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Because efforts to repeal at least the disclaimer failed in this year's Congress, Pusey chose to present the issue to the Faculty for review. He added yesterday that he did not expect the NDEA issue to come up regularly hereafter, although the Faculty may again review its policy in "two or three years...
...write-in campaign by students, subsequent withdrawals by other colleges, and further protests from college presidents failed to produce much sentiment in Congress this year to repeal the affidavit part of the program...
That summer, a bill for repeal of the oath and affidavit sponsored by Kennedy and Sen. Joseph S. Clark '55 (D.Pa.), failed to pass Congress, and Pusey soon decided that "going on record" was not enough. The academic community was criticized original for its negligent lobby that let the loyalty provisions pass through Congress unnoticed in 1958, and one year later universities had failed to make clear their opposition to the oath and5PRESIDENT PUSEY...
...expected that the disclaimer affidavit would be debated when the NDEA came up for renewal in Congress this summer. In an attempt to gain Congressional support for repeal of the affidavit provision, President Pusey appeared often in front of Congressional committees before the summer...
...affidavit provision is in effect for two more years at least, and neither members of Congress nor President Kennedy seems disposed to fight for repeal...