Pusey's Text

There have been a number of attempts to misrepresent the issue here as being concerned with the use of napalm or the war in Vietnam. No one in a official connection with the University has ever suggested that students should not have freedom to demonstrate in an orderly fashion or otherwise to express their views on these or other matters of concern to them. Indeed they have been encouraged to do so. Objections arise only when they become so carried away by their conviction about the rightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek to restrain the freedom of expression or movement of others who may not agree with them. This kind of conduct is simply unacceptable not only in a community devoted to intellectual endeavor but, I would assume, in any decent democratic society.