Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia (daily) Spectator said, "The pressure of the un-American Activities Committee has already begun to take effect on the Columbia campus." The student council, Americans for Democratic Action, and the American Veterans Committee asked that the ban be revised...
...their number: "The administration has time and again exerted undue influence on the activities of the student body in its right to protest the actions of the administration by suspending students with hardly any semblance of legality. As much as I deplore mob action ... I must take this way of voicing my disapproval...
Ashby later said, "I knew this action would take place before I accepted my appointment...
...occasion Parker brought some Wallace campaign literature to class at the request of a student. Later he brought more literature to class, and left it there on a "take it if you want to" basis...
...reason given was an old rule that instructors could not take part in political activity. Hale said that Parker had taken part in politics "both on and off the campus." Evidently Hale believed that Parker's action--with respect to the leaflets and the rally--had violated the conditions Hale set forth in March...