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in the faculties of the University. When Trustees take action which weakens
these faculties, they do great damage to the future of North Carolina - damage
no less harmful because unintended. For this, in a very real sense, Trustees
taking such action must answer to their children and grandchildren and to
generations yet unborn.

In summary of the above it is plain that a crisis has arisen. Crises fall
for the courage and wisdom to find solutions which preserve fundamental principles.
The principle at stake in this crisis is freedom of expression in the context of
high quality advanced education. The Covernor of this State and the Trustees
of this Universi y have no higher responsibility Lhan to accept this principle,
act forthrightly upon it, and stoutly defend that action. If - which we most
seriously doubt - a majority of the people of North Carolina is currently
opposed to such action, it is only because the issue is not clearly understood.
The Governor and the Trustees have it within their power to lead a substantial
majority to understanding and approval - and even if this were subject to greater
doubt than we feel, they are under an inescapable duty to make the attempt.

This statement was adopted by the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee
in its meeting on February 6, 1966.

The Faculty Advisory Committee:

Bernard Boyd
Henry P. Brandis
James R. Gaskin
James L. Godfrey
Cecil Johnson
Eugen Merzbacher
Joseph C. Sloane
William Wells
George E. Nicholson, Jr., chairman

February 7, 1966 Respectfully submitted for the Committee
Eugen Merzbacher, Secretary

STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY STUDENT GROUP

Governor Moore and members of the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees:

I am Paul Dickson, III, President of the Student Body of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am from Raeford, North Carolina. I have
served in the Air Force for almost four years, ten months of that time in
South Vietnam.

I am honored by this opportunity to present the views of the University
Student Body on such vital topics as academic freedom and free speech. I
which to speak specifically on two points this afternoon. The first is Dr.
Herbert Aptheker's proposed appearance on our campus and the second is the
procedures proposed to you for regulating speakers on our campus.

Ladies and gentlemen, our colleges and universities must serve as an
open forum for different views and opinions, no matter how unpopular or
divergent, and guarantee to all members of the academic community the right
to hear all sides of issues. We know that you realize that only through the
critical examination of alternatives can the accumulated knowledge of society
be advanced.

Student Government through its executive agency the Carolina Forum has
always tried to present all points of view. We feel that we have the responsi-
bility to the University to present all points of view - from the extreme right to
the extreme left. We feel that you share our views and realize the importance
of this matter to the educational community. I would like to point out the
speakers we have presented since April of 1964:

Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi
Governor Averell Harriman, Assistant Secretary of State
Mr. Herbert Philbrick, noted counterspy agent of the F.B.I.
The Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. , Undersecretary of Commerce
Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith, prominent diplomat, economist