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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1970

""Iowa '70: Riot, Rhetoric, Responsibility?"" Page 21

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After turning down an attempt to extend this fund to any graduate who suffers a loss during the estrike, the Senate unanomously approved the original proposal.
The Senate moved to adopt an official statement concerning the activity on campus during the past week. After a lengthy discussion of semantics, philosophy, and grammar, the Senate issued the following statement: "We recognize the right to disagree and respect the seriousness of personal convictions; however, we do not consider behavior which restricts each student's free choice of educational opportunities or academic freedom to be appropriate, desirable, or justified." 
The Senators listened to representatives who had attended the teaching assistants meeting earlier in the evening read a list of resolutions passed at the meeting. Included in this list was the request that the Graduate Senate set up a fund to aid those teaching assistants and research assistants who lose portions of their salary due to their strike activities.
Several senators questioned not only the feasibility, but also the responsibility of the Senate acting as a "teaching assistant's" union. After much debate, the Senate tabled the motion.
One senator expressed his admiration of the Iowa students and their conduction of the strike by saying, "This campus has shown to other campuses that something  can be accomplished in a peaceful way." The Senate took no action on the strike issue.

[Peace symbol]
ART PROTEST
PLASTIC-FOAM SCULPTURES
ON
30 WAR DEAD
TO BE FLOATED
IN IOWA RIVER
TODAY 3 P.M. ON ART FOOTBRIDGE

[photo]

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17 After turning down an attempt to extend this fund to any graduate who suffers a loss during the estrike, the Senate unanomously approved the original proposal. The Senate moved to adopt an official statement concerning the activity on campus during the past week. After a lengthy discussion of semantics, philosophy, and grammar, the Senate issued the following statement: "We recognize the right to disagree and respect the seriousness of personal convictions; however, we do not consider behavior which restricts each student's free choice of educational opportunities or academic freedom to be appropriate, desirable, or justified." The Senators listened to representatives who had attended the teaching assistants meeting earlier in the evening read a list of resolutions passed at the meeting. Included in this list was the request that the Graduate Senate set up a fund to aid those teaching assistants and research assistants who lose portions of their salary due to their strike activities. Several senators questioned not only the feasibility, but also the responsibility of the Senate acting as a "teaching assistant's" union. After much debate, the Senate tabled the motion. One senator expressed his admiration of the Iowa students and their conduction of the strike by saying, "This campus has shown to other campuses that something can be accomplished in a peaceful way." The Senate took no action on the strike issue. [Peace symbol] ART PROTEST PLASTIC-FOAM SCULPTURES ON 30 WAR DEAD TO BE FLOATED IN IOWA RIVER TODAY 3 P.M. ON ART FOOTBRIDGE [photo]