Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosopher Hook gave the regents low marks for imposing the oath in the first place. Moreover, in the course of the controversy, "an overwhelming majority" of the faculty had voted an anti-Communist manifesto of their own, i.e., that Communists, because of their commitments to the party, "are not acceptable as members of the faculty." When that happened, wrote Hook, the regents should have ditched the oath and "left to the faculty the enforcement of its standards of professional ethics." That, he thought, was the real California issue...
...Hook found many opponents of the oath, in their talk of academic freedom, just as much in "incredible confusion" as the regents...
During the course of his address, Griswold Wold digressed briefly to condemn the California loyalty oath for university and college teachers...
Monree E. Deutsch, vice president and provost emeritus of the University of California, charged yesterday in a letter to the New York Times that "Communism in not the issue" in the Regents-faculty schism over the "loyalty oath" controversy at that institution...
...Academic Senate's resolution strongly attacked the Regents for failing to stand by its agreement whereby faculty members who would not sign the oath had the option of being cleared by the faculty committee on privilege and tenure. The Senate claimed that in firing 40 members of the faculty after they had been cleared by the committee as agreed, the Board of Regents" . . . has above all violated the principle of tenure, an absolutely essential condition in a free university...