Word: aaup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the idea of forcing people to take oaths for special reasons," Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, explained yesterday. "Why is it necessary for a student to sign an affidavit just because he is borrowing money?" he asked. The Association's protest also claimed that loyalty oaths will not uncover any person who belongs to a subversive organization, since these individuals "have no scruples about signing such affidavits...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, said that the move was designed to "put a little pressure on colleges to raise pay." Harris has written an article on salaries and fringe benefits of American professors which will be published in the AAUP Bulletin...
...Questionnaire was given to testing the constitutionality of the questionnaire but the idea was discarded, both because on the face of it the questionnaire was carefully drawn and seemed quite legal, and because the cost of battling the issue up to the Supreme Court would be exorbitant. The national AAUP protested to Governor Talmadge, the Board of Regents and the President of the University of Georgia, O. C. Aderhold, that the questionnaire was unreasonable, but the governor telegrammed back that he couldn't see any objection to the questionnaire...
...Questionnaire was given to testing the constitutionality of the questionnaire but the idea was discarded, both because on the face of it the questionnaire was carefully drawn and seemed quite legal, and because the cost of battling the issue up to the Supreme Court would be exorbitant. The national AAUP protested to Governor Talmadge, the Board of Regents and the President of the University of Georgia, O.C. Ader-hold, that the questionnaire was unreasonable, but the governor telegrammed back that he couldn't see any objection to the questionnaire...
...stand taken by the Princeton chapter was reaffirmed in the AAUP statement; it dealt with political investigations of universities, and suggested that teachers could be best judged by their fellows, not by "political tests, standards of conformity, and inquisitorial procedures...