INFORMAL HEARING FOR PROFESSOR

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An assistant professor at
Brown University who joined
seVerah students . in, a ,denton,
stration against a ,recruiter
from' Ihe? Central ,Intelligence
tAgeney _ was to, receive an -in-
fOrmal hearing today before ? the
. , . .
faculty tenure cortimittee: '
DC, Ray L. ITeffne, President.
Of Brown, has warned Scot Blue
of the psychology deparinient
that he could be dismissed from
the faculty for his actions,
?The_fiveznieryther :tenure corn-,
mittee -will determine whether
'a. foripal bearing is necessary
for Mr. Blue. If one is neces-
sary, the tenure committee- will
,elect an ad hoc subcommittee
to conduct ? ? the hearing and
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Make. a . recommendation for
pkthislitnint- to Dr. :Definer, . ?
.
-thily,:Dr. Beffner may fire ti-
professor. Mr, Bine received Ids,
doctoral ilegrOP from 'Brown in
?JUne
and' Was appointed to- the
faculty Shortly afterWard,? ?
' -After a 'nine-hour hearing last.
Wednesday, the Brown Univer-
sity ,(7011M!i1.on _Studerit _Affairs
ruled ? that 13 : students were'
guilty of, Obstructing the CIA1
recruiter and placed them on'
probation' for the remainder of'
.i.the School . year.- ' ?' ? 1
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CIA on Camp
Opposed by
Prof. at Brown
Central Intelligence Agency
Practices that have "subverted"
academic freedom in the past,
make it "ludicrous" for a un!-
Versify to invite the agency's
recruiters on campus, a Brownt
University p-rofessor declared.'
yesterday.
Speaking at a luncheon in
Sharpe Refectory, Dr. Robert
Accola, assaciate professor of
mathematics, said the CIA has
"blatantly Violated academic
freedom" and -"infiltrated" stu-
dent organizations. ?
It has also, he maintained,
caused books and at least one
scholarly article to be pub-
lished without disclosing the:
soureo of the writer's support.
He called this type of activ-
ity a threat to the spirit of free
inquiry, and said it rendered
the CIA unworthy of a "cour-
tesy". from the university such
as allowing its recruiters on
campus,
Despite the likelihood that cc-
cruitmen will continue off cam-
pus?for instance in downtown
Providence government build-
ings instead of at Drown?he
said "symbolically it makes a
lot of difference." -
His comments about "infil-
trating" student groups, al-
though never made specific, was
.an' apparent reference to dis-
closures last year that the CIA
had donated large sums of
money through foundations to
the National. Student Associa-
tion. Only a few top association
officers were -aware of the link.
He compared a university
that invites the CIA on cam-
pus to "a father who offers his
youngest daughter to a man
who Las seduced his older daugh-
ter."
Dr. Accola said he disap-
prove of the tactics used by
demonstrators who sat in at
Brown to block the path of a'
CIA ..ecruitcr last month. He.
mint/Med, however, that the
recrui:ment should not have
been allowed in the first place,
. He maintained (hal, the uni-
versit;,? must "rim its own
show" and said, "When people
;have N iolated academic freedom
so blatantly as the CIA has
they siould be kept out."
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? Brown Proy.
is Suspended
F Or CM Sit-in
Scot M. Blue, assistant
wofessor of psychology at
3fown - University, has been
elieved of his teaching duties
or the remainder - of the
emester for participating in, a
tit-in that forced a Central
Intelligence Agency recruiter to
cancel campus interviews.-
The disciplinary action was
taken by Ray L. FIeffner, presi-
dent of the uniVersity, and con-
filmed by Mr. Blue this morn-
ing. A spokesman for Brown
T1,1111 o Poge 31, Cal. 1
Blue
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Blue,
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said the university considered
Mr. Blue's suspension from
teaching a private matter and
would not comment on it.
The sit-in occurred Oct. 31
In the Brown placement office.
Thirteen Brown students who
also participated were placed
on probation by a student-
faculty governing board.
Mr. Blue's case was given
an informal hearing before a
faculty tenure committee in the
middle of November, but he
declined a formal hearing, so
the decision went to President
effner.
Mr. Blue said this morning
that .he had "no strong feelings"
about the decision because he
had had "no previous experience
with these sorts of situations."
However, he said he did not
think it would be "appropriate"
for him to ask a group such
as the American Association of
.University Professors which in-
vestigates cases involving
academic freedom to intervene
In the case.
Mr. Blue said he confirmed
the suspension after hearing
that President Heffner would
make no formal announcement
of the decision because "I feel
the community has a right to
be appraised of the outcome
of the situation."
He saki that for the remainder
of the semester he would con-
tinue his work as a research
associate. He had been splitting
his time with his teaching
duties.
Asked whether he would
participate in future demonstra-
tions of a similar nature, Mr.
Blue said the situation would
have to be judged at that time.
"Certainly the position of the
university has been made clear
Fta it it comes up again, we'll
have a broader scope on which
tcl decide," he said.
During the sit-in the CIA re-
tar-,
iiLk LA
miter was blocked from enter-
ing, an interview room at the
university placement office on
Waterman Street by almost 20
persons. The sit-in protestors
defied warnings from university
officials that their action could
result in disciplinary proceed-
ings against them.
Thirteen students were placed
on "probation" by Brown for
their part in the demonstration.
.The CIA interviews have not
yet been held. They were sched-
uled to be held next week at
an unspecified off-campus loca-
tion but were, postponed in-
definitely.
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Professor Blue during a
campus demonstration at
Brown early last month.
A . demonstration and rally
against the draft, including
plans to' "take up their- time"
with a large number of requests
for information about in-
dividuals' draft status, are being
planned for Monday at the
Selective Service System's of-
fices at 1 Washington St.
The demonstration will be one
of a nationwide series on 'a day
llabelled National Day of
Resistance.
The Rhode Island plans,
coordinated by members of the
Rhode Island Committee for
Peace in Vietnam, include a
picket line and leaflet distribu-
tion starting at 7:45 a.m., and
a rally starting at 11, according
to Mark Rogovin, a Rhode
Island School of Design senior
active in the peace movement. .
During the day, individuals
registered with the Rhode Island
draft will go to their draft
boards, requesting information
about the draft and about their
status.'
According to Robert F. Cohen
Jr., head of the Campus Action
Council at Brown, the tactic
is intended as a "very. legal"
Nvay to "generally take up their
time."
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"Under the law one can go
in and check his record at any
time," he said, adding that only
Rhode Islanders are being asked
to participate in this phase.
There are no plans for sitting
in or for active resistance, he
added.
Mr. Rogovin said the
participants are expected to in-
elude the RISD Committee to
End the War, the Campus Ac-
tion Council, the Providence Col-
lege Peace Committee and the
University of Rhode Island
Peace Committee.
The rally, scheduled to run
from. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will
feature speakers from the
Rhode Island clergy, academic
community and private citizens,
he said, with no single main
speaker planned.
NEW SERGEANT
Dennis R. Hocking, 20, son
of Robert A Hocking- and Mrs.
Dime. M. Hocking of Attleboro,
has been promoted to sergeant.
He is currently a teletype op-
erations specialist in the Army's
Strategic Communications Com-
mand Signal Battalion in Korea,
Thailand, Hi; wife, Ida, lives at
414 Brook Ave., Bessemer, Ala,
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Foes of the CIA?Plus
Some Onlookers?Gather at
Cancellation Hailed at UW Rally
Erztesers See Vid
By DAVID CHARLTON ?
(Of The State Journal Staff)
The cancellation of the CIA
interviews on the UW campus
was termed a "victory" for the
Ad Hoc Committee Against the
CIA at a rally Friday.
About 150 ?shivering students
stood on the Memorial Union
steps and were urged "to lay
down our bodies Monday morn.
ing when the Navy and the Ma-
rine Corps come to campus to
retruit, because we love free-
dom."
A MARCH on the Student
Court today at 8:30 a.m. was
planned to protest the court's
; hearing on an injuntion to bar
anti-war demonstrators from in-
terfering with campus recruit-
ment.
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"The CIA is nicken," said
the beared, tin emcee. "Ev-
ery thinking man on campus
knows they are obscene, but
they were afraid to do any,.
thing. We did."
The milling crown, constant-,
ly coming and going from
classes, broke up into little
knots, sometimes listening to
the speaker, but Aipprolft
listening to neighbors.
Memorial Union Step Friday for Rally.
?State Journal Photo by Edwin Stern
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BOB WILKINS, a fciur-year was for the cause, while girls
Mr. Force Veteran grabbed at- circulated literature.
*Hon with the idea that "he
."THE CIA didn't come be-
didn't want to put his body on
the line; the establishment
was too strong."
Amid jeers and catcalls he
said that the time for that sort
of thing was past. Now organi-
zation is necessary, he said.
"Now we must have a nation-
wide organization to conilbat
the establishment," Wilkins
said. A small circle of ,people
sitting in the front leld the ap-
plause which none followed.
anyt:N,Tay,. I'm glad to
see the Air Force chickened
out," he said, and melted back
into the crowd in back of the
speaker.
cause they saw the mass cam-
pus uprising facing them. They
are beginning to realize our
strength. They tell us that we
are winning in Vietnam, but
just today, Dais To was leveled:
We were wiped out."
Again the front row cheering
section expressed approval, this
time with a little support from
the crowd.
THEN DAVID .goldman, a
bearded youth in a black and
red checked hunting jacket, re-
lated his experiences before the
State Senate hearings into the
Dow Chemical protests.
ANOTHER SPEAKER de- Goldman, prominent in the
nounced city officials "w.h 0 anti-war movement and who
speak glowingly to industry but has been served with eight in-
who are afraid to walk t h e junctions enjoining protesting
streets of the urban ghettoes..",_ .
School officiarls didn't escape
the committee's denunciations.
"They have sold their robes for
a pound of flesh and now they
are afraid to walk the campus,
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the widespread sympathy there
ver Cl
activities, described the Senate
probers as "a group of mindless
men trying to silence the truth.
They saw it coming and were
afraid of it."
A few sympathetic heads
bobbed in agreement. "I was
called out Of class by a man
with a badge, a stick and a
loaded gun. He wasn't going to
use that stick this time, he just
wanted to stop me from speak-
ing."
, At times he had to shout to
top the heavy, traffic on Lang.,
don St. As it moved toward 5
p.m. the crowd began to thin
out,
As the crowd decreased, the
emcee took over the micro-
phone and ? announced that,
since "it was cold and every-
one was hungry, we'd better
break this thing up."
The crowd left, 50 minutes
after the rally's start.
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Students VVII1
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On Recruiting Issue
Referendum Will Include Four Choices;
-1?esEilts Will Be Referred to Faculty
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A referendum on campus recruiting for College and Engineering
students will be held Thursday and Friday of this week and Monday .
and Tuesday of next week. .
The referendum, which is sponsored by the College class officers,
will ask Istudents to indicate their preference of one of four recruit-
ing policles. Although the form of the ballot has not yet been finalized,
it is expected that the fou.-.? choices will ba: no on-campus recruit-
ing by- any outside organization, recruiting by all outside organiza-
tions, recruiting by only academic institution.3, aid recruiting by .
all but "military" organizations. .
- Results of the referendum will be turned over to the ad hoc fac-
ulty committee on recruiting chaired by Assistant Professor of
Sociology Allan Silver, which is expected to ?issue a report on re-
cruiting policies by Nov. 6.
According to Arthur Sector, president of the senior class, the
referendum is an attempt to "sound out student opinion on recruit-
ing" and will not ba binding in any way.
The faculty recruiting committee announced, shortly after its
formation, that it would attempt to solicit written opinions from
students on recruiting. It is under-
stood that response to their request
has been scanty. Neil Handel,pre-
?sident of the junior class, said last
night that a referendum is "the
most expedient way to evaluate stu-
dent opinion on recruiting."
All on-campus recruiting by
controversial organizations has
? been rescheduled until after the '
November 13 College faculty meet-
ing. ? .
In the past year, on campus re-.
cruiting by certain outside organ-
izations connected with the war in
Vietnam has touched off de-
monstrations and violence. While
demonstrators have been particu-
larly aroused by Central Intel-
ligence Agency recruiting, the re-
ferendum is vague about recruit-
ing by the CIA and similar groups.
The last College referendum was
held last winter on the question
of sending class ranks to local
draft boards. In that referendum,
students voted overwhelmingly in
favor of withholding class
standings from the Selective Ser-
' vice System. ?-
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BY MILTON LEWIS . .
1Vorld Journal Tribune Stall
The Central Intelligence
Agency seem's to be running
hit? recruiting trouble in the
. New York area, as a result of
the disclosure that the huge, ??',,
top-secret spy outfit has subsi
(hied the National Student
Assn.
Though more than 500 col-
leges, 'universities and graduate k
schools in at least 100 other r
cities ' a n d college-university
areas have been tapped to sup- t?
ply CIA personnel thrOugh the
.years, the juiciest market is
right here.
,The academic spheres of par-
ticular interest to the CIA are
volurn;nous and limttless, rang-
Ing from chemistry, engineer-
ing and physics, cartography,
geography and geology, eco-
nomics, international trade and
? public administration,. Englishj:
history, psychology?and', yes;
jo,h?nalism. Knowledge ? :of at ?
ieast ? one foreign language&i:, . . .
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doesn't hurt, either. ?
? A young. New Yorker, de-
ac.:-Ibing himself as. "Liberal.'
left" and who served with the
highly-controversial CIA for a
year, was asked last week about'
his experience.
"There Was none of this an-
ti-Communist rubbish you read
and hear so much," he said.
"The CIA is loaded with like-
able, scholarly people. And
? this business of the CIA?being s
full of spooks?that's, rubbish,
too."
The modernistic headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Va.
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-ent controversy broke involv- were offered for the cancel- 007 agent?thould look: Aftez
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lation, though. it was no secret questioning her for several
that some left-leaning students hours, Mr. Green asked her,,to
were planning' to picket:.: return the next day. ??
A university spokesman. aald
that "more students than ex-
pected showed interest" arid
"the agency, apparently decided
It didn't have enough recruit-
ers available to handle the
volume."
So' for those sincerely inter-
ested in applying, they were
advised to get in touch directly
with the CIA?which lists a
telephone number but no 'ad'
dress in the Manhattan phone
directory?and interviews would
be arranged "off campus."
On that score, a young woman
who had just graduated from
an eastern college?not in New
YOrk?and was in New York
City, told this tale, giving the
year as. 1061. Her story may
well be apocryphal: ?
ng the use of foundations, cor-
porations and even labor unions
as CIA conddits?a pa' re-
cruiter was forced to leave the
Columbia campus, when 18 stu-
dents began a sit-in, chanting:
"Ho, ,ho', ho, the CIA must
go!"
A spokesman for the demon-
trators said:
"The CIA is involved in ins!
ternational law breaking. The
CIA has overthrown freely
lected governments in Guate-
mala and Iran and is now in-
volved . in fighting popular
novements of national liber-
ation in Asia and La tin
America.. ? ?
? "They are on campus to re'
ruit agents for this work, not
to discuss the pros and cons of
American foreign policy. They
are using Columbia facilities
for their work, and we must
continue to prevent and,
?' IN GRADUATE SCHOOL e
This young man, who re-
'I quested anonymity, was in a
graduate school in New York '
,tity when a CIA recruiter camp
on campus a few years ago.,
There was no mass addressing,
? of students, since the agency. "
prefers to talk to applicants'
privately'.
While that "Liberal left"
? c.-oduate student was inter-
: viewed?privately?on campus,
these days, especially' in the
metropolitan area, there is an
almost furtive arrangement for
CIA recruiter and would-be
applicant
applicant to get together. As
often as not, the rendezvous is
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' She was interviewed in a
--VARIOUS REASONS , Manhattan 'hideaway office by
. a CIA recruiter.- He was tall,
And 'last .Friday the CIA young. and handsome. He gave
called off a.scheduled appear- his name as Mr; Green. He
ance of a recruiter at New York looked Just the way ant inter=
University'', Various reasons, ligence.,agentspeelfically , an
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...The next day, after Waiting
a'white,"the young woman was
told, by the secretary outside
Mr. Green's office, "Mr. Green
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