To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Perhaps I am wrong, but to me even the horrors of war do not justify the abuse of others' rights. This was something more than an "inconvenience to the University," as the CRIMSON dismisses it. It was the deliberate imprisonment of two men for the crime of recruitment for a company which works for a government which pursues a policy with which many, at the moment, do not agree. It was a denial of the right of other members of this community to disagree with the conclusions of the three hundred and speak to the interviewers. That their imprisonment was a relatively pleasant one and that the inconvenience to Dow and to other students may not be critical is not of much importance. For as the CRIMSON has always (until now) recognized, any abridgement of our liberties is too great to tolerate.

If the freedoms of this university of this country are reserved only to those on the "right" side of a given issue, then they don't seem to me to be worth very much. One would think that those who support the right of dissent against the policies of their government would be more aware of this. John F. Shelley '65