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Confidential recommendations by a special M.I.T. Faculty committee will be reviewed by the Institute's Corporation on Monday to determine the future status of Professor Dirk J. Struik...
...Faculty committee, formed this summer when the specific cause for Struik's suspension--the criminal indictment--was removed, will present its report to the Corporation's executive committee Sunday evening. The Faculty findings are understood to include recommendations concerning a permanent reinstatement for Struik...
...Struik was suspended from his post with full pay in 1951, when he was indicted for violating state conspiracy statutes through membership in the Communist Party. In testimony before a congressional committee, F.B.I. undercover agent Herbert Philbrick had named Struik as a member of a Party cell...
...Party-Lining Mathematics Professor Dirk J. Struik was suspended from Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being indicted for advocating the violent overthrow of the governments of the U.S. and Massachusetts (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951). When Struik's indictment was quashed last week as a result of the Supreme Court decision superseding state jurisdiction over sedition charges, M.I.T. promptly reinstated him. Explained an M.I.T. spokesman: "The Institute is [now] free to take such action as is appropriate...
...Struik has been under suspension with pay since September, 1951. He called the dismissal of the indictment "good news for the forces of sanity in this country...