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"Europe Our Campus"
BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT, BIOLA SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, INC.
T H E E M E R G I N G P A T T E R N
Great Britain, Germany
T h e n ew spa pe r s on January 29, 1967 carried a lead article entitled "Furor Over Secret Briefing For ROTC Cadets,” by James Steem. The first paragraph of the newspaper item tells the story: " A secret army briefing, warning ROTC cadets to avoid links with 'dissident political groups’ has touched off a furor at the University of Washington that could boil into a national controversy.” The article goes on to state that this brief ing material was distributed to ROTC cadets in twenty-six schools throughout the western part of the United States. It was branded as "political propaganda and a frontal attack on the tradition of academic freedom.” The completely disturbing feature of this furor lies in the fact that (1 ) the ROTC cadets are trained with the expressed purpose in mind of becoming leaders in our armed forces after they gradu ate from college; (2) it is purely a voluntary organization in that students may elect ROTC or not as they choose. In view of these facts, we believe that the cadet should be warned to avoid links with dissident political groups. These howlers who are loudly shouting in favor of academic freedom clearly reveal the fact that the academic freedom they are hunting for is not true aca demic freedom, but merely the type that gives them the liberty to propagate their own anti-American and anti-Christian doc trines and at the same time stifle any other ideas which go con trary to their nefarious notions. What are we coming to anyway if we cannot be certain that the officers in our armed forces are unalterably opposed to any of the "dissident groups” that are seeking the destruction of our country? As stated above, the ROTC is purely a voluntary organiza tion. W e ask, therefore, why in the name of all that is sensible and reasonable, cannot these students have sufficient academic freedom to avoid links with the dissident groups if they choose so to do? O f course it is perfectly reasonable to realize that there THE KING'S BUSINESS
Switzerland, Italy
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