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Retired professors should help conservative groups

TO THE EDITOR:

I fully agree with your editorial in the June 25 edition (""Stop censoring: Faculty should help out conservative groups"").

I would add that the University faculty" overwhelmingly leftist though it is should make an effort to avoid being seen as suppressing conservative student groups.

I suggest that retired faculty members be allowed to be advisers to student groups.

A retired professor is no longer subject to having his career advancement or his appointment to this or that committee jeopardized by the resentment — open or covert — of his colleagues if he takes on the job of advising a conservative student group.


J. E. Williams   
Class of '50


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