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President Pusey has several times publicly opposed the "loyalty oath" section of the Act, which requires students requesting loan funds to subscribe to a disclaimer affidavit. He said that the U.S. Senate's failure to take action on Sen. Kennedy's bill to repeal the oath requirement has made the University "reconsider" its participation. The move involves funds totalling...
...also learned that the Committee of Deans had a similar discussion yesterday. An informed source said the Committee decided that each Dean would bring the oath requirement before his faculty according to his own "desire." A wide spectrum of opinion was reportedly expressed at the Deans meeting...
...seems extremely likely that the oath requirement will be discussed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences when it meets on October...
...University, while registering strong opposition to the requirement of loyalty oaths for students, has accepted loan funds under the Act and administered the oath to students. At least twelve other colleges and universities, such as Amherst, Haverford, and Swarthmore, have turned down loan funds rather than administer the oaths...
Howe reportedly went on to indicate that one possible course for the University would be to accept further NDEA grants while refusing to administer the loyalty oath. This would provide a possible test of the oath's legality if government action were to be taken against the University...