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Around 10 p.m. on a spring evening in 1968, police hauled Oliver M. Lee `51 out of Bachman Hall on the University of Hawaii (UH) campus...
...days, Lee and about 150 others had been sitting in UH's administration building. Most of the others were students. Lee was an assistant professor of political science--and the reason the students were there...
...then an anti-war student group published a flyer against the draft urging radicals to infiltrate the military and "eliminate" officers. Lee was the group's faculty advisor, and when administrators found out, they promptly revoked his tenure offer and said 1968 would be his last year at UH...
...moved to Hawaii in 1963 to take a temporary teaching position at the University of Hawaii (UH). The temporary job was extended twice and, in 1967, the department voted seven-to-one to offer Lee a permanent post. He received a letter of intent from the university granting tenure...
...battle looked lost until the fall of 1968 when the powerful American Association of University Professors weighed in on the case. At its convention that year, the group said UH had violated Lee's academic freedom when it revoked his tenure offer...