1970 Stanford protest and faculty firing of Professor Bruce Franklin

1970 Stanford protest and faculty firing of Professor Bruce Franklin The passage recounts a historical campus protest and a faculty disciplinary action from the 1970s. It mentions no current high‑ranking officials, financial transactions, or ongoing legal matters, offering only a low‑value historical context with limited investigative utility. Key insights: Bruce Franklin, a tenured English professor, was accused of inciting a protest that shut down Stanford's Computation Center.; Franklin was later fired by President Lyman for neglect of duty after a hearing by a faculty committee.; The narrative discusses First Amendment theory and the concept of a "violence veto".