Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon State, no charges of Communist Party membership had been made. Spitzer, a brilliant, fidgety man of 30, had been an active campaigner for Henry Wallace; his wife, an Oregon State student, was the firebrand of the campus Young Progressives organization. La Vallee, too, was a Wallaceite. Some students thought he was "pretty radical" in his economics classes, but he still taught his subject from standard texts. As for Spitzer, he had stuck pretty close to chemistry...
...about La Vallee, now considered the case closed. Actually, so far as Oregon State was concerned, it might be. All question of the Spitzer and La Vallee cases apart, U.S. citizens could understand the right of a university administrator to fire a teacher for professional incompetence. Did Communist Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted of, might have to chew on another...
...There are no ... passive members of the Communist Party . . . The statutes of membership define a party member as one who not only 'accepts the party program, attends the regular meetings of the membership branch of his place of work,' but 'who is active in party work.' Inactivity as well as disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly...
Last winter, the varsity finished fourth behind Army, Yale, and Columbia. Since then, the addition of Brown has boosted Hep membership to ten colleges. All ten are endowed with at least one or two talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press...
...Membership Required...