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Description is exactly "This press release announces the resignation of the four students and four faculty members that served on Dartmouth’s Judicial Advisory Committee (JAC) for Black Students following the decision of the College to place 17 black students on college discipline for their involvement in the clapping demonstration against William Shockley. The JAC statement recalls that their 29-page report concluded that the students should not be charged with any offenses on the grounds that Shockley’s speech amounted to group libel, the students therefore acted in self-defense. The JAC statement further explains that their decision to dissolve was made in part due to the College’s failure to answer any of the arguments put forth by the committee regarding the Shockley incident, therefore demonstrating that “further activities of the Black Judiciary Committee [are] futile” in conversations about race relations at Dartmouth."
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