And in an "additional view," Sen, Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), who did not vote against releasing the report, chastised it for failing to see the problem in a larger focus.
"Universities are not the only institutions under attack," Ribicoff said. "The family is fragmenting, churches are said to be irrelevant, and the government is stagnating."
But Ribicoff added later, "Student dissent today merely reflects the suspicion among the general populace that headless horsemen are in the saddle leading us through times of trouble and turmoil."
The schools investigated by the committee were the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, City College of New York, Brooklyn College, Vorhees Junior College, North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University, and Howard University.
Chairman McClelland blamed the holdup in releasing the report on members who delayed in making their comments after its initial distribution in January 1970. But a Senate aide said yesterday, "that subcommittee has a track record of holding hearings then years later releasing a report."