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Ostensibly, this is a good set of criteria. Academic tenure is not so inviolate that it should shield people who do such things. But if a Fifth Amendment professor can show himself free of these stigmas he should keep his tenure. This includes Harvard's own problem professor, Wendell Furry, if he comes back from his next testimony still wrapt in the Fifth Amendment. But we see no reason why the same standards should not be just as individually applied to known members of the Communist Party...
...also redefined concepts that have become fogged with overuse and misuse. The educators have shown that academic freedom is not a shield for subversives; it is an integral part of free enterprise--a term which everyone mumbles in the same breath as "mom's apple pie" and fundamental Americanism. They have explained the meaning of faculty tenure, a concept which seems to confuse the public, by comparing it to the tenure of a judge. A professor must be able to teach, securely removed from monetary and social pressure which might force him to hew a fixed line. The university...
...Academic freedom" is not a shield for those who break the law . . . Unless a faculty member violates a law, however, his discipline or discharge is a university responsibility and should not be assumed by political authority. Discipline on the basis of irresponsible accusations or suspicion can never be condoned . . . The university is competent to establish a tribunal to determine the facts and fairly judge the nature and degree of any trespass upon academic integrity, as well as the penalty such trespass merits...
...said, both in the Kansas article and in the letter to the CRIMSON from Mr. Sutherland and myself, there is no legal privilege to shield one's friends by silence. One who is asked to testify to matters which actually tend to show his guilt does not lose the immunity he would have available, by reason of the fact that his claim of the privilege would not only protect him, but would incidentally protect his associates as well. But no matter what a man's code of friendship may be, if he swears that an answer will tend to incriminate...
...first scenes, director Barry Sullivan relates how young, struggling Shields took credit for Sullivan's prize script. This incident is only a prologue to Shields and his ruthlessness. Similarly, after the length and power of the second story, Shield's third betrayal is nearly an anti-climax. Dick Powcll, his victim, seems more the author of mystery stories than prize-winning novels and the plot of this sequence is but a soapy tale from radio serials. But Gloria Grahame, as a latter day Southern belle, drawls with a sultry sugared accent, more than covering any weaknesses in the episode...