IS CAMPUS VIOLENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200840026-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: May 18, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Antrrica'n ace lemic cntn-
munily Is employing it fin-
grant double standard In
cleating With pnlItikPI rx-
tremisrn no college eampux-
vs.
This Is the opinion of Gor-
don Hall. an authority on
extremist groups in the
United Slates, who has Just
relm ned from a nation-wide
Ilrrtnre Inur of enllegen and
universities.
Violence from the revolil-
Iinnary left In condoned
`while even A hint of it from
flip conservallve right In dp-
pdnred, hall soya.
A few yearn ngn the mere
mrnlion that the right wing
John Birch Society was con-
sidering making its Influ-
ence felt in the local
P.T.A.'s. in the selection of
texthnnks and In the hiring
and firing of faculty mem-
hers. "set of( An academic
rage that was not reserved
for students alone, but in-
clurdrd professors,"
Any action by the political
right wing, he recalled, set
off a strong protest., hilt
torlay an almost identical
pattern by the Students for
a Drmr'crntic Snriety, or si-
milar left wing groups
coupled with villenre or the
threat of violence ?- does not
trigger the nnnne reaction?
.Somehow they don't
enme in for the name criti-
cism on the campus," laird
Hall, who has made a career
of studying and lecturing
on the political extremes,
both the left and right- of
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Clubs are ton unrlisr.iplinNt.
have inn many Ideological
differcnrrs, for an organized
conspirnry,
"in tiny Judgment, the
name of the game is power.
Each group wants In piny
the leadership role on the
campus. And a few even
dream glint national power.
They fire rnmpeling Willi
Hall said there are only
heaviest concentration in the
urban centers on the Fast
And Wcst Coast and in Chi-
cdgn. "They arc the student
radicals, Including the bomb
throwers," he said,
Ile. disagrees that S1)3
lenders me thf, brightest and
most sensitive etudnnls, say
Ing that he has found soma
to he fantastically unin-
formed,"
and they don't hes-
itate to shout down of speak-
er with opposing views,
which is hardly a sign of
sensitivity,"
The educator who bnlirveS
endless anoensement brings,
long range solutions has
been proved wrong. Nall
said,
"When you're . dealing
with a campus revnlution-
Pry, bent, on destroying your
srhnnl, the answer Is to en-'
force existing laws perlain-
Inp to vandalism, drslroying!
properly Anil assault,
The alternative, he said, In
"in see it dean of students
begging to he allowed to
enter his own office. That's
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The double standard exists
also on tile rpinpiiq Imlay in
the instances of alandnrnux
nlinrks, he xnic'.
Srvcrnl years ego the
stnndernus AI lack of the
John Birch Society's found-
ry, Itnhert Welch, on Pres-
ident Fisenhuwer's loyalty
triggered -- Justifiable .
Impassioned defenses on the
campus from lint ii stutrlrnts
And faculty memher4, flail
anid.
itut today former romedi-
An Dick t;re,nory keep.; re-
peating that. Sen, T;ngene
McCarthy Is A,CiA?,au. Hall
said, "and Gregory quotes
from A honk, "Who's Who in
the CIA," which the Fast
German governmenl has put
out.
"The response to Gregory's
untrue citntget prolonged
applause,
lie said widespread sym-
pathy exists on the Ameri-
can campus, from Cam-
bridge to Berkeley, for the
revolutionary left, and A
widespread. fear of the con.
servntive right,
"If two American Nazi
members picketed in uni-
form In front of the White
House," he said, "the inri-
dent would cause serious
discussion And protest on the
rnmptrs,
"Ilut on the oilier hand,
the Black Pnnthrrs (a black
mililarrtrr.ntirr" carrying
carbines and chanting Man
Tse-tung slogans, are not
considered a Ihrenl,"
Hall discnnnts the pnssi-
hility that the current ram-
pus crises Are Communist
Party plots, "What you have