UMass Group Protests JLC Campus Inquiries

The Faculty Senate of the University of Massachusetts yesterday passed a resolution protesting the recent proposal of the Joint Legislative Committee on Education to investigate the role of UMass instructors allegedly urging students to practice civil disobedience in opposition to the war in Vietnam.

The resolution opposes "any intrusion into the academic freedom of this institution or its members."

"We afford aggrieved persons ample opportunity to bring complaints to the proper university authorities," the statement reads," and "we have adequate procedures to deal justly with such complaints."

The statements also charged, "This intervention into university affairs has been undertaken without any prior effort to inform the university of the issues involved."