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...York, the CP, USA, has been coming out with more and more campus spokesmen. Phyllis Kalb, a student at Brooklyn College, recently ran for student-body president as a member of the Communist Party and, out of 3500 votes lost by a piddling 27. Although Brooklyn College has long had a record as New York's most radical college, the statistics are still significant: many traditionally non-radical students voted for Miss Kalb because she had worked hard on campus activities, and because her program to solve student problems was well thought and attractive. "Most students were not really disturbed...
Michael Zagarelle, chairman of the National Youth Committee of CP, USA emphasized that if Communists identified themselves publicly, it would take a great deal of pressure off other radical (but non-Communist) groups which are presently being Red-baited. How could anyone say that SDS is a Communist front if the handful of Communists involved make their Party affiliation a matter of record, he asked...
Members of the Harvard Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, however, argue that the CP, USA is to the right of their position. Harvard members of Progressive Labor also deny that the Communists are the most radical group around and claim the extreme Left for themselves--but then this is the proverbial geography game of the New Left...
...Harvard faculty voted in favor of the proposition that "'Communists should not be employed as teachers' because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity." Does the faculty still believe this? What would a poll of Harvard students show on this question? Would there be a difference amongst students according to their age, sex, concentration? Perhaps another article is called...
...Communist groups (like the National Council for American Education), the National Education Association appointed a 20-man Educational Policies Commission, including President Conant and Dwight Eisenhower of Columbia, to examine the problem. The commission's conclusion was that "Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical of the commission report felt that a blanket rule should not be applied and that each individual should be judged...