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August Leroy Strand is the president of Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. He is an entomologist with some pretty definite ideas about "party liners" and their rights to teach. On January 14, 1949 Strand notified L. R. LaVallee, assistant professor of Economics, that he would not be reappointed. On February 8 he told Ralph Spitzer, associate professor of Chemistry, that he would not receive an appointment for the next academic year...
...time Strand gave no reason for his decisions and he did not consult with the Department heads concerned. The professors were on a yearly contract, not yet protected by tenure regulations. In a statement to the CRIMSON, Strand said "We feel that we have the right to select our permanent staff regardless of what our reasons may be . . . Also we do not believe it is essential that college presidents be stupid or blind in defence to the purists of academic freedom, although readily admit that life would be much easier...
...Strand Hits Letter...
This association of strong drink with Class Day is a significant historical strand. In 1693, probably before the advent of the valedictory, the authorities decided to ban the intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class Day alcoholism are sparse, but early in the 1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON...
President Strand, who had explained nothing about La Vallee, now considered the case closed. Actually, so far as Oregon State was concerned, it might be. All question of the Spitzer and La Vallee cases apart, U.S. citizens could understand the right of a university administrator to fire a teacher for professional incompetence. Did Communist Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted...