Word: affadavits
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...surprise move, the Senate voted yesterday to repeal the disclaimer affadavit--but not the loyalty oath--required under the National Defense Education Act. Harvard has long objected to the affadavit, and in protest withdrew from the NDEA program in November...
...several reasons, most of them political, university lobbies have in the past two years concentrated on lifting the disclaimer affadavit from the Act, declaring in loyalty oath at least "positive" and relatively innocuous...
...Senate action would substitute for the affadavit a criminal provision fixing a $10,000 maximum fine and up to five years imprisonment for any person who was a member of a subversive organization and received such a loan...
Thereafter, Pusey urged the then Senator John F. Kennedy '40 to oppose the loyalty oath provisions, but Kennedy failed in two attempts to get the affadavit repealed. Pusey reopened Faculty debate on NDEA; the Faculty voted virtually unanimously to recommend continued refusal of NDEA funds. Pusey said after the October 3, 1961 meeting that there was "no identifiable support for changing the University's policy...
...student-faculty group urging re-peal of the disclaimer affadavit of the National Defense Education Act will distribute the cards at the dining halls today, to all students interested in writing their Congressmen...