During the past week, a wave of demonstrations including as many as 3000 students has swept across the University of Connecticut. The issue at stake is the freedom of the college newspaper, the Connecticut Dally Campus.
The first of the disorders occurred at half-time of the Yale-Conn game, 10 days ago. Since then, disturbances have occurred sporadically and are not yet definitely terminated.
Financial dependence on a fee imposed automatically upon all students is at the heart of the Dally Campus problems. Since this revenue, collected as part of each student's term bill, comes by way of college administration, its use in the paper's budget is subject to Faculty review.
The history of the student newspaper's dissatisfaction with the controls goes back more than a year to the expulsion of an editor for what the Faculty described as an "obscene" issue. Later, a commencement issue publicizing the discover of a dead baby on the campus was confiscated, though not with the consent of high ranking members of the administration.
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