A FEW BASIC FACTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600350028-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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1967 A Few Basic.Facts
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Having read in your issue' of
November 6.a letter by Mr. Car-
lo Valone praising the student
protesters who took it upon
themselves to decide what was
right for Williams College, I
have taken it upon myself to re-
mind Mr. Valone of a few basic
facts.
With all due respect, I would
remind him that Williams is a
private institution and that it
reserves the right to make its
campus facilities available to
whomever it pleases. When stu-,
i natural to assume that they do'
judgments. and values that Wil-
liams represents. If students
don't like a college policy they
have a right to make their views
`known through normal channels;
or, if this is not dramatic enough,
they can pack up their bags an
leave.
Whether the CIA is "tyranni.
cal and autonomous" or, not is
beside the point. The visit could.
just as well have been made by
Ho Chi Minh or the Audubon So-
ciety. The fact remains that the
CIA was extended the use of
college facilities and should have
been shown as much courtesy as
any visitor. What about the
students who had planned inter-
views with the CIA? Why should
they have been forced to re-
schedule their interviews off
campus just because a group of
"self-serving" students , didn't
think the way they did?.I agree
with Mr.. Valone that "the func-
tion of a liberal education is to
free men from the dogmas-and
ideologies of society . ." I do
not feel, however, that it is the
function of a liberal education
to free the student from re-
sponsible behavior or from some
degree of loyalty to the iustitu-
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'tion that grants him that liberal,
education.
Having once been 'a student of
Mr. Valone, I'm sure that " hG.. re-
members that I did not always
agree with hii ' positions, but that
I at least tried td respect his
"right to dissent." How would it
have been if I had.'tried to block
his entrance to the classroom
just because I did not agree with
him? I never tried such an im-
mature stunt, but I. know that if
I had . 'I twould now be finishing
my secondary education in a dif-
ferent school.
JONATI;AN.,PIPER,
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