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Few strings are attached to the Massachusetts offer, according to the Commission. The student who votes in Massachusetts pays no state income or property tax and is under no financial obligation to the state other than a minimal $2 poll tax. Upon graduation, a simple declaration of intention to reside...
First meetings of the Commission take place October 9 and 10 in New York's Hotel Pennsylvania. Members will discuss alleged threats to and violations of academic freedom, including widespread bans on the magazine, The Nation.
Smith won the commission seat one year ago at the time of his election to an NSA vice-presidency. Last month the NSA Madison Convention renamed him for the coming UNESCO term and the commission's nominating committee promptly placed him on the slate of six it will push for...
On Wednesday morning Archibald MacLeish, a member-at-large of the Commission, will lead a general discussion on the subject: "How Can UNESCO Contribute to Peace?"
Professor Harlow Shapley will enter the fight for wider classroom freedom with a new Commission for Academic Freedom which starts work next week in New York. He named recent text-book and magazine bannings and threats against teachers who "exercise political rights" as the main causes for grievance.