Word: informs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who argue the he need not inform about his friends have a strong case, on preliminary examination. They argue that such a professor has fulfilled his obligation to the university by ridding it of the imputed guilt often caused by use of the Fifth Amendment. In addition he has very courageously put himself into a position of great danger form legal incrimination. His defenders realize that in placing his judgement above that of an investigating committee when refusing to testify about past acquaintances, the professor runs the risk of erring, even to the detriment of his nation. Yet they...
...their arguments about "tattling," defenders of those who refuse to inform have confused the moral issue. Many people would condemn telling on a fellow student seen cheating in an examination. On the other hand, however, probably few would hesitate to reveal someone caught stealing. The difference in the two situations is, of course, a matter of degree. But the former involved moral hesitation on the part of the informer, while the latter is simple case of application of accepted standards of justice. Recent discussions have placed communism and communistic activities in the second category. The Association of American Universities...
...claim by resigning; and if they fail to do so, they should be removed," the Board has said. The Superintendent of Schools has been granted a considerable amount of discretion in deciding whether or not to require teachers to name their associates; but once he does decide to request information about others form a teacher, that teacher faces the starkest of alternatives--either he must make the decision to inform or he follows the dictates of conscience at the risk of almost certain dismissal from...
...show does only a tiny part of what it is ballyhooed to do (entertain, educate, inform, cultivate, expose people "to the great ideas, the great achievements, the great history of man," enable people to understand one another and adequately replace the direct experience of reality with a TV camera lens), it should be at least great...
...University has announced the formation of a 12-man Committee on Applied Mathematics and Statistics, to inform and advise the Administration of necessary curricular changes in the two areas...