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The American Association of College professors has estab
lished criteria for hiring of college faculties since 1915. Every
year, the belief of the organization in the basic requisites has
been reaffirmed almost always, unanimously.
Tkese requisites include a knowledge of facts in the field,
an ability to present the facts, a willingness to comment on
them from a personal point of view, and a willingness to al
low dissension in class.
The Association's ideal professor may or may not have
political connections. He may be a member of the Communr
ist Party, the Republican Party, or a nudist camp. His sex
life may be irregular. He may be of any color and any creed.
These things are considered extraneous and unimportant to
his ability as a teacher.
The only requirement for an able instructor outside his
ability in the field is .that he shall be a law-abiding citizen
of the community in which he lives and works. Where his
non-conformism is without the law, then he is no longer com
petent as a leader of youth.
The association has further attempted to set up sanctions
against any college or university which regulates the private
life of its employees, or which fires an able employee for
, lawful activities or beliefs, what do not happen to jibe with
those of the administration.. ,
These sanctions have been unsuccessfully employed, be-
cause of the usual financial pressure upon men and women
approached by the sanctioned Universities.
Nevertheless, such a statement of beliefs, reaffirmed every
year by the college teachers of the United States, represents
an effort to stem the tide of fear, hate, and corruption that is
coming into the colleges of America from the nation as a
whole. . '
. Where the teachers themselves, those secure in positions
with colleges and universities, fail to maintain this stand, the
local administration, usually under great pressure from al
lumni and state legislatures, will be most likely to give way
to encroachments on academic freedom.
The administration here has not been under the sort of
outside pressure . that recent years have witnessed against
such past educational greats as the University of .California
and the University of Chicago. ,
Nevertheless, certain measures, notably the hidden loyalty
"oath", have been brought to the University with scarcely a
murmur from the faculties of this institution. Several men
were fired for refusing to sign that piece of paper, or answer
ing it the wrong way, and only two men stood to protest.
There have been other symptoms of fear. Professors who
attempt to explain such educationally vital concepts as com
munism, life and literature and history of countries polit
ically or economically at variance with the United States,
are actually afraid of their students. They apologize for the
necessity of teaching the facts, and assure, classes that they
are not revolutionaries.
Active political discussion is no longer encouraged in
Political Science classes at UNC, and economics classes no
longer hear students maintain that a particular system is
the better. "
Unorthodox beliefs are actively discouraged by professors
who never know when some student may report that he is
being tutored by a communist. .
Only a few years ago, a professor spark-plugged a political
discussion group which had to limit its membership, for
working purposes, to about one, fifth of its applicants. No
professor today encourages students to think outside the
classroom, and few are willing to allow much thinking aloud.
The University shall fail in its purpose when students can
no longer learn of tenets other than those supported by the
immediate administration of the nation. The university does
fail to the extent that its members teachers, students, and
administrators suppress ideas. . I
The insecurity of contemporary life is such that fear of
heresy touches every one. The blame for terror, which is es
sentially contagious, cannot be placed on any single individ
ual. .
But unless individuals thrust away fear, express beliefs,
and maintain stands on issues of freedom, that terror must
consume us all. In our situation, the teacher must of neces
sity be the key individual in upholding freedom, though he
shares the blame for loss of freedom with students and ad
ministrators. The faculties of this institution are7 presently failing in
this prime responsibility.
Pro Garvelle
Madam Editor:
" Ths letter written by A. J.
Carvelle in Friday's Daily Tar
Heel was well expressed and to
the point. I agree with it on
most points.
' I am sure that it will be
answered by Bowers, but I hope
net. I am sick and tired of hear
ing him, and people like him,
zUa ! kiTig" the South and its
VIIITE people. I will personally
1.3 t glad when his term is up.
iave had enough of his
lcadership(?). .
Donald Yrexm
The letter from Mr. Wrenn, a
former journalism student at the
University, bore the, battle flag
of the Confederate States of
America. Editors.
Ari f i G a rve 1 1&
Madam Editor: In fact,
Please print this in reply to you're ill.
Mr. A. J. Garvelle's letter of
Friday, February 8: ,
Dear Mr. Garvelle: -Consider
your opinion, no one
will; .'
mentally, I think
You may be one of the famous
Garvelles;
But your: argument frankly
smells!
Leonard A. Merullo
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