Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take all possible legal steps to keep the lists from falling into HUAC's hands. Gilbert Gale '69, head of an ad hoc committee to abolish HUAC, wrote a letter to President Pusey asking him to make a public statement on the University's policy toward a possible subpoena...
...March 6 response to Gale's letter, Pusey said that the University would not commit itself to non-compliance with a HUAC subpoena before such a subpoena was actually served. While the Young Republicans commended Pusey for his handling of the matter, other individuals and organizations were not so pleased. The Harvard Undergraduate Council, for example, urged the Corporation to reconsider Pusey's decision...
...mean that the University would necessarily surrender membership lists. His response to Senator McCarthy in the early fifties shows he does not lack the courage to stand up to HUAC. In the present case Pusey was unwilling to commit the University until he saw the actual terms of the subpoena. Pusey was probably trying to avoid unnecessary publicity. Also, he may have been concerned with possible repercussions on Harvard's relations with other government committees and agencies...
Last year the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan both give membership lists of anti-war groups to HUAC when they were subpoenaed. The administrations of both universities, in addition, gave the students called to testify no warning of what might happen. An ad hoc committee at Harvard is afraid the same thing could happen here. The committee wants to prevent this and has asked the University to make a statement refusing to surrender such lists in the event of a HUAC subpoena. President Pusey and the Corporation should agree...
...University realizes, of course, that the freedom of the student to engage in legal political activities is a vital component of present educational policy. Harvard has never tolerated even implicit outside restrictions of questionable legality on its students. A prompt stand against yielding to an HUAC subpoena would reaffirm this tradition. Pusey, however, has written the committee a letter stating that the University should wait until it receives a subpoena before taking a stand. Pusey said he wants to postpone any decision until he can understand the terms of HUAC's possible request...