John U. Calkins Jr., attorney for the university regents, whether university professors were affected by the Hatch Act. In an opinion published in the faculty bulletin, Mr. Calkins replied that they were, added: "I do not think one who merely wears a button . . . is likely to be considered as participating in a political campaign within the prohibitions...
When Harvard last June presented Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul with an honorary degree, the President of the University of California was heralded as a distinguished educator. Just what distinguishes an educator is being demonstrated these days out on the coast...
Under the sponsorship of a group of student organizations, including the Daily Californian editors, a meeting was recently called to discuss the draft--discussion being still, presumably, one of the rights of citizens of this democracy. Promptly came forth a sharp statement from the office of President Sproul, warning that students who opposed "defending this country" might find themselves deprived of the chance to be "educated by this country...
Latest advices from the coast are that the students, and the campus paper, intend not to back down in their proposed insistence on freedom of campus activities. What will happen--that is, what President Sproul will decide to do--is not clear. But undergraduate eyes throughout the nation are turning California-ward, as they were turned toward Michigan last year, and as they continually turn when student freedom is challenged in one college or another...