Word: patriotism
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Still, according to Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey, University officials have been taking steps to “educate” both employees and users about the Patriot Act’s specific demands, and what it means for their daily work...
Sidney Verba ’53, Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University Library, says he was concerned about the intellectual integrity of Harvard’s libraries—10 divisions of the Harvard College Library and 90 University-wide—following the passage of the Patriot...
...various concerns people had about the Patriot Act, I think that this was a very legitimate one,” he says. “We take the Library and free access to it and the like very seriously...
Many faculty members agree. John Womack Jr., Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, said he was concerned about the influence the Patriot Act could have on his own research, which sometimes brings him into contact with materials that could conceivably be traceable to Latin American terrorist organizations...
Much of the controversy surrounding Section 215 of the Patriot Act concerns a secrecy clause stipulating that federal request for information must remain strictly confidential. Libraries, in other words, can’t report in some cases whether they have received governmental inquiries...