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Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, has denied that any such "outside pressure" as the Tenney proposals brought about the special oath. All of Tenney's 17 bills were defeated, but the Board of Regents came out with its own loyalty oath on June 12, 1949. Immediately, the faculty, led by Dr. Peter H. Odegard, chairman of the Department of Political Science on the Berkeley campus, protested...
...facultymen saw it, an oath under such compulsion was insulting, superfluous and meaningless to boot, because real Communists would not hesitate to sign it. Governor Earl Warren and President Robert Gordon Sproul, both ex officio members of the regents, sided with the faculty. Since professors already take the constitutional oath required of all state employees, argued Warren, they should not be singled out for another...
...Sproul (N) defeated Plimpton--15-5, 10-15, 11-15, 15-9, 15-13; Clark (H) defeated St. Lawrence--15-4, 15-18, 9-15, 15-12, 15-4; Bacon (H) defeated Fahey--13-15, 15-8, 15-13, 15-4; Hoar (H) defeated Pahl--18-15, 12-15, 18-15, 15-12; Wood (H) defeated Wills--15-5, 15-10, 15-11; Mugaseth (H) defeated Heneberger...
...reason for the widespread mourning was an official statement issued by President Robert Sproul banning liquor and unchaperoned parties for "all fraternities, sororities and living groups." The campus blue law also ruled that "mixed gatherings of men and women shall be restricted to public rooms on main floors...
...Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy Stewart and Joel McCrea. ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman sent warm greetings: "You are giving to the world the ideological counterpart of the Marshall Plan...