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...York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller yesterday declared that neither the loyalty oath nor the disclaimer affidavit provisions of the National Defense Education Act infringe on student rights...
HANOVER, N.H., Nov. 18--Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey today called the NDEA student loan program's loyalty oath provisions "unwise and ineffective...
...university which establishes a definite policy for administration of the affidavit, Byse asserted, infringes on the individual student's freedom. "If I, Sam Student, would be willing to take an oath to get a loan, who are you, Mr. Administration, to interfere with my decision?" he asked, showing part of the problem...
...NDEA requires both a disclaimer affidavit and an oath of allegiance to the United States. "The oath of allegiance required by section 1001 (f) (2) makes the disclaimer affidavit superfluous," Pusey continued. The disclaimer affidavit, he said, "is also discriminatory since it singles out students alone in our population--and among students, the neediest--as subjects for special distrust... Since the (disclaimer) provision would present no barrier to those it is designed to catch, it is ineffective... As a kind of test-oath substituting an implied threat of coercion for persuasion in the realm of ideas, it seems counter...
This question concerns tactics as well as strategy. Even members of the Administration have said that Harvard has no excuse for opposing the loyalty affidavit as long as it accepts the NSF fellowships. Furthermore, if the NSF oath is ever to be repealed, the change will have to be part of a larger crusade, for, by itself, the NSF issue is of little importance to most of the country...