Recruiter Bans and the New Ivory Tower

The spirals of confrontation and force which marked recent campus demonstrations against Dow interviewers, military recruiters, and Johnson Administration spokesmen have raised serious issues regarding academic freedom. SDS and its allies have announced an abrupt turn “from ‘mere protest’ to ‘resistance.’ ”

SDS National Secretary Mike Spiegel has declared: “We think the issue of civil liberties tends to obfuscate the real issues.”

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