Word: wadman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Wadman is the most discussed man on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches no classes, administers no department, forms no policy. He is the "contact man" at the University between the administration and the California Senate Committee on Un-American Activities. His precise duties are vague and hidden; Mr. Wadman is feared on the campus...
Combs described in detail the work of Wadman at Berkeley, who is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's academy, a graduate of Oxford University in England, and the veteran of 17 years of police work...
...Committee on Academic Freedom of California's Academic Senate backed Sproul up on this point. Mr. Wadman, this Committee announced after looking into the situation, checks only those individuals who are involved in classified research projects. The Committee also deplored the "sensational accounts of the situation at the University of California...
Certainly the position of the administration was surprising, since Combs had had such a different story to tell. According to Combs' testimony, Wadman's job was considerably more powerful than Sproul had indicated. If, after looking over charges against a professor and investigating them, Wadman thinks the man should be removed, he goes to the state Committee and discusses the case. If the Burns Committee agrees with him, the information is passed on to the president of the University, who calls for the professor's resignation. Any professor in the college-not merely those in classified research-can be dealt...
...been given by the chief counsel of the state Un-American Activities Committee that a representative was on the campus full-time to investigate any member of the faculty. The Berkeley administration insists that the average professor, not in classified research, is under no special surveillance. Because Mr. Wadman functions much of the time in secrecy there has been no decisive way for the faculty and students at California to find out all the facts about his job. His presence on the campus is resented in some quarters; there is also fear of misrepresentation or misunderstanding between faculty...