Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Group will also work on the case of Joseph Pedlosky, an associate professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. who refused to sign the loyalty oath. Gary T. Schwartz, a third-year student at the Law School, and a member of the Service group, believes that there is a considerable chance of winning the cases...
...petition praised Bowles' "high qualities as a teacher," but did not explicitly condone his stand against the oath. It only stated that Bowles' refusal to sign was a decision which concerned "his private ideas and beliefs," and asked that he "not be hindered from continuing to be of genuine service to the University...
...admiration for the courage of draft-card burners and urged Americans to boycott the war in Viet Nam (TIME, Jan. 21). In the court's view, the Georgia house of representatives was justified in construing Bond's public statements as a denial of his lawmaker's oath to support the U.S. and state constitutions...
Joseph Pediosky, assistant professor of Mathematics at M.I.T., and William Watson, associate professor of History there, refused to sign the oath last fall, calling it an "unjustified deterrent to free speech and belief." They have also questioned the "faith in orthodox nationalism" which they say the oath requires...
Berlin expects the Superior Court to pass the case on to the Supreme Judicial Court, where it will be argued in late April. Because the oath is no innocuous, Berlin believes that its repeal may set a precedent for the repeal of many state teachers' oaths which are more severe...