Word: avc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fenced in by a lack of money on one side, and lack of rooms on the other, the AVC squawked loudly in February, 1948 when the administration proposed a 30 percent room rent rise to cover a deficit in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The chapter charged that the University had not exhausted all sources at its disposal and declared the money could "come from elsewhere." It settled the problem by having all "hardship" cases seek aid through proper Harvard channels...
...AVC launched a drive against loyalty oaths in December 1949, when it attacked the "stool pigeon" clause in the oath required of all Navy men, including Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members. The clause, compelling Navy men to name all persons connected with groups listed as subversive by the Justice Department, was called a "menace to American freedom and a special threat to academic freedom...
Gootenberg sent copies of the protest to Congressmen and several national organizations. The AVC's action was "felt round the world", and in March the Navy Department struck the clause out of the oath. A Navy official claimed that agitation at Harvard was the principal reason for removal of the 15-word clause...
...AVC enlarged upon one of its earlier ideas in March, 1948, when it opened the first political action school for the education of the voter and the person interested in politics. In the fall of 1946 it had started a "make every vet a voter" program by setting up a booth in front of Widener and giving veterans information on candidates and outlining requirements for registration and voting in all the states...
...Dean Bender praised the AVC record and called the chapter "one of the most hopeful things to come out of the war," Dean Bender was right...