Word: sanction
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...TIME is to be commended for opening its pages to an examination of academic freedom [May 101. However, it is unfortunate that your article, at one point, may create the impression that college professors employ academic freedom "to license oddball behavior" or to "give special sanction to a teacher's statements when made off campus or outside his field" or to "excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism." College professors have not asked for the kind of exemption you describe. They do insist that they be protected from unwarranted assaults when they teach or do research in controversial areas...
...freedom goes well beyond every man's constitutional right of free speech, and is too lofty to be confused, as it commonly is by whiny teachers or muddled newspapers, with lesser liberties of the profession. Academic freedom cannot properly be employed to license oddball behavior, or give special sanction to a teacher's statements when made off campus or outside his field. It does not excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism...
Last week the Supreme Court refused to consider the case, thereby upholding Deerfield's action-and in effect giving sanction to segregation-through-condemnation. Commenting on the court's refusal, Federal Housing Administrator Robert Weaver said: "The danger now lies in just how prevalent this condemnation device will become. That's the real crux...
...this point the game got all too predictably out of hand. First, Rep. Thomas Morgan, chairman of the authorizing committee, was notably unimpressed with the "rock-bottom" request. He was fairly certain, in fact, that his committee would sanction a figure "something under" last year's actual appropriation of $3.9 billion. Second, General Clay himself, after weeks of haunting Mr. Bell's office and House hearing rooms, began to run wild. He had examined the President's apparent humiliation to his committee's wishes, and had discovered that two-thirds of the White House education was a "paper...
...else, a strong Presidential appeal for aid to education would reassure its advocates that Kennedy believes in his own program, and that it is the opposition of the Congress, not the passivity of the President, which is blocking the bill. Until this appeal is made, Kennedy will continue to sanction, directly or indirectly, the political hatchetry that each year kills aid to education on Capitol Hill...