David A. Caputo
\nPresident
\nPace University
\nNew York City, NY
\npresident@pace.edu<\/p>\n
Dear President Caputo<\/p>\n
Just received an email re the problems of your students<\/p>\n
Brian Kelly and Lauren Giaccone<\/p>\n
If I understand correctly, they are due to the university policy against
\n\u201cunrecognized student organizations”<\/p>\n
A question: Had these students successfully registered the SDS
\n(THAT TAKES US BACK A WHILE !)
\nwould their actions (calling Clinton a War Criminal) still have been punishable ?<\/p>\n
A memory: In 1945 we – students at NYU – uptown campus – formed Club TYF –
\n – Teheran – Yalta – Frisco – celebrating Big Three anti-fascist meetings, and the UN foundation… Affiliated to the (left) American Youth for Democracy, AYD.<\/p>\n
We needed a faculty advisor. Prof Don M. Wolfe, English Dept., accepted.<\/p>\n
Thirty years later (in 1979) I found and visited Don Wolfe’s widow in New Jersey.
\nShe told us that soon after I had left NYU – in the later nineteen forties – Prof Wolfe lost his position – at the University – and – despite being one of the foremost “Milton” scholars (his book on Milton and the Puritan Revoltion are still today required reading here at Sydney University for these subjects) was unable to find academic employment elsewhere.<\/p>\n
He survived as a taxi driver.<\/p>\n
Apparently one of the reasons for his unemployability was his sponsorship (faculty advisor-ship ?) of a “red” AYD club.<\/p>\n
Are we going down this road once again ?<\/p>\n
Max Watts
\nAustralia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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