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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Board of Regents The Honorable Wenda W. Moore 2727 Dean Parkway Minneapolis, Minnesota 55416 April 14, 1980 Honorable Thomas Gamec Mayor, City of Ramsey 15153 Nowthen Boulevard N.W. Anoka, Minnesota 55303 Dear Mayor Gamec: Thank you for your letter relative to the funding for the Minnesota Daily and related matters. The Board of Regents agrees that the Minnesota Daily should be a quality student newspaper and that responsible journalism should be taught by the University. The matter of student fee support for the Daily will be reviewed by the Regents and a decision on future fees will be made at the May meeting. The University does have faculty members who have a wide variety of political views. This is ~egarded as one of the strengths'of the University, in that people can read or'listen to a wide range of views and then make- their own decisions. A University is ~ifferent from private industry in that an academic institution is considered a setting for testing ideas and as a place for the exchange of thoughts and ideas, as well as for research relating to medicine, physics and agriculture and other subjects. In addi- tion, I am sure that you are aware that freedom of speech is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. One of the goals of higher education is to provide a broad background for students so that they will be able to select the ap- propriate values for their life. Good values do not suffer by being sub- ject to careful examination, but false values and bad ideas do suffer from such scrutiny, which is why we must permit it to happen. Thank you for. writing and expressing your views. Sincerely yours, Wenda W. Moore Chairman /cb cc: Arnold L. Cox, Councilman David Mickelson, Councilman Gary Reimann, Councilman Allen Sorteberg, Councilman