[DPB101]

From the California Legislature: Eleventh Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities (1061)

In our 1959 report we quoted from Communist sources as far back as 1952 to the effect that the Party intended to bring about a change in the judicial precedents that had been established by decisions of the United States Supreme Court and which had resulted in enormous hardship to the Party and its leaders. We pointed out how judicial precedent was indeed changed, and how the Party took credit for bringing about that result . . .we predict that the campuses of every major university in the State will be plagued with a revival of Communist activities, both overt and covert, in the immediate future. Already new Marxist youth organizations have been planted at U. C. L. A., and there are plans to duplicate them at Stanford, San Jose State, San Francisco State, Chico State College and the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. . .

They saw them coming, too bad they couldn't stop them.

[liberalnot]

they were the reason that tenure was developed after ww2. their argument was that faculty deserved to be immune from political pressures, so that they could do research.

this didn't make much sense. why would an english professor or engineering professor need protection? by definition, most university fields with the exception of political science are not political.

clearly, their intent was to take over our universities and hire like-minded people.

why should faculty members be immune to the job market? afterall, the people who pay taxes to support them often lose their jobs.

i say, do away with tenure.