The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 17, 1989 -Page 5 1 i 1 'Keeping in Mind' recalls McCarthyism at the 'U' BY DONNA IADIPAOLO and concrete documentary on Mc- Nickerson, professor emeritus of In the May of 1954, three Uni- Carthyism at the University, the fear pharmacology at McGill University; versity faculty members refused to ended with the destruction of lives: and Clement Markert, research pro- testify at a hearing before the Clary "Keeping in mind that if we lose fessor of animal science and genetics Subcommitteo of the House Un- Indo-China, Mr. Jenkins," threatens at North Carolina State University. American Activites Committee McCarthy, "we will lose the Pacific "Keeping In Mind" reveals the (HUAC) in Lansing. They all were and we will be an island in a com political tensions between faculty suspended from the University; two munist sea." The video, whose title and departments during the era, the of the three were dismissed and the comes from McCarthy's famous frightening climate which developed k quote, was directed and written by in our country, and how bureaucracy PREV IEW : Keeping LSA senior Adam Kulakow for his became a guise for inquisition. At InMind'English honors thesis. one point in the video, Prof. third eventually left. By 1952, HUAC targeted Ameri- Nickerson, appearing as a clear-eyed But what occurred at the Univer- can higher education, including the grandfather figure, recalls how re- sity during this time was only an University of Michigan. There is ceiving a HUAC subpoena affected extension of the "Red Scare." In the also no doubt that former University his family life. fall of 1949, the Soviet Union ex- president Harlan Hatcher and the "I think particularly my son, who ploded the atomic bomb and a few Board of Regents ostracized the fac- was seven, was affected by it," said months later Mao Zedong won the ulty members in 1954. But, Ku- Nickerson, telling how garbage was Chinese revolution. Because these lakow's video also implicates those dumped around his home and how two events appeared linked, many who passively accepted McCarthy- his son was ridiculed by his school- believed communists were conspir- ism at the University. mates. ing to subvert the world. Harry S. "Keeping In Mind" will be shown The video's makers also interview Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph at the Modern Languages Building Davis and Markert about how this McCarthy, and eventually the Clary on Wednesday at 7 p.m., introducing period affected their personal and Subcommittee, which targeted the a program titled "The McCarthy Era professional lives. University, began their witch-hunts at The University of Michigan." The "It was near the end of the term. to track down the "communist sub- three former University faculty I was suspended with pay, to the versives." members who refused to testify be- credit of the University," said Mark- There's no doubt about the pre- fore the HUAC will also speak ert, who taught in the pharmacology vailing climate of fear. As a clip of a Wednesday: H. Chandler Davis, department at the time. "But I McCarthy hearing demonstrates in presently the chair of mathematics at couldn't desert my students so "Keeping In Mind," a new strong the University of Toronto; Mark abruptly... I continued, essentially, A McCarthy era copy of the Michigan Daily shows a Michigan subcommittee hearing of three faculty members who refused to testify. The three faculty will join again Wednesday for the first time since then. to teach the course until the end of the semester and hand in the grades, as I felt I morally had to do." Also interviewed for the video was Ellen Schrecker, author of No Ivory Tower, McCarthyism and the Universities. She relates how Hatcher handled the pressure put upon the University's administration by the government. Hatcher is also interviewed. One clip even shows former president Ronald Reagan consumed in the hysteria of the 50's. "The communist conspiracy is a deliberate and predictable plan of action to subvert the world," says Reagan. In the video, Kulakow appears to link how this portion of history is pertinent to today's political dilem- mas. "I think we bear a responsibil- ity to offer a single presentation of the McCarthy era as it affected ,the University of Michigan and leave ie many connections open for the audi- ence to draw." Kulakow's video was funded -ly grants from LSA. The program dn Wednesday is sponsored by the Uni- versity chapter of the American A- sociation of University Professers and the English department. _, POLICE NOTES 1 CHAMPIONS OF THE WEST... It's Time to SELL BACK YOUR BOOKS! f J Youth pleads guilty to October stabbings A 16-year-old Ann Arbor youth faces up to 10 years in prison for the stabbing of two male University students last October. Tashikko McKaye pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of intent to commit great bodily harm Friday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court for the stabbing of one student. Continued from Page 1 her hope was that more publicity will be available in the future. 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Cooper said the original charges of attempted murder will be dropped in return for McKaye's pleas to the lesser offense of assault with intent to commit great bodily harm. His no-contest plea will be treated as a plea of guilty when he is sentenced May 5 by Judge William Ager Jr. Attorney Thomas Moors, counsel for McKaye, was unavailable for comment. By Monica Smith r< Get BIG BUCKS for your BOOKS at D The program is supported by several University professors, soci- ologist Walter Allen and art and Afro-American professor John Lockard, who provide resources and credit from the Center for African American Studies to volunteers in- terested in making a year long com- mitment to a youth. In 1985, when the Leaning Post first extended its services to students willing to travel to underdeveloped Ann Arbor homes, an "intensive and careful" screening process was undertaken, according to Porter. 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