Mr. Mandel himself has supplied another conjecture. He feels that his outspoken criticism, in the course of the debate itself, of the Administration's actions in the loyalty oath controversy during the early '50's, and his association with KPFA, may have combined to elicit such administrative restrictions. On the other hand, the University is fearful of having a controversial speaker exploit the University's prestige through over-publicity of his University appearance. No disclaimer of endorsement by the University would be adequate to remove the inference of University endorsement. None of these conjectures is verifiable.
None is, conversely, capable of being disproved.
The embroglio concerning tapes of the Mandel-Schwarz debate was a unique series of events only in that such a series has occurred neither before nor since. It is unique but not isolated. It is of first importance to state unequivocally that, since the debate, KPFA has obtained prior approval to record their own tapes of student-sponsored events. Approval has not been denied them at any time. Many student-sponsored events are not publicized well enough in advance to permit KPFA enough time to acquire permission through the Public Information Office.