Thrusday, Jan. 22: Robert M. O'Neil, founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Speech and former president of the Universities of and , spoke on the state of academic freedom in a lecture sponsored by the . Here is an published in the Daily
Friday, Jan. 23: A panel on academic freedom and tenure
was held in Kane Hall.
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published in the Daily.
* Historian Richard Fried of the spokeon
"The Context of the Second Red Scare" at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of Allen
Library. Fried is the author of Nightmare in Red and Men Against
McCarthy.
Saturday, Jan. 24: The and the
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest offered a series of
events.
* Ellen Schrecker, , spoke on "McCarthyism Goes to College: Anti-Communism and
American Higher Education" at 9 a.m. in 301 Gowen. Schrecker is the author of
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities.
* "Anti-Communism
and the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ, 1948-1960: Recollections from Those Who Were
There," was a panel discussion held at 10:30 a.m. in 301 Gowen. The moderator was
Jane Sanders, author of Cold War on the Campus. Participants included
Edwin Guthman, former Seattle Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize
for his reporting on the Melvin Rader case; Ernest Henley, retired physics
professor and former dean of arts and sciences; Barbara Krohn, a UW student at
the time of the hearings and former UW Daily adviser; Howard Nostrand,
retired professor and chair of Romance languages and literature; and two
members of a 1948 anti-Canwell group, the Committee for Academic Freedom, local
businessman Stimson Bullitt and civil rights attorney Kenneth MacDonald.
*
"Anti-Communism in the Pacific Northwest: Two Perspectives" was presented
at 1:45 p.m. in 301 Gowen. Lorraine McConaghy, Museum of History and Industry,
spoke on "Anti-Communism in Washington State, 1947-1965: Albert Canwell to
P.C. Beezley." Floyd McKay, , spoke "The Failure of News Objectivity in the McCarthy
Era: The Press in Oregon, Washington, and California."
Feb. 4-15: All Powers Necessary and Convenient., an original play by Drama School Senior Lecturer Mark Jenkins, will recreate the hearings in the Playhouse Theatre. For , call (206) 543-4880.
Ongoing: An exhibit of materials related to the Canwell hearings will be
on display in the Allen Library balcony throughout Winter Quarter. A web site
for the has many relevant links to McCarthy era sites.
* In January, the reissued Melvin
Rader's book False Witness, a memoir of his efforts to clear his name
after being falsely accused in the Canwell hearings. The book has a new
afterword by Seattle attorney and activist Leonard Schroeter.
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