DIY History | Transcribe | Campus Culture | Student demonstrations correspondence, 1965 | 1965-10-25 Des Moines Register Clipping: ""U of I Raked For Allowing Student Protest"" Page 1

Transcribe
Translate

Student demonstrations correspondence, 1965

1965-10-25 Des Moines Register Clipping: ""U of I Raked For Allowing Student Protest"" Page 1

U. of I. Raked For Alllowing Viet Protst
10-25-65
(The Register's Iowa News Service) 

CEDAR FALLS, IA.- In a letter to University of Iowa President Howard Bowen former Republican State Representative Chester Hougan of Cedar Falls harshly criticized the university for allowing the recent Viet Nam protests to be held on campus. 
"Mary of us have worked too hard for our educations and to provide for education of our youngsters to permit these institutions to become breeding grounds for civil disobedience and government disloyalty," he wrote. 
Called Disloyal 
"None of us likes the war in Viet Nam or elsewhere, but it is for our federal government and State Department to determine foreign policy," he said. "not the disloyal agitators, whether Communist-inspired or otherwise, hiding behind the cloak of our educational institutions and the Constitutional provisions of freedom. 
"I sincerely hope that our university and college administrators will take immediate action to forbid the use of educational institutions for these disloyal demonstrations, and will expel any student participating in them on the campuses."
In reference to faculty participants in the demonstrations, Hougen said, "It is one thing to teach foreign policy and current events in the classroom, but quite another for faculty members to organize and agitate student bodies in disloyal activities. Let these agitators go elsewhere"
Hougen said he hopes the Board of Regents will put a stop to the demonstrations immediately and that the taxpayers of Iowa will demand such action. 
Draft Status
He also said he hopes the draft board will "carefully scrutinize the students participating in such demonstrations. and will place any form their districts top of their draft lists and with no consideration for educational exemptions."
" It is also hoped," he said, "that our state administrators and law enforcement officers will strictly enforce our civil laws, and stop this disloyal cancer before it results in complete civil strife. 
"Let us keep our educational institutions for the benefit of those who seek an education and not for political or disloyal mob activities."
Hougen is a graduate of the University of Iowa at Iowa City.

Saving...

U. of I. Raked For Alllowing Viet Protst 10-25-65 (The Register's Iowa News Service) CEDAR FALLS, IA.- In a letter to University of Iowa President Howard Bowen former Republican State Representative Chester Hougan of Cedar Falls harshly criticized the university for allowing the recent Viet Nam protests to be held on campus. "Mary of us have worked too hard for our educations and to provide for education of our youngsters to permit these institutions to become breeding grounds for civil disobedience and government disloyalty," he wrote. Called Disloyal "None of us likes the war in Viet Nam or elsewhere, but it is for our federal government and State Department to determine foreign policy," he said. "not the disloyal agitators, whether Communist-inspired or otherwise, hiding behind the cloak of our educational institutions and the Constitutional provisions of freedom. "I sincerely hope that our university and college administrators will take immediate action to forbid the use of educational institutions for these disloyal demonstrations, and will expel any student participating in them on the campuses." In reference to faculty participants in the demonstrations, Hougen said, "It is one thing to teach foreign policy and current events in the classroom, but quite another for faculty members to organize and agitate student bodies in disloyal activities. Let these agitators go elsewhere" Hougen said he hopes the Board of Regents will put a stop to the demonstrations immediately and that the taxpayers of Iowa will demand such action. Draft Status He also said he hopes the draft board will "carefully scrutinize the students participating in such demonstrations. and will place any form their districts top of their draft lists and with no consideration for educational exemptions." " It is also hoped," he said, "that our state administrators and law enforcement officers will strictly enforce our civil laws, and stop this disloyal cancer before it results in complete civil strife. "Let us keep our educational institutions for the benefit of those who seek an education and not for political or disloyal mob activities." Hougen is a graduate of the University of Iowa at Iowa City.