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Philosopher Hook gave the regents low marks for imposing the oath in the first place. Moreover, in the course of the controversy, "an overwhelming majority" of the faculty had voted an anti-Communist manifesto of their own, i.e., that Communists, because of their commitments to the party, "are not acceptable as members of the faculty." When that happened, wrote Hook, the regents should have ditched the oath and "left to the faculty the enforcement of its standards of professional ethics." That, he thought, was the real California issue...
...Hook found many opponents of the oath, in their talk of academic freedom, just as much in "incredible confusion" as the regents...
...true," he said, "that the request for an oath is per se a violation of academic freedom. To 98 per cent of the faculty a statement disavowing membership in the Communist Party is like a statement against sin, and 100 per cent have cheerfully taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this...
During the course of his address, Griswold Wold digressed briefly to condemn the California loyalty oath for university and college teachers...
...Academic Senate's resolution strongly attacked the Regents for failing to stand by its agreement whereby faculty members who would not sign the oath had the option of being cleared by the faculty committee on privilege and tenure. The Senate claimed that in firing 40 members of the faculty after they had been cleared by the committee as agreed, the Board of Regents" . . . has above all violated the principle of tenure, an absolutely essential condition in a free university...