Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the failure of Senator Kennedy's bill to remove the loyalty oath provision, there is no prospect until next session that it will be repealed. For its provisional refusal to use the federal monies, the University deserves much credit...
...Massachusetts politics is far from rational and its followers are distant from altruism. Senate president John E. Powers, now running for mayor of Boston, threw his political savvy against Bill 1030. After all, he reasoned, "We can't possibly compete with heavily endowed and high tuition universities for teachers." The AFL-CIO accused the university of attempting to establish "its own distinctive caste system that sets up discriminatory classification system identifying [teachers] separately and distinctively from everyone else." Finally the Senate Ways and Means Committee delivered the crushing blow by coupling the faculty raise with a general hike...
...protect his own selfish interests." The senator was utterly mistaken. Mather still does not know what post he will assume come next July. His resignation, however brought much public interest into the open; UMass may well have received more favorable publicity in the 31 days between the death of Bill 1030 and the passage of the compromise hike than in the 96 previous years of its history...
...rest of the line is pretty well set, with newcomer Tadgh Sweeney and John McIntosh at the wings and John Hedreen and John Mudd playing inside. The halfback line of Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charley Steele has sparkled in practice, and Captain Lanny Keyes and Tim Morgan insure a strong fullback defense. Tom Bagnoli and Bob Forbush are equally talented in the nets...
President Pusey has several times publicly opposed the "loyalty oath" section of the Act, which requires students requesting loan funds to subscribe to a disclaimer affidavit. He said that the U.S. Senate's failure to take action on Sen. Kennedy's bill to repeal the oath requirement has made the University "reconsider" its participation. The move involves funds totalling...