Well, it does depend on the subject. My biology professor left in the middle of the school year to help Castro harvest sugar cane. My Soviet history professor was no communist.
Born in Germany, Professor Von Laue was sent by his father, Nobel physicist Max Von Laue, to study at Princeton University in 1937. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1944 and also served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in World War II. Before coming to Clark University in 1970 he taught in the University of California, Riverside, and Washington University, St Louis. He was a specialist in Russian and Soviet history, but his wide-ranging interests included West African history, global history in the twentieth century, and the future. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland 1954-55, and a Guggenheim Fellow 1961-62 and 1974-75. He wrote innumerable articles and six books. His aim as a teacher and historian was to understand the world into which he had been born. A life-long pacifist, he was active in the peace movement with special concern for the arms race and US-Soviet relations. He was an active member of the Worcester Pleasant Street Friends Meeting. |
Figure, the science professor was a communist supporter, and the history professor was a pacifist but was no communist lover.