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Although the loyalty provision of the National Defense Education Act may appear harmless to many, the University's opposition to the loyalty oath involves much more than mere academic quibbling. The loyalty provisions now in the NDEA (Section 1001f) meet no clear and present security danger, but form instead a perilous restriction on academic autonomy and civil freedoms...
...University has acted wisely in reconsidering participation in the NDEA program. The present, provisional suspension of administering funds should be followed, however, by a declaration that so long as the affidavit remains in the NDEA, the University will not participate in the loan program...
...University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half the loan if they enter teaching. Thus, if the University administered these loans without the oath and were then enjoined to return the funds to the government, full restitution would be necessary. And students who had borrowed with the intention of repaying only fifty...
...weaken the test-case method as practical procedure. Pressure for favorable legislation and the moral example of refusing funds thus seem the best form of opposition to the loyalty oath. It is perhaps not generally realized that, when the University demands the removal of the affidavit from the NDEA, it is fighting to lift the loyalty provision from both the loans, which it itself administers, and from the grants, which the government awards directly. Although the University would not be compromised if government scholarships alone were encumbered by loyalty affidavits, it should still persist in the effort to release...
...AAUP and the complaints of most of the presidents of the finest colleges and universities of the country will be heard, and will result in the removal of the disclaimer provision so that Antoich can participate in the Act.--Reasons Why Antioch College Is Not Participating in the NDEA of 1958, by Samuel B. Gould, President. Issued by Antioch College News Bureau, February...