MU bans 'free' press
BY RICK PENDERGRASS
Kansan Staff Writer
COLUMBIA, Mo. Four University of Missouri students were to appear before a judicial council today on charges of distributing obscene literature last week on the campus.
Administration officials charged that three publications-The Movement, the New Left Notes and the Free Press Underground-violated university regulations by using certain "... twelve-letter words describing the Oedipus complex."
Although Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of which the four students were members, was acquitted as an organization, charges are being pressed against the students.
After a 9½-hour meeting Monday night, the Committee of Student Affairs and Conduct issued a statement that "It is only by collision of adverse opinion that an approximation of the truth is likely. We can maintain no lesser posture with respect to distribution of literature."
The statement further read, "We must possess the same confidence in the ability of our students to reject noxious literature as we have in their capacity to sort out true from false."
Censorship was the main topic at a student-faculty rally at the MU student union Monday afternoon.
Speakers at the rally charged Dean Jack Matthews with discriminatory and unconstitutional action in
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banning the publications and disaffiliating SDS.
Concerning the obscenity of the literature, the committee said, "There is no doubt that the literature in question offends the moral code of the members of this committee.
"Therefore, the committee affirms Dean Matthews' authority to reinforce the standards for conduct as they are presently stated in university regulations."
The statement concluded that "The absence of disciplinary action against SDS in no way reflects on the dean of students' integrity, competence or conduct of his office."
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