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Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 14, 1969 THE BATTALI^^N Student Dissent: When at A&M? “COLLEGE STATION—Texas A&M University’s Executive Committee has ratified the Student Senate’s recommendation that classes not be dismissed or excused absences granted for Moratorium Day Wednesday. “The university’s top administrative group also issued a reminder of the institution’s regulation prohibiting unauthorized public speakers, meetings or other unauthorized functions on campus. “No such permission has been approved for Wednesday, the committee noted, pointing out that violation of the regulations could result in suspension.” —University Information News Release October 13, 1969 When the trials of Moratorium Wednesday are past, the gnawing doubts in thoughtful minds here on campus will not likely be as concerned with the puzzle of war in Vietnam as with the question of dissent at A&M. When may a student address a group of his peers on campus? The recent actions of the Executive Committee would seem to indicate that he may not do so if what he has to say is addressed to too large a group and if it is too much in conflict with an administration stand on the same issue. We hope that this is certainly not the case, but we wonder why the committee would in this instance invoke University Regulation No. 48, which, if not in fact, at least in practice formerly applied to speakers from off-campus and not to those within the campus community, namely students and faculty. The regulation, after stating that all speakers on campus will be “of such caliber as to reflect credit on Texas A&M” and have no criminal proceedings pending against them, says this: “Where the audience will consist of students from several colleges, speakers, lecturers and enter tainers must be granted permission to appear on campus by the Executive Committee of the univer sity Permission is likewise required for the speakers at class functions and speakers before other campus-sponsored organizations. This ruling applies to all class functions and to campus sponsored organizations.” If the regulation was to have been enforced in the past as strictly as it has been this week, the Executive Committee would have been quite busy not only approving lists of off-campus speakers, but also lists of students and faculty members who give routine talks to the hundreds of campus clubs. Such, of course, has not been the case. If the Executive Committee members had other reasons for turning down the Moratorium supporters, they should have made them known. When may a student address a group of his peers on campus? The senate side-stepped the issue Thursday ; the Executive Committee cast a shadow over the question Monday. It seems that from some combination of these two organizations a plan could emerge that would chart the boundaries of student rights and responsi bilities concerning speech and assembly. CCOC PLAN (Continued from page 1) Times reported that “Organizers of the Oct. 15 ‘Vietnam Morato rium’ student protest are hopeful that their action will be an “ice breaker’ for renewed expressions of opposition to the war in Viet nam.” Syndicated columnists Robert E. Allen and John A. Goldsmith explained in a July 31 newspa per article that “Revolutionary Trotskyite communists^ are mas terminding those grandiose plans of the SMC for a ‘nationwide’ student strike Nov. 14 and a ‘giant’ anti-war march on Wash ington the following day.” In its Sept. 28 news article, The Washington Post termed the Nov. 15 reaction, “March Against Death.” The SMC also sponsored the “Vietnam Week” demonstrations in April of 1967 during the term of President Lyndon B. Johnson. In public hearings on Mar. 31, 1967, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (now the House Committee on Internal Se curity) affirmed that the “Viet nam Week” student strike was completely Communist in origin. National sponsors of the SMC, as designated in one of their own mailings, “A Call to Vietnam Week,” include officers of the Students for a Democratic Soci ety, the Student Non-Violent Co ordinating Committee, and the Young Socialist Alliance. The House Committee report concludes that “the global publici ty given to them (anti-war dem onstrations) by the Communist propoganda machine will have the following effects: —It will give aid and comfort to Communists everywhere, par ticularly in Vietnam. —Among non-Communists, it will tend to create the false im pression that a truly large seg ment of the U. S. population is vehemently opposed to this coun try’s policy in Vietnam. —U. S. leaders will be faced Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer's name will be with held by arrangement with the editor. 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