Part Four: Grand Jury Presentment of "Problems in Higher Education"
Portions of the Presentment of the Grand Jury for the Eleventh Judicial District of Iowa follow, with words added for clarification in brackets. Supplemental ideas are italicized.
Observations in the Problem Area
II. They have a general goal of destroying and tearing down traditional values. [Hateful talk leads to hateful acts, and immoral advocacy leads to immoral acts.] Radical salesmen appeal to idealistic students with words calculated to destroy their youthful faith in their heritage. The following quotations [provided by the County Attorney to the jury] are from one of many paid speakers at ISU.
"I spend about 90 percent of my time now on college campuses. This is the most morally polluted, insane nation on the face of this earth and it is your job to change it."
"And I say to you youngsters in the process of trying to make this peacefully orderly transition of bringing up the constitution over the capitalists, if they offer you too much resistance, then destroy them."
"Let's always remember that flag still ain't nothing but a rag, like all of the other flags on the face of the earth."
This was not an isolated example but [was] typical of much of the educational approach we observed.
In the area of society and human nature, such denial, when implemented, detaches future generations from past experience. Oddly enough, that is the very reason taxpayers fund colleges and universities. Tolerating such foolishness gives a teaching license to those who promote illicit sex, the use of decimating drugs, flag burning, and other immoral behavior [that questions] historically known good.
Such a position on fundamental tenets raises a very interesting question. If the desirability of sexual virtue and the undesirability of co-habitation in single student dorms is, as they say, a matter of opinion--if in fact sexual virtue and many other tenets such as basic honesty are not established knowledge suitable for classroom doctrine--what is the good of having humanities [soft science behavioral studies] courses at all? When a radical teacher lectures, what is he accomplishing with taxpayers' money?
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