Student Power or the Right of Dissent?

Since the student demonstration against the Board of Trustees’ decision barring Dick Gregory from the Calvin College campus took place (cf. Beacon Lights, January, 1968), the Board has defended its decision by giving the rationale behind it.* It said, “We do not question your (students’) right to discuss varying points of view on the important social issues of the day. . . . However, the abrasively vulgar manner of his presentation and style, known to members of the executive Committee from...