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Ohio State University was seething last week. It was in the middle of the hottest argument over academic freedom since California's loyalty oath controversy (TIME, April 16). The thing that started the row was a decision by Ohio State's board of trustees that all speakers invited to appear on the campus must be cleared in advance by President Howard L. Bevis. While President Bevis soothingly tried to explain that the new decree was simply aimed at out & out Communist propagandists, the faculty and most of the student body protested that the trustees had clamped...
...most popular course being Social Sciences 118, "Democratic Theory and Its Critics." Jones has published a number of items on academic freedom, the most recent of which is an article in the latest Atlantic Monthly explaining his reasons for refusing to sign the University of California's loyalty oath when invited to teach there two summers ago. His biggest course here is English 170, a survey of American literature...
Harold Winker, former Professor of Political Science at the University of California who resigned last year rather than sign the loyalty oath, attacked the oath on October 9 at Berkeley before a meeting of the Students for Democratic Action. Winkler, who was at Harvard last spring as a Visiting Lecturer in Government and who will fill that post again this spring, stated that the declaration is destroying the traditions that are the basis for our civilization...
Claiming that there were over two hundred non-signers when the proposed oath was first announced, Winkler said that the number was narrowed...
When the Forrestal statement was printed last week in the newspapers, Wallace published a scorching denial. "This is a lie," he wrote. "I said under oath [in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950] that there was a leaking liar in the Cabinet and the President agreed ... I do not wish to quarrel with a dead man or his widow and children. Their husband and father wished very much to see me a few months before he died . . . Undoubtedly at that time he was trying to set his spiritual house in order. May God rest...