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...manner in which the Board of Regents dismissed Fox increased faculty opposition to control of educational policies by the Regents. However, by February 24 of this year 86.5 percent of the 4,000 faculty had taken the oath, but the remaining 13.5 percent were intransigent in their refusal to swear to any oath other than the regular oath of allegiance for state employees. On that date, after a three-hour closed session with Governor Warren presiding, the Regents voted 12 to 6 (with six members absent) that if any employee did not sign the oath by April 30, his "connections...
Under the law, candidates and employees also had to swear "that I do not believe in, advocate, or advise the use of force or violence or other unlawful means to make any change in the government...
...requires candidates for public office, elected officials, and state employees to swear allegiance to the United States. A candidate who refuses to take the oath may run for office, but the words "refused oath of allegiance" must appear next to his name...
...Hampshire's grotesque State House in Conord has produced a pair of bills designed to curb "subversives": an oath requiring teachers to swear allegiance to the state and federal constitutions, and a "little Dies Committee" to investigate disloyalty in the stae...
...schools and colleges. The Rapp-Coudert committee of the State Legislature gained headlines a few years ago when it conducted a controversial investigation of various "subverstive" teachers in the Empire State. And since 1934 virtually all teachers in public and private institutions have been compelled by State law to swear allegiance to the Federal and New York constitutions...