License They Mean at Colorado

Out at the University of Colorado, the editor of the student paper, the Colorado Daily, has been removed for repeated publication of libels. Specifically, the student paper published frantic defamation of Senator Goldwater and Mr. Eisenhower, in issue after issue—the writings of a senior, one Carl Mitcham. A single specimen of Mr. Mitcham’s mode of argument may suffice: “Barry Goldwater is a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal.”

Now Mitcham clearly is a nut of one of the more nasty species. For all that, a faculty committee concerned with disciplining students decided that Mitcham’s language was only “injudicious,” and could not be “considered a personal attack upon any individual.” (By this standard, the anti-Jewish libels of the late Julius Streicher would have been only playful, well-intentioned raillery.)

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Out at the University of Colorado, the editor of the student paper, the Colorado Daily, has been removed for repeated publication of libels. Specifically, the student paper published frantic defamation of Senator Goldwater and Mr. Eisenhower, in issue after issue—the writings of a senior, one Carl Mitcham. A single specimen of Mr. Mitcham’s mode of argument may suffice: “Barry Goldwater is a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal.”

Now Mitcham clearly is a nut of one of the more nasty species. For all that, a faculty committee concerned with disciplining students decided that Mitcham’s language was only “injudicious,” and could not be “considered a personal attack upon any individual.” (By this standard, the anti-Jewish libels of the late Julius Streicher would have been only playful, well-intentioned raillery.)