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When N.Y.U. Associate Professor of English Edwin Burgum not only refused to answer questions on his alleged party membership before a Senate subcommittee but also refused to talk to a committee of his own colleagues, Heald suspended him as "unfit to continue in a position of educational trust...
...Kent ever been a Communist? He took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. So did the other two authors, Richard Owen Boyer, onetime New Yorker writer and avowed Communist, and ex-N.Y.U. Professor Edwin B. Burgum...
Before the Senate Subcommittee Burgum had given two reasons for refusing to testify: (1) his desire to uphold truth and freedom of speech, and (2) his right not to have to testify against himself. During the hearing before the faculty committee, he declared that he should not be required to answer any of the charges made against him and insisted that no inferences could be made from his refusal...
...Burgum stressed that the charges were so drawn as to be unsusceptible of defense, that the evidence was irrelevant, that some of the witnesses were "a trop of paid informers." He generally defied the faculty committee...
...April the University Council met and voted to dismiss Burgum from the faculty of the University...