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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400390011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

JAMAICA, NEW YORK I
LONG ISLAND PRESS
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p oboe rig View
treedonl of speech, but prefer only to hold
..ii( ver shown -city interest. It ii Important,
this was not rncir policy. At any ui,,vci-
silics the have been offered time and
facilities" to hold forums, but they have
against the CIA last Wednesday, I reply
to the "Press" condemnation of our ac-
tions.
I and my fellow students strongly be-
lieve in "academic freedom." Is the fact
that we Diannod to sit in -against the CIA
. a. contrktdiction?' Idou't think so. Before
WednesC`ay, the aciministrtitiolr called the
CIA and raskecl if they would bring it
speaker.?with the recruiter. They replied
volvecl In the threatened demonstration
As one of the Stony Brook students In
CPYRGHT sl'csc c1; ilzl,cCy}ews, Are they attempting to
hide som thiiig which might come out in. A
forum?
Secondly,; die do slot believe recruitment
is a traditio4ft1 academic right. To recruit
llQ x, a right, but,a . gonven-
t on :%;am1 us is
.
.lence offered by tl a university If recruit-'
ment is to become-a "right," it must be
one- iven to all students, which means
any organization should be allowed to re-
eruit on campus upon the request, of stu-
dents. This include;: the Communist Party,;
t.lie Progressive Lubur Party, and the Ku'
{ Klux Klan.
We have made no exorbitant cletn'iands
to the university, as The "Press" :seems to.
think. We have not. demanded the CIA and;,
Dow Chemical be barred from the univer-;
r sity, but merely that recruitment be truly
open. Any civil disobedience is apart
from these demands, and. goes beyond the
recruitment question. We will sit in against i
various organizations not bccalisp we feel1
i the administration should bend to our. de-
sires, but, because our conscience, will not;
permit us' t'o sefe. such 111allip, Lnt ol'g;aniza-
Liuilson campus without protesting. It i-~,,i
perhaip.1 l,lic inc :.;kfeeling Negroes in the,
c,ivil,rights ?iI0vrrn(,nt, felt when they saw.
c ;',cited public, facilitii';s,,ur the feeling of
Jc?wr; ill ttie Warsaw ghetto oil seeing the
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N;c,',i.s to operiii iun. NVe are nut,
t>Ir; ''c understand the cullsequellecs fur':
c,ccr action and are willing to accept Lhem.'
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mil wrung that. hi may say uuhe.;itantly.
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tii;iti. iiL Stony lironh.
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