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...present.... For the time being we will endeavor to meet our student's loan needs through our own loan funds; but should this need increase sharply, we will not be able to meet it. We sincerely hope, therefore, that the protests of such organizations as the AAC and the AAUP and the complaints of most of the presidents of the finest colleges and universities of the country will be heard, and will result in the removal of the disclaimer provision so that Antoich can participate in the Act.--Reasons Why Antioch College Is Not Participating in the NDEA...
January saw action at Reed when the student council, the faculty and the Reed unit of the AAUP urged the president and trustees to reject participation in this program as long as the disclaimer was required for participation. The trustees meeting on January 31 gave authorization to the president to act as he saw fit in the matter. Consequently, President Sullivan wired the U.S. Commissioner of Education on February 2 that Reed would not participate in the program as long as the requirement of a negative affidavit was demanded...
...Reprinted form the summer issue of the AAUP Bulletin. Mr. McArthur is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont...
Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the group that first opposed the loyalty oath requirement, reiterated the AAUP's dislike of the proposal, but he thought that the University would "probably take the money...
...maintain that such laws single out members of a specific professional group for unwarranted suspicion, but do not ever accomplish the purpose they seek. True subversives, of course, will have no qualms about signing a loyalty oath, but loyal citizens who sign are then open to what the AAUP characterizes as "the possibility of perjury prosecutions resting on vague allegations or improper and intimidating inquiries about their conduct and their beliefs...