Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Forty local chapter members of the American Association of University Professors vated unanimously last night o protest to Congress certain aspects of the government's loyalty program. They adopted a motion calling for protest against two amendments to the National Science Foundation Bill, amendments requiring an FBI loyalty check for all of the Foundation's fellowship applicants...
Norman F. Ramsey, associate professor of Physics, told the meeting that the amendments would lead to a weakening of national security by "diluting" security standards, that they would tend to drive scientists into other fields. Ramsey also revealed that the Physics department intended unanimously to protest the amendments...
Last week the Navy deleted 15 words from its standard loyalty certificate, after just under four months of protest by Harvard organizations and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences itself. These words added up to what the organizations had called an "informer clause," requiring people signing the certificate to report other men associated with groups listed as "subversive" by the Attorney General. It was a bad clause and a dangerous one; it is good...
...once a world student organization with Britain being the last major non-Communist member. The United States NSA quit the IUS in 1948 when the organization failed to protest the curtailment of student rights following the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. Since that time all non-Communist members except Scotland and South Africa have withdrawn...
...British National Union of Students, an organization similar to the NSA, suspended its membership until the Second World Student Congress meets next August to protest the arrest of the Yugoslavian delegation to an IUS meeting in Sofia and the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the IUS in February because that country is "Fascist...