Loyalty oaths? Really.
http://media.www.sanmatean.com/media/storage/paper796/news/2010/11/30/Opinion/Loyalty.Oaths.Really-3963460.shtml
11/30/10
Surprise was recently expressed, at the Nov. 17 Board of Trustee
meeting, that there was still mention of "Loyalty Oaths" in the Board
Policy- leading to the question, do the trustees not even think about
the implications, if they don't have to sign like everyone else?
Trustee Dave Mandelkern referred to the section of policy, 3.15
section 2 which requires faculty to file a loyalty oath, as if it
were some sort of vestigial tail that he and many others had thought
disappeared with the progress of evolution, While many may share that
opinion- regarding the signing of an antiquated permutation of a
Truman Oath as no more bothersome than beginning each board meeting
with the Pledge of Allegiance, there does remain the possibility of
over-zealous interpretations of "loyalty" to consider.
Skyline Professor Masao Suzuki, a self-professed anti-war activist,
recently had the FBI asking him and his neighbors questions. The
provisions of the 1947 Truman Oath executive order call for
investigations of loyalty- does activism to pressure the government
to end a war qualify as disloyalty? Disloyalty to whom? And who has
the power to judge?
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