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Student demonstrations correspondence, 1965

1965-10-16 Chester Hougen to President Howard R. Bowen Page 1

"OUR LIBERTIES WE PRIZE AND OUR RIGHTS WE WILL MAINTAIN"

CHESTER O. HOUGEN
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Chairman, Legislative Research Committee
3215 WATERLOO ROAD
CEDAR FALLS, IOWA

House of Representatives
STATE OF IOWA
Sixtieth General Assembly
STATE HOUSE
Des Moines 19, Iowa

COMMITTEES
     _______

PRINTING, Chairman
AERONAUTICS
CONSOLIDATION AND COORDINATION
  OF STATE GOVERNMENT
JUDICIARY 1
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PHARMACY
SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, STATE
  EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
TAX REVISION

October 16, 1965

Dr. Howard R. Bowen, President
State University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

Dear Dr. Bowen:

As a graduate of the University of Iowa and a taxpayer, I personally protest the faculty and student demonstrations on the campus of our Universities and Colleges. Many of us have worked too hard for our educations, and to provide for the education of our youngsters to permit these institutions to become breeding grounds for civil disobedience and government disloyalty. None of us like the war in Viet Nam or elsewhere, but it is for our Federal Government and State Department to determine foreign policy, not the disloyal agitators, whether Communist inspired or otherwise hiding behind the cloak of our educational institutions and the Constitutional provisions of freedom. If they do not like our foreign policy, let them participate politically to change the administrators, not change our form of government which is providing for their educational opportunities.

I sincerely hope that our university and college administrators will take immediate action to forbid the use of our educational institutions for these disloyal demonstrations, and will expel any student participating in them on the campuses. It is interesting to note that many of these student leaders are nonresidents. Certainly the taxpayers of Iowa should not have to support such students who are abusing the privileges of our educational institutions.

Likewise with faculty members. It is one thing to teach, objectively, foreign policy and current events in the classroom, but quite another for faculty members to organize and agitate student bodies in disloyal activities. Many of our college faculty are constantly pointing out the higher salaries paid in other states. Let these agitators go elsewhere. We don't need them in Iowa.

It is hoped that our Board of Regents will take immediate action to put a stop to such activities and demonstrations on our campuses, and that the public taxpayers will demand such action.

Secondly, it is hoped that every draft board in the State of Iowa will

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"OUR LIBERTIES WE PRIZE AND OUR RIGHTS WE WILL MAINTAIN" CHESTER O. HOUGEN STATE REPRESENTATIVE Chairman, Legislative Research Committee 3215 WATERLOO ROAD CEDAR FALLS, IOWA House of Representatives STATE OF IOWA Sixtieth General Assembly STATE HOUSE Des Moines 19, Iowa COMMITTEES _______ PRINTING, Chairman AERONAUTICS CONSOLIDATION AND COORDINATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT JUDICIARY 1 PUBLIC HEALTH AND PHARMACY SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TAX REVISION October 16, 1965 Dr. Howard R. Bowen, President State University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Dear Dr. Bowen: As a graduate of the University of Iowa and a taxpayer, I personally protest the faculty and student demonstrations on the campus of our Universities and Colleges. Many of us have worked too hard for our educations, and to provide for the education of our youngsters to permit these institutions to become breeding grounds for civil disobedience and government disloyalty. None of us like the war in Viet Nam or elsewhere, but it is for our Federal Government and State Department to determine foreign policy, not the disloyal agitators, whether Communist inspired or otherwise hiding behind the cloak of our educational institutions and the Constitutional provisions of freedom. If they do not like our foreign policy, let them participate politically to change the administrators, not change our form of government which is providing for their educational opportunities. I sincerely hope that our university and college administrators will take immediate action to forbid the use of our educational institutions for these disloyal demonstrations, and will expel any student participating in them on the campuses. It is interesting to note that many of these student leaders are nonresidents. Certainly the taxpayers of Iowa should not have to support such students who are abusing the privileges of our educational institutions. Likewise with faculty members. It is one thing to teach, objectively, foreign policy and current events in the classroom, but quite another for faculty members to organize and agitate student bodies in disloyal activities. Many of our college faculty are constantly pointing out the higher salaries paid in other states. Let these agitators go elsewhere. We don't need them in Iowa. It is hoped that our Board of Regents will take immediate action to put a stop to such activities and demonstrations on our campuses, and that the public taxpayers will demand such action. Secondly, it is hoped that every draft board in the State of Iowa will