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...worth repeating. Legally, the disclaimer provides criminal penalties for a false statement on questions of belief or opinion. Far worse, any university which administers this vaguely-worded affidavit becomes an instrument of the government, enforcing an official, safe norm of belief. Although it has been suggested that Harvard accept NDEA money and provide separate scholarship funds for those students who refuse to sign the affidavit, this suggestion begs the moral question. In an NDEA loan, the University would provide one-tenth of the money and would have to administer the disclaimer affidavit. Harvard's own funds would thus be placed...
...Price, professor of Government and an adviser to Pusey on Federal aid, also said he saw no reason for the Faculty to reverse itself. He did say, however, that the NDEA "is the sort of issue that should be discussed from time to time," and that there is a group which favors accepting the funds. This group has probably not increased its influence since 1959, he noted...
...reason the NDEA is attractive to education schools, Keppel pointed out, is that graduates can get 10 per cent of their debts forgiven for every year they teach on the primary or secondary level. This reduction can reach 50 per cent of the loan...
...Congress, embroiled in disputes like the one over aid to Catholic schools, gave little consideration to the NDEA, and eventually renewed the Act without change for two years, along with an impacted areas bill. Pusey was invited to testify this summer, but was unable to appear in the short time alloted to discussion of the measure...
Just what Pusey's decision to reopen the matter here means is uncertain. It would indeed be surprising if Harvard changed its tack on the NDEA. But some factors merit consideration...