suspended on trumped up charges.
victimisation to be held on 16 March. The last week has seen an hysterical attack launched on the students of Kent University by the ruling class press. Marxist violence overshadows Kent...Stop these student mobs," screamed the Drily Mail, The Daily Telegraph talked of Mob rule in Kent.
These altacks came a week after a campaign to reinstate Joe Cotter, a student victimised on academic grounds, was won hands down. The dean of the faculty involved, Professor Chilver, has resigned, thus fulfilling the full demands of the campaign: Cotter IN, Chilver OUT."
The Telegraph suggested that Kent is now a place of darkness and gloom. What a joke! If there in any darkness and gloom at Kent University this possibly has more to do with the Tory Government's restrictions on heating and lighting than it has to do with the Students" Union. For during the last few weeks more students hase actually participated Rad Weekly 1 March 1974 Page 2 The present trials of student militants at Oxford and Essex Universities, reported on the back page were preceded last month by the victory of Kent students. They forced the reinstatement of Joe Cotter, a member of the Communist Party who had been John McGeown, President of Kent Students" Union and a member of the IMG, describes the outcome of the campaign, which sets the tone for the NUS conference on student / in what goes on at this place than at any other time in its history. 'MOB RULE' This is what really scares the university authorities and the Tory press and i this is mob rade then we at Kent are all in famour of it.
Margaret Gowing, who received no recognition here bul was angointes! to an Oxford Chair in the History of Science told the Times Higher Educarion Supplement Chat there was more freedom of speech in the Civil Service than at the Universily: of Kent at Canterbury.
This has begun to change, The occupation and the campaien against victimsation was characte rised by daily mass meetings. These making bodies of the Students' Union-such is our conception of the direct democracy of those actually involved in the strugele:
Unfortunately this cannot he suid of all those forces whiw call themselves left"- particularly the Broad The IMG has pointed out the bankruptcy of this amalgam time and again, but never has this been more clearly demonstrated than at Kent. Initially the occupation of the Registry received no reply from the authorities on its demands, and students crawled out of the woodwork to organise names for a referendum designed to block the reinstatement canipaign.
of the Association of University Teachers to 'strike" (by 89 votes lo 87 with i2 abstentions) on the kind offer of full pay from the university, put the wind up a small section of the left-the Broad Left, of course Instead of confronting the the seven Broad Left members of the the back of the occupation and called an emergency execulive meeting lo end the occupation. Al this meeting one of their leading spokesmen told us we were defeated and should retreat and cat our losses, Others used more militant rhetoric about "letting all hell loose" i our demands were not met within three These people obviously have a completely hurraucratic conceptin scare campaign inevitably a smail group of right-wing This, combined with the decision BROAD LEFT DISGRACE arguments of the right-wing students.
Student Union exacutive went behind IT WOULD L Stop giving in to these student mobs!
PROFESSOR GUY CHILVER
a result of the campaigt. many workers who have been attrac ted around the IMG in Glasgow as John Freil, one of a number of Maclaren's workers sporting a "Vore Purdie sticker, told us: 1 support The statement says: We have ideological differences with the IMG But in spite of these differences we appeal to all immigrants to sote for the candidates of this organisation? The reasons given are: "IMG has