Part Three: 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
Following the publication of the Grand Jury Presentment, the Iowa State University Press published a book for the Iowa Civil Liberties Union entitled Freedom in Iowa. Among many false statements in the book was the claim that the Grand Jury "never defined" the word radicals. The Grand Jury's description of radicals follows.
At this point perhaps we should define to some extent what we mean in this report by "radicals" and "militants" in the context of their behavior on campus [and] as expressed in our interviews and investigation.
I. Their number one goal, both stated and apparent, is that they desire to control the useful university apparatus for a base to promote and direct their activities. There is no apparent limit; [they want to control the] university news media, selection of guest speakers, extension outlets, et cetera.
An example of the power of radicals at ISU was brought to our attention by a citizen who had contacted a department head. He suggested that the coming News Editors' Seminar might be informed by the University of an Official Pamphlet about the techniques of Communist propaganda in the news media. The citizen was told that it was not the business of the university to get involved in politics. The citizen was later shocked to read in the newspaper that an associate professor of history had lectured the editors on possible future problems with certain [conservative] local political groups.
This News Editors' Seminar provided by the university was clearly a political program intended to undermine the rights, credibility, and opinions of citizens who oppose leftist agendas for government and radicals' control of the soft sciences in taxpayer-funded education.
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