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...objections to the loyalty oath provisions--particularly to the disclaimer affidavit--have been made clear time and again; they warrant only quick review now. The affidavit is obnoxious because it is a vaguely worded attempt to assure conformity to an officially "safe" norm of belief; because it singles out the academic community for suspicion of disloyalty and requires that students, unlike any other class of people, must reaffirm in writing that they are loyal; because it constitutes a dangerous Chauvinist precedent for any future federal aid to education acts; because, finally, it alienates the loyal while failing to protect...
...Democratic junior Senator from New Jersey told the CRIMSON yesterday that in his opinion the Kennedy-Clark bill to remove the loyalty oath affidavit and oath from the NDEA faces an unpromising future. Williams is a member of the Labor and Public Welfare committee to which the bill was referred last July...
Harvard students and faculty display an impressive homogeneity in their liberalism. The Corporation's suspension of the NDEA funds, the CRIMSON'S feature articles and editorials leveled against the "loyalty oath," and the obvious widespread student agreement with the same indicate an unusually common attitude toward the current issue. There is no controversy as there was two years ago and, consequently no real action. That is to say that since we all individually believe in, and affirm the rightness of opposition to the loyalty oath, we feel that our personal moral responsibilities have been met. But does not a social...
...CRIMSON too is guilty. While it has run many articles pointing to the immediate and potential dangers of the loyalty oath, describing faculty attitudes, and reviewing Congressional action, not once has it been suggested that Harvard students ought to do something. Failing to see the "ought," no "what's" have been proposed...
Does each student know how his senators voted on the Kennedy-Clark amendment? Does each student's home town realize the implications of a loyalty oath? Would home town newspapers print articles by Harvard students? Where is the Harvard Liberal Union? What connections do they have with the liberal unions across the country? Where is the Student Council? How do the student councils and newspapers in other colleges feel? Where are letters to congressmen? Where is the dedicated fervor and concrete action? Or is not this issue really worth the effort...