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...last-minute attempt to repeal the Massachusetts teachers' loyalty oath Monday in the General Court...
House of Representatives voted 185 to 36 in favor of a Committee on Education report rejecting the repeal bill. The action came despite the fact that Rep. Michael J. Harrington (D. Salem), who wrote the bill, asked the House to reject the committee's report accept his bill for consideration...
...Harrington been successful the repeal bill would have been placed before the House for debate on its merits that afternoon...
...Salem representative and the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers previously introduced motions to repeal this oath and a similar one required of public employees; they were unsuccessful primarily because they failed to marshal the support of the academic community. Certainly colleges and universities are not apathetic toward the oath; many members of the Faculty have admitted privately that they resent the oath and consider it discriminatory...
...campaign organized by Bowles and his supporters should provide officials with the opportunity to reverse this neutral stance without engaging in an act of lone defiance. We hope the University will explicitly state its opposition to the oath, and join other universities across the state in a movement to repeal...