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...Tip” O’Neill in the 1970’s. After she lost—twice—the newly founded center took over the space, and to this day pays the rent using donations from members. One of its founders, MIT mathematician Dirk Struik, was banned from teaching during what Dodderman calls “the dark years of the McCarthy era.” Struik stayed on at MIT, and “he couldn’t teach but they had to pay him anyway,” Dodderman says...
Other academics were not as fortunate, however. Marcus Singer, a former Harvard Zoology instructor, was convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to a suspended three-month jail term and a $100 fine. Dirk J. Struik, an MIT mathematics professor, was indicated for conspiring to overthrow the government of the United States and of Massachusetts. After four years of waiting, the court finally dismissed the indictment...
...House Un-American Activities Committee openly censured Harvard and several College professors for their pro-Struik actions. "History alone will show how many of Struik's students were led by him down the road to Communism," the committee said
...State of Massachusetts indicted Struik on subversive charges and he was suspended with pay from his job at M.I.T. "until the outcome of the trial became known." His case never came to trial and in May, 1956, the indictment was dropped as a result of the Supreme Court ruling denying the states the privilege of prosecuting sedition...
...Struik was reinstated this fall after being formally censured by the M.I.T. executive committee "for his comparative lack of candor with the members of the administration." During the fall term he taught two classes in advanced calculus...