Word: restrictionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The victim of last week's drowning, David Bachrach '59-2, successfully passed his swimming test, but with the restriction that he not use the boating facilities. This restriction was stamped in an upper corner of the white record card.
Although the loyalty provision of the National Defense Education Act may appear harmless to many, the University's opposition to the loyalty oath involves much more than mere academic quibbling. The loyalty provisions now in the NDEA (Section 1001f) meet no clear and present security danger, but form instead a...
Questions of complexity alone seem to weaken the test-case method as practical procedure. Pressure for favorable legislation and the moral example of refusing funds thus seem the best form of opposition to the loyalty oath. It is perhaps not generally realized that, when the University demands the removal of...
... this affidavit is odious, an unwarranted restriction upon academic freedom of discussion within the educational process, a dangerous precedent for action on the part of the Federal Government, and unnecessary for the protection of the security of our country... Resolution of The Faculty Senate
¶Columbia's Dickinson W. Richards, 1956 prizewinner for his work in cardiology: "Every scientist suffers when there is any restriction, at any level, to the free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no...