Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university which establishes a definite policy for administration of the affidavit, Byse asserted, infringes on the individual student's freedom. "If I, Sam Student, would be willing to take an oath to get a loan, who are you, Mr. Administration, to interfere with my decision?" he asked, showing part of the problem...
...instigate repeal of the affidavit, Byse would appeal to the public and to the universities, not to the courts. He agreed with President Pusey that the NDEA, even with its flaws, represents a constructive change in the American attitude towards education...
Opposition to the disclaimer affidavit, which loan recipients must sign, was cited by both universities as the reason for the action. In a letter to Lawrence G. Derthick, U.S. Commissioner of Education, explaining the University decision, President Pusey stated that, "It is our earnest concern, while the matter of continuing or expunging section 1001 (f) (1) is still under consideration, to take no action which might possibly be considered as approving the Act as it now stands." He pointed out that a bill which would remove the disclaimer affidavit requirement from NDEA is now in Congressional committee...
...NDEA requires both a disclaimer affidavit and an oath of allegiance to the United States. "The oath of allegiance required by section 1001 (f) (2) makes the disclaimer affidavit superfluous," Pusey continued. The disclaimer affidavit, he said, "is also discriminatory since it singles out students alone in our population--and among students, the neediest--as subjects for special distrust... Since the (disclaimer) provision would present no barrier to those it is designed to catch, it is ineffective... As a kind of test-oath substituting an implied threat of coercion for persuasion in the realm of ideas, it seems counter...
...NDEA provision at which criticism is leveled, stipulates that loans can be made only when the recipient "has executed and filed with the Commissioner an affidavit that he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...