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...Economics 98 staff met Thursday and, according to H. Francois Wilkinson, head tutor in Economics next year, agreed that an examination would not make Ec 98 more of a rigid course than a tutorial program. The staff felt that some sort of exam--oral or written--was necessary to help in grading...
...exams will not have a set pattern for all the tutorials in Ec 98," Wilkinson stated," nor will they make it a formal course...
...Justice Potter Stewart's ruling waives the Supreme Court's power to determine whether the committee asked Wilkinson to testify because he possessed facts about communism in Atlanta, or simply because he has made known his bitter opposition to its existence. Wikinson was, after all, a stranger in the city who had come there to stir up opposition to the committee. On the face of it, it does not seem probable that he would know much about communists in Atlanta. Yet when Stewart says it is not the business of the Court to "speculate" about the motives of the committee...
...earlier Barenblatt decision. For example, under a "balancing test" the Court had ruled that Congressional committees could curtail or abridge First Amendment rights only when the Court itself decides that a committee's needs (national defense, internal security) outweigh considerations of rights. But, as Black says, the Wilkinson decision throws away the Court's power to determine whether a committee's needs are pressing or spurious. Taking what the House Un-American Activities Committee says at face value makes a mockery of any "balancing test...
...then the fact that he is also an opponent of the committee should not excuse him from being questioned. But surely the burden of showing reasonable grounds for a subpoena rests on the committee's shoulders. In this case, it has only the word of a paid informant that Wilkinson is a communist and might know something about Reds in the South. Black points out that the House committee has never had much trouble finding paid informants willing to call anybody a communist. There is no guarantee that it has not dealt under-handedly with Wilkinson, and if the mere...