The City College Alumni Committee on Academic Freedom submits the following
petition to alumni of the College.
George Bronz '29

Secretary
THS COMMITTEE
Samuel J. Rosensohn '98 Sidney Hook "23 George Bronz 129
Henry Hazlitt 425 Samuel Klaus "24 Abraham Breitbart '30
Max Grossman "16 Felix S. Cohen '26 Joseph P. Lash 31
Samuel H. Friedman '17 I. Jerome Hyman '27 M. §. Liben "32
Nathan Margold "19 Henry Rosner 128

A PETITION

We, the undersigned alumni of the College of the City of New York, believe
in the ideal of academic freedom.

We feel that students of the College have a right to the free expression
of their views upon such recent events as the use of police to disperse student
meetings on the campus, the suspension of undergraduates, the dismissal of Dr.
Oakley Johnson, the resignation of faculty advisors to the Student Forum, The
Liberal Club and the Social Problems Club and the refusal to these organizations
of permission to meet upon College grounds, the suspension of the Downtown student
paper, The Ticker, the resignation of a majority of the staff of The Campus in
protest against alumni and administration control of editorial policies, and the
banning from College grounds of a new undergraduate publication, The Student.

We believe that the right of students to the free expression of their
honest opinions can best be safeguarded by an independent student press.

We feel that a publication which has won greater undergraduate support in
the way of sales than any other College publication in the last six years repre~-
sents a phase of student thought that is entitled to the tolerance of College
Authorities.

We therefore petition that The Student be granted a charter conferring
the right to circulate and sell its issues upon the City College Campus.

PLEASE RETURN THIS PETITION TO GEORGE BRONZ,
KENT HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

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