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The Queens College Alumni Association of Greater Boston has protested strongly against a recent administrative decision banning a Communist speaker and the leader of the Black Muslim movement from the campus.
In an open letter sent to college officials before the Administrative Council of the City University of New York declared the speeches illegal, the alumni attacked the ban for contributing to "a dangerous situation where freedom is eroded and education impaired."
The Association will meet Tuesday, Dec. 1, to consider the Council's legal analysis of the question and a contesting brief prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union. Barton J. Bernstein 4G, president of the Association, said last night that its members will probably again vote to condemn the ban.
He noted that the Administrative Council has, to date, ignored a request to disclose the names of its legal advisers.
In part, the Association's letter stated that the banned speakers, Benjamin J. Davis, Secretary of the United States Communist Party, and Malcolm X, "should be heard by students who have actively expressed their interest in examining American Communist and Black Muslim viewpoints. Confrontation with these views may require students to be come critical--and therefore truly analytical--of their opinions."
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