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...colleges . . . Communist teachers exercise, as part of an organized conspiracy, an influence far more extensive than their numbers would indicate ... It falls upon the educators themselves to devise criteria and methods to deal with teachers whose adherence to the Communist conspiracy, though not legally provable, makes them morally unfit to teach." As for the teacher who takes refuge behind the 5th Amendment, he "violates his trust and forfeits his right to shape the character of our youth...
...York University recently ousted Edwin Berry Burgum, associate professor of English, as "unfit to teach because of conduct unbecoming a teacher." This action followed the professor's refusal to state before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party...
...officials, that group in education most prone to compromise academic freedom in the past, will stand behind them. Our universities have a responsibility to the public and themselves to expel teachers who have broken the law, or whose totalitarian beliefs so twist their teaching and research to render them unfit for their profession. But they have an equal responsibility to make sure the implication of unfitness that springs from use of the Fifth Amendment, membership in subversive groups, or any other indirect evidence is backed up by fact before any teacher is disciplined. In this way, mutual trust between universities...
...years, testified an Agriculture Department investigator, Fellrath had collected $100,000 from Fort Worth's Transit Grain Co. for blending about a million bushels of cheap Canadian wheat, officially graded as "unfit for human consumption," with high-grade U.S. wheat. Transit Grain exported its low-grade wheat at an estimated profit of some $500,000; the U.S. paid part of the bill by making up the difference between the domestic wheat price and that called for under the International Wheat Agreement. In addition, said the Agriculture investigator, Transit Grain paid about $15,000 to two of Fell-rath...
...report, and last week Professor Burgum was fired. Said Chancellor Henry T. Heald: "Refusal of a member of a faculty to answer questions put to him by his university in an effort to determine whether he is bound by commitments which violate his own academic freedom renders him unfit to continue in a position of educational trust...