Ohio State University was seething last week. It was in the middle of the hottest argument over academic freedom since California's loyalty oath controversy (TIME, April 16). The thing that started the row was a decision by Ohio State's board of trustees that all speakers invited to appear on the campus must be cleared in advance by President Howard L. Bevis. While President Bevis soothingly tried to explain that the new decree was simply aimed at out & out Communist propagandists, the faculty and most of the student body protested that the trustees had clamped on a gag rule that would...
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