Word: commonwealth
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...bill of complaint, filed yesterday by Gerald Berlin, Bowles' attorney, Bowles alleged that the oath was in viclation of the first, ninth and fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and Articles XII and XVI of the Deceleration of Rights of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...issue in the case, Pusey explained, is not whether the University should fire Bowles, but whether the Corporation should disregard the laws of the Commonwealth. In this instance, Pusey added, the University does not feel there is warrant for ignoring...
...would not be put in jail, and the University's land would not be attached," Pusey said, if the Corporation simply overlooked Bowles' refusal to sign the oath. But such action would endanger the good relations between the University and the Commonwealth that have been established over the last 150 years, Pusey said...
...requirement of an affirmation on loyalty represented a politically inspired interference with the independence of the University. By its hasty actions in this case, the University has unwittingly supported a statute that singles out teachers as a group whose loyalties are particularly suspect. Harvard has acknowledged that the Commonwealth can tamper freely with its affairs. This is absolutely contrary to the University's usual defense of its Faculty's autonomy...
...University need not have battled the Commonwealth to register its disapproval of an oath many of its Faculty members resent. Moral courage was not required of the Corporation. It would seem that if the Corporation had wished to remain noncommittal over the oath, to avoid a brouhaha, it need only have agreed to wait for M.I.T...