An update from Iowa: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 22:31:27 -0500 From: Norman Clark <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list COMGRADS <[log in to unmask]> Subject: New News from Iowa re: free speech ApPrevious message titled something like "Urgent cry for help from Iowa" would be useful reading if this message is unclear. Once again, I appologize if you have seen this message several times. And once again, because of the urgency of this matter, I would ask you to forward this message to listings that you believe would find the issue of free speech and assembly interesting. Today (Wednesday) CAF distributed literature from a table on the Pentacrest in violation of Dean Jones decree that CAF could not do so. Around 10:00 CST security officers from the university arrived to ask CAF members present to remove the table. They refused to do so. Security officers then asked CAF members to identify themselves, which they also refused. The situation was NOT confrontational, but more of a formality since a similar event had occured in the spring. Then security officers began taking pictures of CAF members around the table. When a reporter from the student newspaper arrived and began taking pictures of the security officers taking pictures, the security officers left. Beyond this, no official response came from the administration. CAF plans to hold a rally tomorrow at 3:00 PM CST. The rally will take place in front of Phillips Hall, which is being re-dedicated in a ceremony at 3:30 as the Liberal Arts home (it used to house the business college). CAF will dedicate the building as the first policy-free zone on campus, since a majority of the professors and TAs in the building have signed a petition denouncing the policy. CAF may use a banned bullhorn since the rally will occur on a sidewalk fronting a busy street. CAF plans to continue its campaign to declare buildings on campus as policy-free zones, as well as maintain a literature table on the Pentacrest periodically as long as possible. If you have time, please address your concerns about the limiting of free speech and thinking at the University of Iowa to the following parties. President Hunter Rawlings Jessup Hall University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Dean Jones 114 Jessup Hall University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Your support is vital. Please help. Norman Clark Communication Studies University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 e-mail: [log in to unmask]