FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Students’ Assn. Views It. would be ridiculous to say that the student body of the University of Canterbury was dominated by Communists, said the president of the Students’ Association (Mr D. Botherway) yesterday.
He was replying to a statement by the assistant area officer of the Area 10 (Captain I. F. Forsyth) at the meeting of the Christchurch R.S.A. that many university organisations were under communist influence and this hampered recruiting. Mr Botherway said a university must have freedom of speech and political thought. “We do have minority leftwing groups which play an important part in stimulating political discussion, and it was these minority groups which gave rise to the recent teach-in on Vietnam. These groups called for the referendum on the issue by which the majority of students gave support for the Government’s armed intervention in Vietnam.
“Any move to quash these minority groups would be resented, not only by the groups themselves but by the whole student body in its desire to uphold freedom of speech and political thought,” said Mr Botherway.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30858, 17 September 1965, Page 16
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