Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action drew a sharp protest from the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which called upon the University to disregard "legally unsubstantiated political criticism . . . and consider only the individual's competence in his chosen field...
Four of the seventeen institutions to reply thus far to the 1954 contract offer have refused to sign, presumably in protest against the security provisions. But the government is not attempting to dicate educational policy to the universities, according to Hartness. "We simply cannot have Communists or subversives in our educational programs and we cannot pay such people because of an act of Congress," Hartness said...
During the 1953 controversy, the government at first claimed the right to disqualify faculty personnel from participation in the courses for any cause whatsoever. Under the pressure of college protests, the Defense Department modified its stand to the extent of making security grounds the sole reason for dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particularly strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lest government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national...
Before passage of the Subversive Act a handful of University of Georgia faculty members submitted a list of objections to the state legislature. The result of their protest was a hastily-added provision for hearings of employees before dismissal, but no appeallate body was deemed necessary. In fact the bill clearly declares that the "holding of public office or being a public employee is a privilege, and no person has any property or right vested in him by reason of his public employment and has only such entitlements as may be conferred upon him specifically by statute...
...special conference was held. At that time Sizemore reportedly told the faculty members that Georgia's list of suspect organizations was to be substantially like the U.S. Attorney General's list except that certain so-called fascist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, would not be included. Statewide protest attacked this omission and the Klan was put back on the list so that in final form it substantially copies the Federal list...