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 Wisconsin and Virginia, spoke on the state of academic freedom in a lecture sponsored by the law school. Here is an account of O'Neil's address published in the Daily
Friday, Jan. 23: A panel on academic freedom and tenure
was held in Kane Hall.
Here is an account of the panel
published in the Daily.
* Historian Richard Fried of the University of Illinois at Chicago 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 Department of History and the
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest offered a series of
events.
* Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva
University, 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 University of Washington, 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, Western Washington
University, 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 tickets, 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 All Powers Project
has many relevant links to McCarthy era sites.
* In January, the UW Press 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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