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black eye of the University of California in Berkeley

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last year -- but there has been no institution in this

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country that has made the progress, that had made the

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contribution to our defense during the war years, that

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has more Nobel Prize winners, than the University of

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California. This is not just autonomy. This is govern-

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mental support of higher education.

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MRS. FREEDLANDER: I'm a member of the

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Declaration of Rights Committee and would like to take

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advantage of your being here to ask a question. Although

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you indicated that academic freedom has a self-policing

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aspect because of the accreditation of institutions,

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would you conceive of having such a provision in the

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Declaration of Rights to protect all institutions,

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including public schools and the like, because every

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once in a while righteous groups get up their dander and

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say what books should be used in schools and what

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teachers should or should not teach?

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Do you believe that there is a place in the

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Declaration of Rights for a general provision on academic

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freedom?