Word: schrecker
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...since Harvard only let go of non-tenured people—whose employment was not permanently guaranteed—Schrecker says the cases are “muddier” and it is harder to prove the firings were politically motivated...
...University’s approach during the 1950s, Schrecker says, was to conduct its own investigations of any faculty members who came under government scrutiny, and to require graduate students with potential communist ties to “clear themselves with...
...When faculty members were brought up and questioned before some of the investigative committees of that period, the University responded,” Schrecker says. “They were afraid of the public repercussions of not responding...
...There were these public statements which were good,” Schrecker says. “But on the other hand, the University’s behavior was to essentially collaborate with many of the anti-communist investigations...
...always asked, is McCarthyism going to return,” Schrecker says. “It’s clearly not the same thing...