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Show Profs, Art, U. Regents The Faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure is to be commended for its honest and forthright protest against the action of the Board of Regents which removed paintings by distinguished local lo-cal artists from the Union Building last January. We were particularly pleased to note that the professors saw through the blatant subterfuge of the argument that academic freedom free-dom was not involved since the paintings were merely "moved" rather than suppressed. suppress-ed. But why was the report so late? Protesting students, however how-ever many and however earnest, are brushed off by the Board of Regents like so many flies, but the faculty committee which is composed com-posed of persons of real stature in the University community, is a force to be reckoned with by anyone. Had the committee registered this opinion when the issue was still warm and, to some extent at least, remediable, it might have done some good. As it is, the protest seems hardly more than a belated "me too.' And the Board of Regents stiH imposes its arbitrary arbi-trary opinions on the University Univer-sity with utter disregard for the feelings of other segments of this community and in violation vio-lation of all which such an institution in-stitution should hold dear. |