Students for a Free Campus

An ad hoc group, Students for a Free Campus was formed in October 1967 with the goal of promoting open recruiting and free speech at Columbia University. The group voiced their opposition to SDS's demands, accusations and disruptions.

Outlining their position, on Monday morning, April 22, the Students for a Free Campus distributed a sheet throughout campus that read in part:

Tired? Tired of an organization that claims to represent you and doesn't. Tired of a two-standard university that gives virtual immunity to SDS agitators while you are subject to immediate suspension if you toss a paper airplane out a window?

Tired of an environment where you cannot listen to a guest speaker and be sure he won't be physically harassed by SDS? Of an environment where your sacred privacy of worship is allowed to degenerate into political showmanship? Must one group be allowed to dictate this university's future....

The question is not one of liberalism vs. moderation. It is a question of whether democracy can survive on a campus dominated by one faction victorious only through physical coercion....