Word: burgum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York University recently ousted Edwin Berry Burgum, associate professor of English, as "unfit to teach because of conduct unbecoming a teacher." This action followed the professor's refusal to state before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party...
...September 1952 when Burgum received a subpoena to appear before the Senate Subcommittee he conferred with his department chairman. Although urged to answer all questions frankly, he indicated at that time that he probably would not answer questions concerning his relationship to the Communist Party...
Called before a Senate subcommittee last fall, Edwin Berry Burgum, 59, associate professor of English at New York University, refused to answer questions about his alleged membership in the Communist Party. He was promptly suspended from his job (with full pay). Thereafter, N.Y.U. faculty members began their own investigation of his fitness to teach...
Called before the faculty committee, Professor Burgum declared that the evidence against him was irrelevant, denounced his accusers as professional witnesses. He also insisted that his colleagues had no business prying into his extracurricular activities. The committee disagreed. After 17 sessions and 984 pages of testimony, it made its report, and last week Professor Burgum was fired. Said Chancellor Henry T. Heald: "Refusal of a member of a faculty to answer questions put to him by his university in an effort to determine whether he is bound by commitments which violate his own academic freedom renders him unfit to continue...