Word: scared
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Summers invoked Harvards legendary protection of its faculty 50 years ago during the Red Scare, when Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and other government officials pressured universities nationwide to purge themselves of communists...
During the Red Scare, the University’s leaders resolved to stand firm against government probes. But Harvard conducted its own investigations of faculty members suspected of having communist associations, and some of these faculty members lost their jobs...
...height of the Red Scare, while Summers’ predecessors did take strong public stances in defense of academic freedom, their actions did not always match the high ideals that Summers attributes to them...
Schreker says that although the post-Sept. 11 legislation raises questions about free speech, individual rights and academic freedom, the current situation is distinct from the Red Scare...
Despite his politically incorrect beliefs, Pappin says he is not ideologically lonely. “My friends and I are of one mind,” he says. “That means there are more like me at Harvard—sorry to scare...