Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council last night condemned rash student action against congressional investigations of universities and pointedly refused to send a voting representative to a Greater Boston colleges committee set up primarily to agitate against the Jenner Committee...
...Boudin's suggestion in a recent letter to the CRIMSON defeats the purpose he purports to defend. The teacher who asserts his Fifth-Amendment privilege before a Congressional committee must share responsibility--along with the McCarthys and the Jenners--for further encroachments of academic freedom. The hostility and antagonism aroused by "I refuse to answer because it might incriminate me" leads to more persecution, not to more respect for the teaching profession. Refusal to testify creates suspicion and distrust, both in the minds of the investigating Congressmen and in the minds of the general public. Regardless of how justified these...
...Jenner's Senate Internal Security subcommittee plans to open hearings in Boston this Thursday. To date they have reportedly subpoenaed 17 Massachusetts professors...
...papers that now scream headlines of "Reds in Colleges" will not so avidly print the information that some committee or other has found the great bulk of a Faculty guilty of nothing at all. Purveyors of news must always look for the unusual and ignore the commonplace. Jenner and Velde do the same in their public statements...
...blindness to the past records and prejudices of Velde and Jenner, Jones has broken the heretofor solid front of college presidents, starting with Conant last January, who have warned of the necessary evil results of outside investigations of education. President Jones should have looked into past history and the nature of public opinion a bit more closely before he broke the ranks...