Word: aau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Universities able to agree on a single policy statement. This statement denied the privilege of tenure to Communist Party members and said the use of the Fifth Amendment by a teacher means "he must bear a heavy burden of proof as to his fitness to continue teaching." The AAU's legal interpretation of the Fifth Amendment followed pretty much the view first clarified by two Harvard Law School professors in a letter to the CRIMSON on January 13. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. and Arthur E. Sutherland said...
From the San Francisco Examiner to the Roanoke World News to the Boston Globe, editorial comment was enthusiastically favorable, the survey found. According to the New York Herald Tribune, the statement "might have. . .responded only by negativism and obstruction. Happily, the AAU. . .has taken care to see that this is not the verdict. A report six months in the making . . . will stand as an authoritative statement of doctrine, in the light of which men's intentions can be judged...
Council President Paul D. Sheats '54 called the vote to refrain from taking a stand on the AAU's statement, one of the most important decisions of the year. He said both sides of the issue will be presented to the student body to permit the college to make its own decision...
Before the house was a motion by council member Anthony C. Beilenson '54 to censure Buck and the University for signing the AAU statement of "Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and Faculties." But the council narrowly decided not to take a stand...
Beilenson's statement submitted for Council approval read in part: "We feel that statement isued by the AAU and subscribed to by Paul H. Buck as Harvard member of the Association represents a retreat from the defense of academic freedom. . . The statement. . . constitutes an invitation to Congressional committees to continue investigations of the universities...