Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, defendants, are convicted on the basis of what jurors read in newspapers or hear on T.V. instead of what happens in court. Some of this information is never intended for jurors-such as pre-trial hearings on the admissibly of evidence-and none of it is obtained under oath...
...worst happens, and an individual is inducted, he can always punch the sergeant in the nose at the pre-induction physical or refuse to sign the loyalty oath at the induction, a move which usually means a five-month delay...
...ever, given to the College. The twenty-fifth reunion drive is said to be heading toward another record year. Moreover, whatever may be said of President Pusey, his actions in the past do not seem to have been motivated by financial considerations. His fight against the NDEA disclaimer oath didn't ease the University's financial problems...
...over again we are told that he is an idealist, a man of great devotion to principle. It was Pusey's backing, we are told, which allowed Provost Buck to stand up to McCarthyism at a time when other Universities faltered. He waged a fight against the NDEA disclaimer oath which was dangerous and costly to the University. At the time of the Dow demonstration, he vigorously denounced interference with individual freedom of movement...
...actions do stick in the minds of many students. The University scoffed at suggestions that morality should enter into its financial planning when student civil-rights advocates suggested it divest itself of Mississippi Power and Light Co. stock. The University failed to stand up against the Massachusetts teachers' loyalty oath, and fired Samuel Bowles, professor of Economics, when he declined to sign it. Bowles was then forced to go to the expense of enjoining the University's action, until a parallel case involving an M.I.T. professor was settled. Most recently, the President's office arbitrarily banned educational television...