Resolution Starts Loyalty Fight at N.Y. City College

Controversy about loyalty investigations for students and faculty stirred City College of New York for the past week.

The controversy was started by a resolution passed by the Student Council of CCNY, requesting that the State Education Department and the New York City Board of Examiners "omit the question of loyalty as a prerequisite for teaching.

"All investigations into student loyalty" were also condemned by the resolution. Opposition to the resolution was made in a big student meeting soon after the resolution was adopted, by students who felt that the action had been taken too hastily.

Investigations into the loyalty of students "leads to serious curtailment of academic freedom on the campus," the resolution continued. It further added that loyalty investigations in the School of Education would give the Dean "arbitrary undemocratic power," set up instructors as "informers," and blacklist students without their knowledge.