00100	To the Editor of the Daily:
00200	
00300		The successful suppression of Shockley's proposed course
00400	in dysgenics by various Stanford institutions including the Dean
00500	of the Graduate School, SWOPSI, and the Freshman Seminar program
00600	shows that academic freedom for those whose ideas offend the
00700	left or liberal orthodoxy is not an automatic corollary of the
00800	successful effort to estalish academic freedom for the left,  It
00900	will require a separate struggle on the part of those who
01000	treasure  academic freedom as well as on the part of those who
01100	want Shockley's course taught.
01200	
01300		In my opinion, the judicious decisions of Dean Moses,
01400	Dean Gibbs, and the SWOPSI board will go down in history as
01500	an action on a Stanford scale analogous to the internment of
01600	the Japanese during World War II.  The action will be seen as
01700	totally contrary to the professed principles of the institution
01800	involved, but substantially unchallenged because it is in
01900	accordance with institutional mores and public opinion.
02000	
02100		It may be interesting to make a list of similar views whose
02200	discordance with faculty and student opinion at Stanford makes
02300	it unlikely that they could be expressed in Stanford courses
02400	except by slipping them into existing courses by professors with
02500	tenure.  (In my opinion, Shockley's only chance of expressing
02600	his views on dygenics in a Stanford course is to slip them into his course on quantum
02700	mechanics where they will fit about as well or badly as the expression
02800	of Maoist political views in courses on English literature.
02900	The liberal-left orthodoxy has shown itself as expert in playing
03000	bureaucratic games in preventing the expression of views it finds
03100	offensive as the right wing ever was (or still is in right controlled
03200	institutions.  Examples: Dean Moses appointed a committee to consider
03300	Shockley's graduate special, a majority of which proposed semi-approval
03400	of his course, but managed to include a gratuitous accusation of
03500	genocide into their report.  The Student Government President, Mr.
03600	McHenry got away without carrying out his duty of carrying out
03700	a referendum on the Indian symbol on grounds of conscience without
03800	any risk of impeachment, the SWOPSI board managed to find criteria
03900	for denying Shockley a SWOPSI course by applying criteria they do
04000	not apply to their other courses, and they managed to delay making
04100	their decision public for two months while they made up the reasons
04200	for the decision.  President Lyman (personal conversation) managed
04300	to avoid taking a personal position on the issue on the grounds of
04400	not wanting to take a decision out of the hands of a subordinate.
04500	
04600		All this is not intended to deny that academic freedom for
04700	all views is a value at Stanford, merely to assert that few are
04800	prepared to make any effort in its behalf.  Shockley had better
04900	not rely on the belief in academic freedom but had better find some
05000	people who agree with him about dysgenics to beat the academic
05100	freedom drum.
05200	
05300		Here are some other views that the majority at Stanford
05400	will find sufficiently offensive that they will use whatever
05500	reasons are available to prevent their expression in courses:
05600	
05700	1. Any view that criticizes the blacks as a group, their demands,
05800	or the groups purporting to represent them.
05900	It is ok to criticize whites as a group, especially Anglo-Saxon
06000	protestants even in the most extreme terms.
06100	
06200	3. Praise of Nixon.
06300	
06400	4. The view that poverty is the fault of the poor.
06500	
06600	5. Support of the U.S. government position in Viet-Nam.
06700	
06800	6. The view that homosexuality is a crime or disease.
06900	
07000	7. The view that homosexuality is not a crime or disease.