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Members of the Social Relations department plan no formal organization to raise funds for the defense of Leon J. Kamin '49, former research assistant in Social Relations, indicted a month ago for refusing to answer questions before a McCarthy investigating subcommittee...
...mailbox will be placed in Emerson Hall within the next few days, however, under the name of the "Kamin Legal Aid Fund" to receive any mailed contributions. All contributions should be made out to Kamin personally, Solomon said. They are forwarded immediately to Kamin, who holds a one-year appointment as research assistant in psychology at McGill University in Montreal...
When a Federal Grand Jury two weeks ago indicted Wendell Furry and Leon Kamin for contempt of Congress, Boston editors hoped the University finally would provide some dramatic headline material in the case. Once more they were disappointed. Echoing a statement made last August when the pair was originally cited for contempt, the Corporation declared, "So long as the case is pending, we do not think it appropriate to make any further statement on the subject." Such declaration may not make much of a splash on the news pages, but its importance is illustrated by another statement, from McGill University...
...other hand, Furry also has a duty to his own conscience. Both he and Kamin were unwilling to subject others to what they had undergone. Furry felt that in the present political climate even by giving the names of these scientists to the FBI he would be unfairly exposing them to harassment. Whether one agrees, or not, it is undeniable that what he and Kamin did last January took a great deal of courage. In dropping the Fifth Amendment, discussing their own activities freely, and balking only when they were asked to give the names of others, they were voluntarily...
...Kamin will return either today or tomorrow to Montreal to resume his research. Bartlett said he will not be required to appear at the hearing April 18 since it concerns only "the constitutional law issues involved...