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What are ''ideological provocateurs posing as journalists?'' Are
there any at Stanford?
a225 1427 19 Dec 88
AM-Dartmouth Review, Bjt,0757
Judge Asked To Lift Suspensions Of Dartmouth Students In Classroom
Clash
By MICHAEL MOKRZYCKI
Associated Press Writer
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - A lawyer asked a judge Monday to lift the
suspensions of two white Dartmouth College students for allegedly
harassing a black professor, saying the sanctions chilled free speech
on campuses nationwide. But a lawyer for the school said the real
issue was ''student misconduct.''
''This is a case with national repercussions,'' said Harvey Myerson,
a lawyer for the students, both former editors of a conservative,
off-campus newspaper. Their cause has attracted support from several
nationally known conservatives, including William F. Buckley Jr.
The students' classroom confrontation with Professor William Cole
erupted after the paper, the Dartmouth Review, called one of his
courses ''one of Dartmouth's most academically deficient.''
Jack Middleton, a lawyer for the Ivy League school, defended the
suspensions, telling Grafton County Superior Court Judge Bruce Mohl
that ''this is a simple case, your honor, of student misconduct.''
''This is not a case which involves their right to publish,''
Middleton said. ''It involves a question of civility, which is
certainly a reasonable concern on the part of a college community.''
''Dartmouth College is a private institution and the code of conduct
under which it operates ... is a contract between the college and its
students,'' Middleton said. ''This court should exercise great
restraint before it acts as a super-disciplinary board.''
A Dartmouth disciplinary panel in March suspended Christopher
Baldwin, 21, of Hinsdale, Ill., and John Sutter, 22, of St. Louis,
until September 1989 for the confrontation with Cole, a music
professor.
A third student received a shorter suspension and a fourth got
probation for the February classroom clash, which heightened racial
tensions on campus. All four students are white.
Baldwin and Sutter are seeking a preliminary injunction to lift
their suspensions. Testimony before Mohl was expected to take a week,
said Arthur Ruegger, another lawyer for the students.
Review staffers said they tried to obtain comment from Cole by
telephone on the critical article, but he declined, calling them
racist. The staffers said that on advice of the paper's lawyer, they
then went to Cole's classroom to give him a written statement
offering him a chance to respond.
The students said Cole cursed and threatened them. Myerson argued
that Cole should have been punished, not the Review staffers.
Middleton later asserted that ''Professor Cole is not on trial
here.''
Baldwin, Sutter, the third suspended student and the Review also
filed a federal lawsuit charging they were targeted for their
outspoken conservative views, such as opposition to affirmative
action and women's studies courses at Dartmouth. The case is pending.
The Review's supporters include such prominent conservatives as
Buckley and Sens. William Armstrong, R-Colo., and Gordon Humphrey,
R-N.H. Both senators attended a Washington news conference in July to
announce the state and federal lawsuits.
One critic of the paper, Dartmouth President James Freedman, has
said that Review staffers are ''ideological provocateurs posing as
journalists,'' though he also defended the Review's right to exist.
Myerson said the paper has been ''a thorn in the side'' of Dartmouth
administrators, and suggested that the staffers could not get a fair
trial from administrators and faculty on the disciplinary panel who
themselves have been the paper's targets. Middleton dismissed the
claim as demeaning to panel members.
Myerson said Freedman, by denouncing the Review during a campus
rally shortly before the disciplinary hearing, fostered ''a lynch-mob
atmosphere.''
Middleton replied, ''This is great rhetoric, but ... the evidence of
this case simply does not support it.'' He said the college
disciplinary code - overhauled after a 1986 incident in which Review
staffers took sledgehammers to symbolic anti-apartheid shanties -
excludes the president from the disciplinary process so he can speak
out on important matters.
Myerson also argued that the suspensions were far stiffer than those
meted out to other students found guilty of disorderly conduct.
Middleton countered that the misconduct may be unprecedented in a
Dartmouth classroom.
Saying the editors ''do not have clean hands,'' Middleton noted that
they taped telephone conversations with Cole, as well as one of his
classes and the confrontation itself, without his consent - in
apparent violation of state law.
Baldwin acknowledged the taping, but called it ''common practice''
for journalists. He said that in the recorded telephone conversation
between Sutter and Cole, Cole began yelling before Sutter could ask
for permission to tape.
AP-NY-12-19-88 1712EST
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a052 0446 20 Dec 88
PM-Dartmouth Review,0587
Reinstatement Hearing Opens For Suspended Student Editors
LaserPhoto CR1
By MICHAEL MOKRZYCKI
Associated Press Writer
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - Rejecting charges that Dartmouth College is
stifling a conservative student newspaper, a lawyer for the Ivy
League school accused two suspended former editors of deliberately
provoking a professor in a grab for headlines.
''What you wanted to do is provoke Professor (William) Cole so you
would get something newsworthy, right?'' lawyer Jack Middleton asked
former Dartmouth Review editor Christopher Baldwin at a superior
court hearing Monday.
Baldwin denied the charge and accused Dartmouth of denying him and
colleague John Sutter a fair disciplinary hearing and unduly
punishing them over a classroom encounter with Cole in February.
Baldwin, 21, of Hinsdale, Ill., and Sutter, 22, of St. Louis, seek
reinstatement before their suspensions expire in September 1989.
Their cause has drawn support from several prominent conservatives,
including William F. Buckley Jr.
But Judge Bruce Mohl rebuffed attempts by the students' lawyers to
argue that the sanctions will chill free speech on campuses
nationwide.
''I do not believe that the testimony along those lines is
relevant'' to the reinstatement request, Mohl said.
Baldwin, Sutter and a third student, who are white, were suspended
in March for the encounter with Cole, who is black. The confrontation
came after the paper called one of Cole's courses ''one of
Dartmouth's most academically deficient'' and denounced him for
''racist rantings.''
The students denied racist intent, but the incident sparked renewed
racial unrest at the Hanover campus. The third student's suspension
has ended; a fourth Review staffer involved in the confrontation
served probation.
The three students and the review also have filed a federal civil
rights lawsuit against Dartmouth alleging they were targeted for
their outspoken conservative views, such as opposing affirmative
action and women's studies courses at the school. Sens. William
Armstrong, R-Colo., and Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., as well as Buckley,
have supported the students.
The staffers of the off-campus paper allege that a Dartmouth
disciplinary panel was packed with administrators, teachers and
students who disliked the Review and were mindful of college
President James Freedman's public denunciations of the publication's
actions. Baldwin also charged that he and his colleagues were denied
due process.
''These students were disciplined and the extent of the discipline
was because of their exercise or attempt to exercise freedom of
expression ... and the newspaper is suffering as a result,'' Review
lawyer Arthur Ruegger argued.
But Middleton defended the disciplinary hearing process and said
''there has been no effort whatsoever by Dartmouth College to stifle
the Dartmouth Review.''
The lawyer added that Freedman - who, like Cole, is expected to
testify in the hearing later this week - ''has scrupulously
acknowledged the right of the Dartmouth Review to express its
views.''
Middleton urged the court to respect the private school's internal
disciplinary authority. He also defended the severity of the
punishment as befitting an ''incursion'' into the classroom that he
said could be the most severe case of such misconduct ever at
Dartmouth.
Review staffers said they tried to obtain comment from Cole by
telephone on the critical article, but he declined, calling them
racist. The staffers said that on advice of the paper's lawyer, they
then went to Cole's classroom to give him a written statement
offering him a chance to respond.
The students said Cole cursed and threatened them. Myerson said Cole
should have been punished, not the students.
AP-NY-12-20-88 0733EST
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a094 0939 20 Dec 88
PM-Dartmouth Review, 1st Ld, a052,0214
Reinstatement Hearing Opens For Suspended Student Editors
Eds: LEADS with 5 grafs to UPDATE with today's testimony
LaserPhoto CR1
By MICHAEL MOKRZYCKI
Associated Press Writer
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - An English professor at Darthmouth College
who is also a syndicated newspaper columnist testified today that the
administration at the Ivy League school engaged in a pattern of
trying to repress a conservative off-campus student newspaper.
Professor Jeffrey Hart, whose son was among the newspaper's founders
in 1980, testified that the Dartmouth establishment was antagonized
by the Review's espousal of a return to a core curriculum based on
the great works of Western civilization.
''The counterculture and New Left people of the '60s and '70s . . .
are now in positions of power'' and are shifting emphasis at
Dartmouth and other schools away from the great works in favor of
such courses as women's, black and native American studies, he said.
The new campus leaders, Hart said, ''select particular groups as
oppressed and lead them toward liberation'' through a
''grievance-generating mechanism.''
Earlier, a Dartmouth lawyer rejected charges that the college tried
to stifle the Dartmouth Review, and alleged that two former editors
who were suspended deliberately provoked a professor in a grab for
headlines.
''What you: 2nd graf
AP-NY-12-20-88 1232EST
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a052 0446 20 Dec 88
PM-Dartmouth Review,0587
Reinstatement Hearing Opens For Suspended Student Editors
LaserPhoto CR1
By MICHAEL MOKRZYCKI
Associated Press Writer
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - Rejecting charges that Dartmouth College is
stifling a conservative student newspaper, a lawyer for the Ivy
League school accused two suspended former editors of deliberately
provoking a professor in a grab for headlines.
''What you wanted to do is provoke Professor (William) Cole so you
would get something newsworthy, right?'' lawyer Jack Middleton asked
former Dartmouth Review editor Christopher Baldwin at a superior
court hearing Monday.
Baldwin denied the charge and accused Dartmouth of denying him and
colleague John Sutter a fair disciplinary hearing and unduly
punishing them over a classroom encounter with Cole in February.
Baldwin, 21, of Hinsdale, Ill., and Sutter, 22, of St. Louis, seek
reinstatement before their suspensions expire in September 1989.
Their cause has drawn support from several prominent conservatives,
including William F. Buckley Jr.
But Judge Bruce Mohl rebuffed attempts by the students' lawyers to
argue that the sanctions will chill free speech on campuses
nationwide.
''I do not believe that the testimony along those lines is
relevant'' to the reinstatement request, Mohl said.
Baldwin, Sutter and a third student, who are white, were suspended
in March for the encounter with Cole, who is black. The confrontation
came after the paper called one of Cole's courses ''one of
Dartmouth's most academically deficient'' and denounced him for
''racist rantings.''
The students denied racist intent, but the incident sparked renewed
racial unrest at the Hanover campus. The third student's suspension
has ended; a fourth Review staffer involved in the confrontation
served probation.
The three students and the review also have filed a federal civil
rights lawsuit against Dartmouth alleging they were targeted for
their outspoken conservative views, such as opposing affirmative
action and women's studies courses at the school. Sens. William
Armstrong, R-Colo., and Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., as well as Buckley,
have supported the students.
The staffers of the off-campus paper allege that a Dartmouth
disciplinary panel was packed with administrators, teachers and
students who disliked the Review and were mindful of college
President James Freedman's public denunciations of the publication's
actions. Baldwin also charged that he and his colleagues were denied
due process.
''These students were disciplined and the extent of the discipline
was because of their exercise or attempt to exercise freedom of
expression ... and the newspaper is suffering as a result,'' Review
lawyer Arthur Ruegger argued.
But Middleton defended the disciplinary hearing process and said
''there has been no effort whatsoever by Dartmouth College to stifle
the Dartmouth Review.''
The lawyer added that Freedman - who, like Cole, is expected to
testify in the hearing later this week - ''has scrupulously
acknowledged the right of the Dartmouth Review to express its
views.''
Middleton urged the court to respect the private school's internal
disciplinary authority. He also defended the severity of the
punishment as befitting an ''incursion'' into the classroom that he
said could be the most severe case of such misconduct ever at
Dartmouth.
Review staffers said they tried to obtain comment from Cole by
telephone on the critical article, but he declined, calling them
racist. The staffers said that on advice of the paper's lawyer, they
then went to Cole's classroom to give him a written statement
offering him a chance to respond.
The students said Cole cursed and threatened them. Myerson said Cole
should have been punished, not the students.
AP-NY-12-20-88 0733EST
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a094 0939 20 Dec 88
PM-Dartmouth Review, 1st Ld, a052,0214
Reinstatement Hearing Opens For Suspended Student Editors
Eds: LEADS with 5 grafs to UPDATE with today's testimony
LaserPhoto CR1
By MICHAEL MOKRZYCKI
Associated Press Writer
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - An English professor at Darthmouth College
who is also a syndicated newspaper columnist testified today that the
administration at the Ivy League school engaged in a pattern of
trying to repress a conservative off-campus student newspaper.
Professor Jeffrey Hart, whose son was among the newspaper's founders
in 1980, testified that the Dartmouth establishment was antagonized
by the Review's espousal of a return to a core curriculum based on
the great works of Western civilization.
''The counterculture and New Left people of the '60s and '70s . . .
are now in positions of power'' and are shifting emphasis at
Dartmouth and other schools away from the great works in favor of
such courses as women's, black and native American studies, he said.
The new campus leaders, Hart said, ''select particular groups as
oppressed and lead them toward liberation'' through a
''grievance-generating mechanism.''
Earlier, a Dartmouth lawyer rejected charges that the college tried
to stifle the Dartmouth Review, and alleged that two former editors
who were suspended deliberately provoked a professor in a grab for
headlines.
''What you: 2nd graf
AP-NY-12-20-88 1232EST
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