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Both colleges had previously refused to join NDEA because of a provision in the Act which required applicants to affirm that they did not support or believe in any subversive organization. President Kennedy signed an amendment Oct. 17 abolishing this disclaimer affidavit...
...same time, Kennedy signed an amendment making it a crime for an applicant for NDEA funds to be a member of a subversive organization which had registered or been called to register under the McCarren...
...Columbia University the Student-Faculty Committee Against NDEA Amendments is continuing to disapprove of the loan program. The committee, led by 60 students and several faculty members, objects to three amendments that Congress added when the disclaimer affidavit was removed...
...letter to the New York Times the committee interpreted the amendments making it a crime for a member of the Communist Party, an defined by the Warren Act to apply for NDEA funds. The committee also objected to the vagueness of the amendment which states the Commissioner of Education can cancel or revoke an award if he thinks an award is "not in the best interests of the United States." The Columbia group protests that this amendment connotes "no guarantees of due process for the student...
Though Columbia has not yet announced whether it will rejoin the NDEA program, Grayson Kirk, president of the Faculty, has referred to the amendments as "not ones we would want to live with...