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From: webber@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Webber)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Accuracy In Academia (AIA)
Message-ID: <6194@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 01:51:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 01:51:27 1986
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References: <530@meccts.UUCP> <3331@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <967@usl.UUCP>
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: add New Jersey to that list

In article <967@usl.UUCP>, jew@usl.UUCP (James E. Wilson) writes:
> In article <3331@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> thakur@mit-eddie.UUCP (Manavendra K. Thakur) writes:
> >....                            Do any of you remember the days
> >professors had to take loyalty oaths and otherwise display their
> >patriotism?  I don't, but many professors and older people do.
> 
> You don't have to remember back too far.  As of three years ago, the
> state of Florida was still requiring these oaths of all teachers and
> professors in their public schools and universities.  I believe they
> still have this requirement.  If I am correct, I believe Georgia also
> requires this.

add New Jersey to that list.  more to the point, is there any state
that doesn't?  my understanding is that such things get put in the
system in time of paranoia (e.g., McCarthy era) and then no one ever
pulls them out unless you can get the Supreme Court in on the act.
[who wants to be "disloyal"?]

---------------------- BOB (seismo!topaz!webber)