College discipline not effective
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The chairman of a House committee investigating campus riots said Sunday U.S. college administrators have been needlessly permissive and in effect condoned disorder by not using available disciplinary powers.
Rep. Richard H. Ichord, D-Mo,
whose House Committee on Internal Security opened hearings last week into the role of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in campus unrest, said administrators have failed to use suspension and expulsion of students as "disciplinary tools."
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Like Castroism
Ichord, in a UPI interview, also compared the emergence of SDS to the growth of Castroism in Cuba.
"I would say that SDS has grown up among us pretty much
like Premier Fidel Castro grew up in Cuba," Ichord said. He cited testimony in his hearings by witnesses who said they heard two SDS leaders say at rallies they were Communists.
Ichord said SDS poses "a threat to society and to our institutions," but not so much from the violence as from reaction to the violence. "There is a natural demand for legislation to correct this lawlessness and disorder. This will be legislation that will suppress the freedom of all."
He said action is needed but it should come from the colleges. "I think that administrators of our colleges have, in general, been altogether too permissive in carrying out discipline throughout the colleges of the United States."
"I still think suspension and expulsion are valid disciplinary tools if they are timely used," he said.
No 'Punitive' Laws
Ichord said he opposed so-called "punitive" legislation that
would cut off federal aid to colleges unable to cope with riots, because that would force some colleges to close down. And that, he said is the goal of SDS.
Meanwhile, Rep. William E. Brock, R-Tenn., who recently led a group of young Republican congressmen on an unpublicized tour of American campuses to communicate with collegiate protestors, also spoke out against "the meat-axe approach."
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