Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although educational institutions, like others, have an obligation to co-operate with committees of the Congress, they also have an obligation to protect their students from unwarranted intrusion into their lives and from hurtful or threatening interference in the exploration of ideas and their consequences that education entails. The American Council on Education therefore urges that colleges and universities adopt clear policies on the confidentiality of students' records, giving due attention to the educational significance their decisions my have...
...extent that they do, they put at hazard the intellectual freedom of the college and the university. This dampening of free in-quiry and expression may affect faculty members and administrative officers as well as students. It is therefore in the interests of the entire academic community to protect vigilantly its traditions of free debate and investigation by safeguarding students and their records from pressures that may curtail their liberties. America cannot afford a recurrence of the incursions made on intellectual freedom...
What is most amazing about the anti-riot legislation is the complete illusion of many Congressmen who believe that they can solve the the problem without givin git top priority. The poverty program is in dire straits; the House has refused to enact legislation designed to protect civil rights workers; it has cut back the model cities program by $425 million; and it has denied funds for rent supplements. President Johnson says Vietnam should have top priority. Congress agrees. But Newark and Detroit tell a different story...
Francis J. McNamara, director of the HUAC, called the Councils statement a "backhanded approach to frustrate the law." Students might answer that their universities have an obligation to protect students from unwarranted intrusions into their lives...
...advise the traffic director and to protect the interests of local residents, the City Council also created a three-man traffic appeal board. Presently made up of two lawyers and an executive of the Cambridge Electric Light Company, this board is limited to an advisory role. But if it receives a complaint--signed by 50 or more local residents--against any new traffic regulation, the board is required to hear the views of the citizens and of the traffic direction, and in this situation they have the power to overrule the director...