Word: oaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harold Winkler, former professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley who resigned last year rather than sign the loyalty oath, will take over Government 103. Winkler lectured at the University last spring after he left California. Government 223 will be discontinued this spring...
California University's Board of Regents voted Friday not to reconsider the two-year-old loyalty oath for all faculty members which the Board rescinded last month. Friday's vote was 12 to 5. Such action completely kills any chance of the oath being reinstituted...
...constitutionality of the oath, center of bitter controversy since its adoption in 1949, is being considered by the California Supreme Court. The Court took the case after a state appellate court had ruled in favor of 18 faculty members who had sued for reinstatement after the university had fired them because they refused to sign the oath. Up until Friday's decision the status of these faculty members depended on the Supreme Court's action, but now their reinstatement by the university is expected...
...Board determined to reconsider last month's action rescinding the oath when one member changed his vote...
Ohio State University was seething last week. It was in the middle of the hottest argument over academic freedom since California's loyalty oath controversy (TIME, April 16). The thing that started the row was a decision by Ohio State's board of trustees that all speakers invited to appear on the campus must be cleared in advance by President Howard L. Bevis. While President Bevis soothingly tried to explain that the new decree was simply aimed at out & out Communist propagandists, the faculty and most of the student body protested that the trustees had clamped...