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Show LLJiJTo those who administer we entrust our academic freedoms. Some have more to entrust, expect more, but each looks for a fair return from his commitment.The conditions under which we labor to learn are admin-istered. Of these one condition is essential: freedom of discussion, unmolested inquiry. We must have a spirit of tolerance which allows the expression of a great variety of opinions.That the administration has a responsibility to keep the classrooms free from the propagandists is true, but it must also protect the academic learning grounds as a field of ideological and philosophical combat.The careful scholar of divergent and unpopular views must be distinguished from the reactionary and protected from the "patriotic" liberals who would drive them from the halls of learning.Those who would drive the radical element from our schools are often either reactionaries themselves who bear little allegiance to the traditional American principles or defeatists who see failure for our own philosophy in open competition. They fail to recognize that diversity of opinion, within the frame-work of loyalty to the American principles, is basic to the university as well as the entire nation.To those who administer we entrust this basic academic freedom to be maintained, to be protected, and passed on with faith and determination to each generation, that they in turn might engender the fruits of a new and changing democracy.Mick JohnsonGeorge Dewey Clyde Governor of Utah |