Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly three decades, the House Un-American Activities Committee has abused free speech in America with its clumsy attempts to pinpoint domestic subversion. Fortunately, in recent years HUAC has reared its ugly head only sporadically and has become a source of amusement for a good part of the nation...
...most part, HUAC has confined its recent activities to investigating the nation's youth--or more specifically, those groups of young Americans which have demonstrated some affinity for anti-war demonstrations and once-illegal trips to Communist nations. And while its star chamber tactics have lost their popularity of the 1950s, they have come to be sadly relevant to many members of the Harvard community--from civil libertarians to members of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Students for a Democratic Society...
...Young Dems also approved a resolution calling for the abolition of HUAC because it is "inherently pernicious to the principles of political liberty...
Columbia University has already taken similar action against HUAC. In December, President Grayson Kirk said that "Columbia would fight in court" any attempt to get student activities lists...
When questioned in November about surrendering names to HUAC, Dean Monro replied that, although the University generally complies with a subpoena, he was not certain of all the legal issues involved in this instance. "Our lawyers will have to look into it," he said...