Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time Representative Willis (D-La.) of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) introduced a bill calling on the Attorney General to initiate blacklist proceedings with the SACB against "Communist action, Communist front, or Communist infiltrated" organizations. The bill also requires that organizations listed as "communist" attach this label to all their publicity, written or oral; that dissolution of an organization after Board proceedings have begun shall not stop investigations; and that the courts are forbidden to interfere by any means while cases are pending before the Board. The bill passed the House...
...bill becomes law, civil rights and abolish-HUAC groups advocate a virulent campaign against the SACB, while moderates feel an attitude of ridicule would be more effective. These moderates argue that a full-scale campaign might only give the SACB the publicity it needs to carry out another witchhunt...
...investigate this last question--University complicity in the war--poses serious problems of civil liberties and their protection. If a committee along the lines proposed by Hoffmann were given full rope, its sessions might assume a HUAC-like character, with Faculty members being compelled to testify in great detail about their own, and their colleagues', research...
Harvard's President Pusey was requested earlier this year by a Faculty-student group to declare that he would not hand out any lists even if the HUAC requested them. Pusey refused on the grounds that he should not create an issue before it existed. The Council's proposal seeks to abolish lists entirely and therefore eliminate the possibility of an HUAC request...
Francis J. McNamara, director of the HUAC, called the Councils statement a "backhanded approach to frustrate the law." Students might answer that their universities have an obligation to protect students from unwarranted intrusions into their lives...