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2/16/1949 - Letter to the Editor - What's Up Doc?

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1. 2/16/1949 - Pallbearers Wanted WRITTEN BY: R.G. Dedlow | PUBLISHED BY: OSC Daily Barometer | DATE: Feb. 16, 1949 | TYPE OF ARTICLE: Letter to the Editor | CONTENTS: “I would like to ask the Barometer to declare a holiday in order that the students may attend a funeral. On February 15, 1949, freedom to express our views, freedom to follow our particular political beliefs, freedom of thought, and saddest of all, freedom to choose our own professions were ground under heel and sadistically murdered en masse at O.S.C. shed a tear, everyone, and sigh, ‘Oh well, we loved them while they were alive!’ Could the president of a college we hold dear be one of the pallbearers?”
2. 2/16/1949 - Letter to the Editor - What's Up Doc?
3. 2/16/1949 - Freedom Doesn't Exist
4. 2/16/1949 - Future at Stake WRITTEN BY: Maxine Yoder | PUBLISHED BY: OSC Daily Barometer | DATE: Feb. 16, 1949 | TYPE OF ARTICLE: Letter to the Editor | CONTENTS: “It is extremely important that the students of Oregon State college should be aware of the significance to them of the action taken by the administration in refusing to renew the contracts of two of our faculty members and refusing to give reasons for doing so. The administration will agree that in neither case is incompetency involved. Since both men have been very active in the Progressive Party, we may assume that their political activity is the sole cause.”
5. 2/22/1949 - Editor's Note
6. 2/22/1949 - Ours to Reason Why
7. 2/23/1949 - A Strong Concern WRITTEN BY: James C. Wilson, John H. McLean, Mary Lou Belton, Thomas H. McAllester Jr., Donald H. DeLay, Robert C. Sommer, Glen A. Larson, Ruth Spears, Marion Sammis, Robert Gaittens | PUBLISHED BY: OSC Daily Barometer | DATE: Feb. 23, 1949 | TYPE OF ARTICLE: Letter to the Editor | CONTENTS: A group of students wish to notify the student body that they are circulating a petition: “We, the undersigned, respectfully request that President A.L. Strand state definite reasons for the refusal to reappoint Professors L.R. LaVallee and Ralph Spitzer.”
8. 2/23/1949 - Knotheads WRITTEN BY: R. Juhnke | PUBLISHED BY: OSC Daily Barometer | DATE: Feb. 23, 1949 | TYPE OF ARTICLE: Letter to the Editor | CONTENTS: “I would like to congratulate those two professors on that masterpiece of evasion and double talk which was written in answer to the Barometer’s request for a clarification of their positions. Congratulations gentlemen, it was true to style. After all--what else could you say?”
9. 2/16/1949 - An Open Letter to Professor LaVallee and Doctor Spitzer
10. 2/23/1949 - Sticks Neck Out
11. 2/18/1949 - Don't Be Absurd A.R.
12. 2/24/1949 - 'Martyred Persecutees' Claim Academic Curb
13. 2/18/1949 - Questions Ranting
14. 2/18/1949 - Sheep-like
15. 2/16/1949 - Editor's Reply WRITTEN BY: The Editors of The Daily Barometer, most notably Allen Reed, as the note is signed “A.R.” | PUBLISHED BY: OSC Daily Barometer | DATE: Feb. 16, 1949 | TYPE OF ARTICLE: Editorial | CONTENTS: The editors of that Daily Barometer post their own reply to letters that were written in, and published in the same day’s issue. They note by name the letters from Mr. Summers (“Freedom Doesn’t Exist”) and Miss Yoder (“Future at Stake”). “When the interests of a small group conflicts with the will of the majority, wherever people gather together, it is customary that the few give way to the great majority, that is, unless they desire to impress their interests in the majority by force. . . it is only natural that an institution supported by the majority should follow the beliefs of that majority--which is tolerance within the bounds of American democracy.”