Tuesday, October 17, 1967
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Student 'bill of rights' drafted
Every student should know he now has his own bill of rights.
It's a document entitled "A Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students."
The idea students have special rights and they should make these rights known dates from the Berkeley free speech movement of 1964.
Conference drafts bill
The proposed bill or rights resulted from a meeting of 33 representatives from 10 national educational organizations, called together under the auspices of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) nearly one year ago.
The document makes rights of students a matter of record.
The drafting included a representative from the AAUP, the Association of American Colleges (AAC), the U.S. National Student Association (USNSA), the National Associations of Student Personnel Administrators (NAS-
PA), and the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors (NAWDC).
The bill of rights is being considered for national endorsement by 10 major national education organizations according to a report in "Colleges and University Business."
Rights listed
Some of the rights of students cited in the bill are:
- Protection of freedom of expression. "Students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion, but they are responsible for learning the content of course of study for which they are enrolled."
- Protection against improper academic evaluation. "Students should have protection through orderly procedures against prejudice or capricious academic evaluation. At the same time they
are responsible for maintaining standards of academic performance established for each course in which they are enrolled."
"Disciplinary proceedings should be instituted only for violations of standards of conduct formulated with significant student participation and published in advance...," the bill of rights states.
- Protection against improper disclosure. "Information about student views, beliefs, and political association which professors acquire in the course of their work as instructors, advisers and counselors should be kept confidential."
The document also covers off campus freedom of students and procedural standards in disciplinary proceedings.
In the section on student records there is a provision that no records should be kept which reflect the political activities or beliefs of the students.
Aussies will add to troops in Viet war
CANBERRA—(UPI)—Australia today announced it is raising its troop strength in Vietnam from 6,300 to 8,000 men by year's end.
New Zealand announced it is sending another 170 men to raise its troops in the war zone to 546.
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt told parliament an extra battalion of helicopter support units will be sent in November and December. Other units, including pilots to fly with U.S. Marines, and combat construction crews will also be sent.
At Wellington, New Zealand, Prime Minister Keith Holyoake said an infantry company now on duty in Malaysia will be sent to South Vietnam in November or December.
Hussein, Nasser may seek peace
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Goldberg was reported playing the role of a mediator, seeking a peace formula acceptable to both the Arabs and the Israelis.
Sir Harold Beeley, the former British ambassador to Egypt, worked behind the scenes in the Egyptian capital on the second day of his Midwest peace mission.
By United Press International
At United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg imposed a curtain of secrecy on his talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and other diplomats with a stake in the dilemma.
Some quarters sensed a feeling of give and take on both sides, but on the surface the issue seemed just as deadlocked as it was when Israel won the war and occupied large areas of Arab territory.
Secret high-level talks in Cairo and New York today increased hopes for some movement toward a Middle East peace agreement.
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King Hussein of Jordan, one of the Arab world's moderates, flew to Cairo for a meeting with President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the self-proclaimed leader of Arab militants in the long dispute with Israel.
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"This country has its priorities lined up all wrong," he said. "Education is more important than the war in Vietnam.
"The war used to be a fight for self-determination for the South Vietnamese," he said. "But now they are starting to call it a war of containment of Asian communism."
Some critics of U.S. policy in Vietnam have accused President Johnson of using the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by congress as a virtual blank check to escalate the war.
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h voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1854, "I had not the slightest suspicion that Viet Cong gunboats had fired on U.S. ships.
"Now I have reservations about it." Fulbright said.
Fulbright spoke to 450 members of the Arkansas Classroom Teachers Association.
"In spite of my many inquiries to the Pentagen, I cannot be sure it was a provoked incident."
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