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Bowles said last week that the Corporation's decision to terminate his appointment was made "without having fully explored the possibilities of postponing the decision" until the constitutionality of the oath has been tested...
Pediosky is challenging the constitutionality of the oath in a suit now pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. If the oath is held unconstitutional, Pusey said, there will be no problem. If not, he said, Bowles will have to sign or be fired...
Pusey explained that Bowles's dismissal for refusing to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath was made effective March 31, instead of the end of February, so that he would have time to sue for reinstatement. Bowles, an instructor in Economics, said yesterday that his lawyer, Gerald Berlin, had not yet filed suit but would do so in the next few days...
...would not be put in jail, and the University's land would not be attached," Pusey said, if the Corporation simply overlooked Bowles' refusal to sign the oath. But such action would endanger the good relations between the University and the Commonwealth that have been established over the last 150 years, Pusey said...
...however, the Corporation had thought the oath harmful, it would not have fired Bowles, and would have taken action through the courts to have the oath nullified...