Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gwirtman '54, last night denied knowledge of the bird's whereabouts, claiming that "The review was set in type long before the lbis left. I am sure that my associates and students will back me up when I say that I have never introduced political beliefs into the classroom...
...example, we do not feel that membership in the Communist party per se is either "grave misconduct" or "neglect of duty," even though these 17th century terms of the University statutes are eminently clastic. But recruiting for the CP and similar actions are, because they abuse a teacher's classroom prestige in order to train students for potentially illegal acts...
What applies to research applies equally to teaching. So long as an instructor's observations are scholarly and germane to his subject, his freedom of expression in his classroom should not be curbed. The university student should be exposed to competing opinions and beliefs in every field, so that he may learn to weigh them and gain maturity of judgment . . . In teaching, as in research, [the instructor] is limited by the requirements of citizenship, of professional competence and good taste. Having met those standards, he is entitled to all the protection the full resources of the university can provide...
Since present membership in the Communist Party requires the acceptance of these principles and methods, such membership extinguishes the right to a university position. [The same holds] if an instructor [becomes] a propagandist for one opinion, adopting a "party line" . . . impairing freedom of thought and expression in his classroom...
Present members of the Communist party and those who silence criticism of it in classroom have no right in American universities, and forfeit university support that must always be given in defense of true academic freedom, the report claimed...