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...ACLU statement is strongest on general principles, for some of its specific statements and concepts read as though they were dreamed up in the group's New York office by men who thought it was a good idea to say something about academic freedom and the student, regardless of whether or not their experience particularly qualified them for such authorship...
...meat of the ACLU's work concerns various aspects of campus life, or, as they put it, "Students as Campus Citizens...
...reply to the report, Temple tersely threatened to "release more information on Professor Dunham"--which they had discovered in private closed hearing with him, following his suspension and prior to his final dismissal if the ACLU were to make public this report...
...meantime, the Civil Liberties Union has taken up his case, Temple University has threatened to release further "withheld information" on the professor if the ACLU releases its report, and his lawyer has admitted to the CRIMSON that he was formerly a member of the Communist party...
...Philadelphia branch of the ACLU immediately took up Dunham's defense, charging that Temple had violated due process of law and academic freedom in its action against him. An ACLU committee, consisting of A. H. Frey and Clark Byse, Law professors at the University of Pennsylvania and Henry Sawyer, 3d., Philadelphia attorney, submitted a report--not yet made public--to Temple officials...