Kennedy's litmus test for TAs an affront to freedom
To the Editor:
Imagine a professor sends an e-mail to his graduate students explaining he will not teach his class unless potential TAs sign a statement saying they are not now nor have ever been members of the Communist Party or that another professor threatens to cancel his class unless TAs who happen to be Jewish promise to teach on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.
The professor may have a right to hold opinions on the pernicious influence of Communists or the inconvenient calendar of Jews, and this professor may even publish such opinions in professional journals or...
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