An update from Iowa:
 
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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
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