Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty committee, Butterworth and Phillips finally admitted party membership. The committee decided that was not cause for dismissal. The committee also cleared the three who had admitted to onetime membership. But Professor-Gundlach, who still would not say yea or nay, was another matter entirely. The committee recommended he be dismissed for his very evasiveness...
...recommendations-the cases of Butterworth and Phillips-President Allen agreed. His own recommendation to the board of regents: concealed membership was dishonest. "A teacher may be ever so sincere in his belief in Communism, but can he at the same time be a sincere seeker after truth . . .? My answer ... is no." Last week, the board also answered no. Gundlach, Phillips, and Butterworth were fired. The other three were put on two-year probation...
Because University of Washington officials have "violated the principle of academic freedom" in their dismissal of two faculty members on the grounds of membership in the Communist Party, Associate Professor Henry D. Aiken has declined to teach at that institution's summer school...
...three of their faculty members who were placed on two year probation admitted former membership in the Communist Party but proved their subsequent disavowals. They had to sign non-Communist affidavits...
Several other New England college men received recognition from Freedom House. They were: Schrade F. Radtke, president of a national chemistry fraternity at MIT, who surrendered his chapter's charter because membership was limited to "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race," Frederic D. Green II, president of an Amherst fraternity which lost its chapter for electing a Negro to membership; and Levi Jackson, first Negro football captain at Yale...