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...presidents believe all CP members automatically flunk their tests because of the nature of the group to which they belong. While this is probably true in the great majority of cases, it is not necessarily so in all. Dropping the blanket over all CP professors without passing individual judgement is playing too carelessly with the rights of tenure...
...Blanket rulings are handy things for university administrators. When places like Rutgers University and the New York City Board of Higher Education use them to fire tenured teachers who invoke the Fifth Amendment, they save all the nasty fuss and publicity that comes with trying to judge each case on its own merits. In their own attitude toward the Reluctant Professors, the presidents of the AAU universities are somewhat more concerned with individual justice. They insist that a tenured professor who uses the Fifth Amendment bears "a heavy burden of proof" of his fitness to keep teaching, but they...
...refusing to support this statement, the Council felt that it would markedly detract from its earlier, widely-circulated policy dictum. In addition, it did not want to appear in favor of a blanket denial of the right of Congressional investigations of schools...
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Harvard has no blanket rule on professors refusing to testify. The Furry case, as well as any other that might occur, will be judged on individual grounds, high University officials have told the CRIMSON...