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Article: 'UI To Recommend Dropping Recognition for 2 Groups' Page 1

UI To Recommended Dropping Recognition for 2 Groups 
The University of Iowa will recommend to the university hearing officer that two student groups officials say are one and the same be suspended from recognition for three years because one group acted in the name of the other - Students for a Democratic Society - while SDS was under suspension.
In assition, Provost Ray L. Heffner has notified a student who has been active in the groups of two charges of violating university conduct regulations "by virtue of the fact that you aided and abetted the Students for a Democratic Society while not a recognized student organization to use the facilities and services of the university through an organization which is now openly admitted by you to be another name for the SDS, the Worker-Student Alliance Action Group."
Simon J. Piller of Highland Park, I11. today identified himself as the student charged by the university.
Letters of notification of the charges and recommended suspension action were sent Wednesday. University officials said March 23 has been set as the date for a hearing before Theodore G. Garfield of Ames, UI hearing officer.
Piller said he intends to ask that the hearing data be changed. he said he "definitely" would seek an open hearing. 
The student said he believes the university "wants to single one person out" for university charges even though there were many students involved in a Feb. 25 incident related to the charges and recommended suspension action.
Piller also said there was never any attempt to conceal the fact that the Worker-Student Alliance Action Group is the same as SDS and that the university "Knew all along" that the two groups were the same, but only took action after the Feb. 25 incident, in which a controversial speaker declined to speak to a crowd that included WSA challengers. 
Howard N. Sokol, assistant to the provost, said Thursday the recommended suspension of the groups result from a number of handbills and pronouncemments in which the WSA equated itself with SDS, a group that has been under suspension for organizing and promoting demonstrations in the past in which violations of conduct rules occurred.
Sokol said the hanbills and pronouncements pertained to a Feb. 21 "teach-in" sponsored by both groups and the advocacy of a "confrontation" Feb. 25 with Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, who was scheduled to speak that day on the UI campus on learning research with pigeons. Herrnestein has been under attack by SDS and others for what his detractors say are "racist" statements in a magazine article last August ion human IQ. The auditorium in which Herrnestein was to speak was filled with a noisy audience and Herrnestein decided at the last minute not to attempt to give the lecture.
"The Herrnestein lecture is not the direct cause of the recommended suspension of the groups  or the charges against the student, since the specific issue is the equating of WSA with SDS while the latter was under suspension and not permitted ti use university facilities or sponsor activities on campus," Sokol said.
Sokol said the student charged with "willful misrepresentation of a material fact to any member of the faculty or staff of the university in obtaining the use of facilities for SDS when they were otherwise unobtainable by SDS due to its non recognized status." The second charge involves what Sokol called a "corollary charge" of violating the university president's order that put SDS on suspension originally.

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UI To Recommended Dropping Recognition for 2 Groups The University of Iowa will recommend to the university hearing officer that two student groups officials say are one and the same be suspended from recognition for three years because one group acted in the name of the other - Students for a Democratic Society - while SDS was under suspension. In assition, Provost Ray L. Heffner has notified a student who has been active in the groups of two charges of violating university conduct regulations "by virtue of the fact that you aided and abetted the Students for a Democratic Society while not a recognized student organization to use the facilities and services of the university through an organization which is now openly admitted by you to be another name for the SDS, the Worker-Student Alliance Action Group." Simon J. Piller of Highland Park, I11. today identified himself as the student charged by the university. Letters of notification of the charges and recommended suspension action were sent Wednesday. University officials said March 23 has been set as the date for a hearing before Theodore G. Garfield of Ames, UI hearing officer. Piller said he intends to ask that the hearing data be changed. he said he "definitely" would seek an open hearing. The student said he believes the university "wants to single one person out" for university charges even though there were many students involved in a Feb. 25 incident related to the charges and recommended suspension action. Piller also said there was never any attempt to conceal the fact that the Worker-Student Alliance Action Group is the same as SDS and that the university "Knew all along" that the two groups were the same, but only took action after the Feb. 25 incident, in which a controversial speaker declined to speak to a crowd that included WSA challengers. Howard N. Sokol, assistant to the provost, said Thursday the recommended suspension of the groups result from a number of handbills and pronouncemments in which the WSA equated itself with SDS, a group that has been under suspension for organizing and promoting demonstrations in the past in which violations of conduct rules occurred. Sokol said the hanbills and pronouncements pertained to a Feb. 21 "teach-in" sponsored by both groups and the advocacy of a "confrontation" Feb. 25 with Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, who was scheduled to speak that day on the UI campus on learning research with pigeons. Herrnestein has been under attack by SDS and others for what his detractors say are "racist" statements in a magazine article last August ion human IQ. The auditorium in which Herrnestein was to speak was filled with a noisy audience and Herrnestein decided at the last minute not to attempt to give the lecture. "The Herrnestein lecture is not the direct cause of the recommended suspension of the groups or the charges against the student, since the specific issue is the equating of WSA with SDS while the latter was under suspension and not permitted ti use university facilities or sponsor activities on campus," Sokol said. Sokol said the student charged with "willful misrepresentation of a material fact to any member of the faculty or staff of the university in obtaining the use of facilities for SDS when they were otherwise unobtainable by SDS due to its non recognized status." The second charge involves what Sokol called a "corollary charge" of violating the university president's order that put SDS on suspension originally.