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Trustees of Sarah Lawrence College announced yesterday that they have accepted the resignation of Paul Aron, a permanent faculty member who refused to answer questions before the Jenner Committee...
Mather, one of the professors called before the Jenner committee at its recent Boston hearings, declared that the investigating committees "invariably force people to use the Fifth Amendment" by refusing to accept the First Amendment or other ways of refusing to answer...
...Jenner Senate Subcommittee has, however, announced it will return...
...Boston last week, the law school of Harvard had to decide what to do with the second-year students who had refused to tell the Jenner subcommittee whether they had ever held a Communist meeting at their homes. Meanwhile. Boston University was debating the case of Professor Maurice Halperin, the former OSS man and Latin American expert who had refused to say whether he had ever known Elizabeth Bentley. In a sense, the fate of these individuals was only a part of a larger problem facing U.S. campuses last week. The big question on U.S. educators' minds: what overall...
...were not for the personalities and methods of the investigators themselves-Velde, Jenner and McCarthy-the shadow might not loom so large. But the nation's teachers feel they have little reason to trust their accusers, and their attitudes towards the investigators range from resentment to contempt. "For the most part," says Harvard's Mark DeWolfe Howe, "a committee ascertains in a closed hearing the facts it needs to know. Following that, it proceeds to conduct an open meeting, with the realization that the people who kept silent will keep silent and suffer public disgrace." They are, adds...