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...central figure in the proceedings was Dr. Alex B. Novikoff, a professor of of Experimental Pathology and Biochemistry at the Vermont College of Medicine. His refusal to answer questions before the Jenner Committee ultimately led to his dismissal from the University by the board of trustees, despite an earlier recommendation by a special faculty-trustee committee that he be retained on the faculty...
...Novikoff ease began innocently enough in March, 1954, when he received a subpenna from the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by William Jenner (Rep.-Ind.), then engaged in an investigation of subversives in education...
...first, Novikoff appeared to be ready to adopt a course of general cooperation with the committee, which claimed to have evidence of his participation in Communist activities while a member of the faculty of Brooklyn College, prior to coming to Vermont...
...week later, on September 5, the full board of trustees announced the Novikoff was to be dismissed at once from the University with a year's severance...
...review board met on August 29 for almost ten hours of hearings and deliberation. Novikoff himself testified, but refused to answer certain questions concerning his associations unless the board would agree to conditions which it could not accept. The board then voted 14-8 that Novikoff was guilty of "conduct which justifies his dismissal...