Word: statues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of its original definition the phrase academic freedom has "no meaning whatsoever" for those in statu pupillari, but is "restricted to the work of professors and scholars." The counterpart of academic freedom in the realm of the undergraduate is "student freedom," implying similar rights and responsibilities. Off the Campus, the faculty member as an individual has complete freedom of action--with the understanding that he will "do all in his power to avoid doing anything to injure his University's reputation." His right to hold isolationist views, say, or to criticise domestic policy and national defense, is guaranteed...
...address to the faculty Dr. Butler stated that "for those who are in statu pupillari the phrase academic freedom has no meaning whatsoever." We feel quite certain that these "wards" of the University will not agree. We do not think that they will hold with Dr. Butler that this phrase "relates solely to freedom of thought and inquiry and to freedom of teaching on the part of accomplished scholars." The undergraduate has a right to assume that freedom of thought and of inquiry is a privilege which extends to himself as well as to members of the faculty. If academic...