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Hans Freistadt, a student and part-time teacher at the University of North Carolina, admitted to a Congressional committee in May, 1949, that he was a member of the Communist Party.
On May 24 he was removed from his teaching job, and on the same day the university's Committee of Chancellors told the Board of Trustees that it would continue to exclude Communists. To implement this policy the Chancellors immediately ruled that all applicants for teaching jobs would have to answer the following question inserted in the personnel sheet:
"Are you now, or have you been at any time in the past, a member of or in anywise affiliated either with the Communist Party or with any organization or association controlled to your knowledge by Communists? If so, please explain fully?"
Both faculty members and the Greater University Student Council have asked that this question be removed, but the administration insists that it remain "both for our protection and for the protection of the prospective teacher."
An oath of allegiance has also been required of all university employees since 1941.
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