Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual in Forum meetings, tonight's discussion is calculated to bring out diametrically opposed viewpoints among the speakers. Ciardi, who was an active campaigner for the Progressive Party in last year's elections, is a vigorous exponent of complete academic freedom and is opposed to any system that would require political qualification for teachers or professors. Sullivan asserts the opposite principle that the state is justified in excluding know Communists from teaching in its schools. Brameld and Muchnick are expected to take stands somewhere between the order two speakers...
...There is freedom, however, to debate governmental policies and discuss programs-but within limits," Mather explained. "Anyone who proclaims that Tito is a knave or a nitwit is going to land in jail in 24 hours...
...author of "Democracy and Freedom," two editions of "The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization," and "The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization," Professor Mayo's books were widely used in many College and University courses. They comprised one of the first comprehensive studies ever undertaken to determine the effects of a highly industrial society on the individual and groups. Most famous of Professor Mayo's surveys is his treatise on the Western Electric Company's experiments on worker efficiency and phychology in specialized assembly line tasks. This book is a standard text in Social Relations...
Most of the forums centered around discrimination and segregation, academic freedom, and the current debate on Federal aid to education. The NSA took a stand against discriminatory admissions practices, citing character and academic standing as the only bases for determining a student's desirability. The organization will work for legislative action against schools which perpetuate discriminatory policies...
...defined academic freedom as the right of a scholar to seek the truth, discuss his subject, and offer conclusions through publication and classroom instruction. It also asserted that membership per so in any, political or religious group or adherence to any philosophical, political, or religious belief does not necessarily constitute grounds for dismissal or failure to rehire...