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Show Filth on poetry? Attorney advi$$ speaker commissi. "I do not believe that a university campus is a on which radicals of either extreme can violate o' ity." This is part of a letter dated April 20 from Robert n attorney general of the state of Utah, to Prof Alfred of the College of Law and chairman of the special com : to review the University's speaker policies. S;: Mr. Hansen's letter said that the way jn W),jch 1 speakers could be formed without making an "attend 1 by a restrictive speaker's policy" would be to forrnPtt!;' presenting "every segment of religious, political, eeo' 1 view point." ' i It continued that "It may be true in a sense 1 sity is not owned by the people or tax payers of the stai ,' 1 strongly believe that those people can and will mak , 1 known through their elected representatives in such a ' technical property right will be a matter of most acad ' many if the University promotes the idea of Prof. WUliamr (associate professor of law) that 'obscenity is poetry ' The letter it said that statement contradicts the Su the United States, which described obscenity as filth " ! The letter also said that it would be unconstitutional!. t versify to prevent Jerry Rubin from appearing on cam' ( invited, "but I believe that what Jerry Rubin advocated-' been presented much more effectively, and I hope lartt' I of our home-grown hippie type." a He said that it was poor judgment to invite Rubin t0 rf i his very subject was pending decision in a federal court. r "The apologists, if not followers, of Jerry Rubin denv 1 was obscene but he himself declared his only offense (!- s wasn't being tried) was obscenity," the letter concluded. e Prof. Emery said that "as chairman of the commissitf 11 not be appropriate for me to comment on this or any olt?'-this olt?'-this subject while the commission is still deliberating." 1 u n |