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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956
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33° BOARD OF TRUSTEES Department Pharmacology, Chicago Professional Colleges Physical Plant, Chicago Professional Colleges College of Law University Press Vendor Sanborn Company, Chicago [April 27 Cost * 4 310 00 Item One Sanborn polygraph with three preamplifiers for use with a Sanborn multichannel poly viso electrocardiograph recorder in the Department of Pharmacology Library bookstacks for Professional Colleges Library Wood book shelving for Law Library 40,000 copies 1955-56 Undergraduate Study catalog Roller towel rental service (dispensing cabinets included) for the period July 1, 1955, through June 30, 1957 (approximately 40,000 fifty-yard 12" rolls) Interior Steel Products Company, Chicago Robert Brand & Sons Co., Oshkosh, Wis. Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Company. Bloomington Champaign Clean Towel Service, Champaign f.o.b. Cambridge, Mass. and 8 176 00 delivered installed 10 986 14 19 310 00 f.o.b. Bloomington (estimate) Physical Plant 22 000 00 On motion of Mr. Johnston, these purchases were authorized. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR DEALING W I T H CASES OF STAFF MEMBERS CLAIMING CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVILEGES IN DECLINING TO TESTIFY BEFORE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES (18) Your University administration has been concerned over the happenings in other institutions where staff members have claimed exemption under the First or Fifth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States from answering questions when called before legislative investigational bodies. Difficulties have seemed to result from the lack of a policy and program of the institution for dealing with such matters and the necessity of handling them on an emergency or ad hoc basis rather than through established channels and procedures. The University of Illinois has been free of any situation of this kind, and we hope it may remain so. However, we should be prepared to meet such a situation if it arises and both the staff and the administration should understand how the University intends to proceed if faced with this problem. T h e administration has at heart the interests and protection of both the individual staff member and the University itself. It wants to see the interests of both fairly and adequately safeguarded. With these considerations and objectives in mind, I have consulted with the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and with the Executive Committee of the University Council, and a procedure was drawn to be followed in such cases. This procedure was presented to and adopted by the University Senate on April 4, 1955. T h e Senate also authorized its Committee on Academic Freedom to function as the hearing agency provided in the statement and the procedure was placed in effect at that time. The statement is being submitted to the Board for its information and record. Procedure to be Followed in the Case of Staff Members Claiming Constitutional Privileges in Declining to Testify Before Legislative Committees Concerning Alleged Communist Affiliation or Activity I. General Principles A. Refusal to testify before a commission or legislative committee, duly constituted to investigate Communist activity, on grounds of (1) rights under the First or Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States or (2) under the Bill of Rights of the Illinois Constitution, does not, in and of itself, prove that the individual is a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. However, B. The University has a continuing obligation to assure itself that no member of its staff is a member of the Communist Party, is engaged in subversive activities, or is misusing the privileges of his position for Communist proselyting. Therefore,
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