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Wh al WEL EEE WI | 00018130 - = _ Q..7 . . to 4 oe: ah ® ee oe. . 3 . : roms . ae . sot » Po SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT - . As the fall semester approaches,. college and universities across the nation are preparing for the resumption of radical cant. pus activity. The tactics seem, in most institutions, intellectually - geared lo cast the students. in the role of co-edeterminators of aca- demic as well as disciplinary conununity policy and on the ether’ . 0 hand to beef ap campus security forces: capable of maintaining order and relative (ranquilily no matter what. Past events (at Hares ret and Columbia, Cyr example) have, in the knowledgeable opinion oof principal administrators, tended to sympathelize college moderates frean buth (acully and student bedy when outside police anthe rittes are summoned. The well-reasoned obiective then of President Cordier at Columbig, Elliott at George Washington, Pusey at Harvard and many others is to keep campus revolt familial if possible, locale. ized if possible and under control within the academic conumune. Undoubtedly, the strong possibility of infringing, limiting, and restricting: Pederat legislation, looming in the bactground, shenald academe be unable to solve its varied problems, has crossed the minds of secondary educators, Notre Dame's president Mesburgh eluquently summed up the societal juxtaposition of the universities in America last year when he said that an inwiluable asset ofa free “socicty is manifested in and enhanced by a. system of educational freedom. Once the teacher is controlled in what he may teach and how he may teach it, other accouterments and vestiges of individual liberty are in serious jeopardy. A number of past hot spots are also trying to remove the cause of protest, be they local problems or general and universal in nature. At Columbia, Dr. Cordier has anteunced plans for building Jow rent, high rise apartments for students, faculty miem- bers, and Harlem dwellers in Morningside Heights (originally a rymngsiun and sports arena was planned.on the property). At Maryland, American Universily, George Washington University, . , ay many other schogls, recruiling of Nepro students is in high ~ -puar. George Washington wilPincrease its Negra enrollment by, my -/ 25 percent (in a total.student body of 13,000, still only about 200 Negroes will attend George Washington in September). On other >