Show States President Remarks on Ute Art Exhibit Controversy By ERNEST FORD Chronicle Editor-in-Chief right to individual expression has not been in the student art exhibit A. Ray said said that the administration had requested that the Student Art exhibit be put up in conjunction with the Founders' Day program and that the selection of pictures was done entirely by the art The administration had received many complaints concerning certain pictures in the but had defended the he reported-that he had called up the art department to inquire when the exhibit was to be taken but had not asked that any pictures be removed or that it be taken down ahead of administration did not even know that the two controversial pictures had been taken censorship was done by the administration nor did we pass any judgment on the pictures that were taken down were taken down by someone in the art he said that no one planning a picket had been threatened and that the rumor that an art department official was threatened with his job was a fabrication of someone's matter of the screens the architectural beauty of the had been in debate on the campus for several according to the regents and others have complained that the screens detract from the artistic beauty of the HE DEFENDED the Regents' right to remove the screens without going through the Union Regents were not eliminating the program or function of the the President merely said that the exhibits would have to be shown in another The California Watercolor Exhibit is currently being shown on the third across from the faculty said that the matter had been assigned to the Committee of Academic Freedom and by Henry professor and head of the department of COMMITTEE is elected by the faculty and is directly responsible to the faculty he If any violation of academic freedom is found the committee will report it to the Faculty Council |