Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed a code for investigating committees that would ban one-man hearings, give any person involved in a hearing the right to subpoena witnesses with committee consent...
...veto had "placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The big boycott hit the University of Washington where it hurt-right in its pride over its new, $12 million medical school. Said President Schmitz in his own defense: "I cannot emphasize too strongly that [the ban on Oppenheimer] was not a whimsical or a capricious decision." It had nothing to do with academic freedom, he insisted, but was based on a university policy that faculty members must meet certain personal as well as professional standards. This line of argument, however, was hardly the type to heal...
...hunger strike in Tel Aviv last week, and all Israel debated the consequences. The artist: Moshe Barak, 27, an Israeli of Rumanian parentage who was wounded four times in the Arab-Israeli war. His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages...
...repercussions of Schmitz' action have shown how the scholar can act to protect himself against such measures. On February 26, Victor Weisskopf, professor at MIT, became the first to boycott Washington for its ban on Oppenheimer. Two weeks later, Harvard professor Perry Miller, in turning down a similar invitation to speak at the University in Seattle, declared, "No self-respecting scholar could talk there now." Last week seven scholars, two of them members of Harvard's medical faculty, joined in refusing to appear at a symposium planned by Washington University's biology department, declaring that the ban on Oppenheimer...
...themselves and to their own universities. The actions of Miller and his colleagues--whose records have never been associated with the word "communism"--have had great force in showing the public, as well as University of Washington administrators, in what contempt the thoughtful academic community holds the Oppenheimer ban...