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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1970

1970-06-03 Report: ""Campus Tensions -- A Report on Iowa and Elsewhere"" Page 1

REPORT 

DATE: June 3, 1970
TO: Board of Regents
FROM: Board Office
SUBJECT: Campus Tensions - A Report on Iowa and Elsewhere

December, 1967, President James Perkins of Cornell stated:

If we are not be legislated into total paralysis, there is nothing for it but that each of us goes to work to put the pieces of the community together again. Students and administrators will have to stop regarding each other as implacable enemies. For students this will mean a recognition that they can't have it both ways: they can't ask for full participation in a community that they are systematically proceeding to destroy. And before students leap too quickly into the arms of civil law, law, not just the parts they like. In such quasi-political matters as the draft, pornography, and discrimination, students may bee subject to laws they don't like at all. He who appeals to the law for protection must be prepared to obey it.

For administrators it will mean a very hard look at all the rules and procedures by which their institutions live; quite possibly, it will also mean limbering up some very stuff attitudes about the role of students in academic affairs. And for faculty it will mean not only that they take the time to act as arbiters and to provide the balancing force, but that they reorder their work and give campus affairs a higher priority. A community of any kind is strong only to the extent that its members make the effort required to sustain and nourish it. We must all be willing to make the effort. 

May 29, 1970, President Charles of Hitch of California stated:
Protests on the nine University of California campuses now involves a majority of the students for the first time. A broad cross-section of the campus population has been galvanized. This situation contrasts with past years when outsiders at campus demonstrations outnumbered protesters from the University's 95,000+ student body. Maintaining discipline on campus is difficult because of a kind of double standard that exists today about respect for law. The public demands stringent punishment for campus violations yet unlawful acts seem to be tolerated and go unpunished in many other areas of our life - from illegal strikes of postal workers and air controllers to Indian occupations of Alcatraz to violations of court injunctions by southern governors and California teamsters.

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REPORT DATE: June 3, 1970 TO: Board of Regents FROM: Board Office SUBJECT: Campus Tensions - A Report on Iowa and Elsewhere December, 1967, President James Perkins of Cornell stated: If we are not be legislated into total paralysis, there is nothing for it but that each of us goes to work to put the pieces of the community together again. Students and administrators will have to stop regarding each other as implacable enemies. For students this will mean a recognition that they can't have it both ways: they can't ask for full participation in a community that they are systematically proceeding to destroy. And before students leap too quickly into the arms of civil law, law, not just the parts they like. In such quasi-political matters as the draft, pornography, and discrimination, students may bee subject to laws they don't like at all. He who appeals to the law for protection must be prepared to obey it. For administrators it will mean a very hard look at all the rules and procedures by which their institutions live; quite possibly, it will also mean limbering up some very stuff attitudes about the role of students in academic affairs. And for faculty it will mean not only that they take the time to act as arbiters and to provide the balancing force, but that they reorder their work and give campus affairs a higher priority. A community of any kind is strong only to the extent that its members make the effort required to sustain and nourish it. We must all be willing to make the effort. May 29, 1970, President Charles of Hitch of California stated: Protests on the nine University of California campuses now involves a majority of the students for the first time. A broad cross-section of the campus population has been galvanized. This situation contrasts with past years when outsiders at campus demonstrations outnumbered protesters from the University's 95,000+ student body. Maintaining discipline on campus is difficult because of a kind of double standard that exists today about respect for law. The public demands stringent punishment for campus violations yet unlawful acts seem to be tolerated and go unpunished in many other areas of our life - from illegal strikes of postal workers and air controllers to Indian occupations of Alcatraz to violations of court injunctions by southern governors and California teamsters.