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116 Notes to Pages 64–69 24. Shannon to Brode, letter, March 25, 1954; Brode to Shannon, letter, March 29, 1953; Chester F. Cole to Himstead, letter, May 31, 1953, all in ibid. 25. Himstead to Stout, telegram, March 26, 1954; Shannon to Himstead, memo, March 29, 1954, both in ibid. 26. Schrecker, No Ivory Tower, 314–37; Chicago Tribune, April 27, 1954; Reno Evening Gazette, May 5, 1954; Schrecker, No Ivory Tower, 319–20. See also Collier’s 156 Year Book, s.v. ‘‘academic freedom,’’ for a discussion of the aaup’s reluctance to censure administrations because of private arrangements between institutions and complaining scholars. This was not the case at un in the 1950s, though it is one more explanation of the reluctance of the aaup to use its censure power in the cause of academic freedom. 27. Schrecker, No Ivory Tower, 322–33; Walter Metzger, ‘‘Ralph F. Fuchs and Ralph E. Himstead: A Note on the aaup in the McCarthy Period,’’ courtesy of Jordan E. Kurland, associate general secretary of the aaup. 28. Charles G. Howard and Glenn A. Bakkum to Ralph F. Fuchs, letter, June 25, 1956, in American Association of University Professors, ‘‘University of Nevada’’ file; Nevada State Journal, June 3, 1955; New York Times, June 5, 1955; Gorrell, ‘‘University Growing Up,’’ 77; Nevada State Journal, June 1, 3, 1955. 29. Stout, interview by Hulse, University of Nevada Archives, ac 62, tape 1; Nevada State Journal, October 20, 1955. 30. Bakkum to Warren C. Middleton, letter, May 12, 1956; Bakkum to Fuchs, letter , June 26, 1956; Howard to Middleton, letter, May 12, 1956; Howard to Middleton, note, July 5, 1956, all in American Association of University Professors, ‘‘University of Nevada’’ file. 31. Stout, interview by Hulse, University of Nevada Archives, ac 62, tape 1. 32. Kirk, Academic Freedom, 100; William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ‘‘Academic Freedom,’’ xi. 33. Stout, interview by Hulse, University of Nevada Archives, ac 62, tape 2. All of the information in this paragraph was taken from tape 2 of this three-tape series.That Stout received and wrote a response to the aaup report and that it contained many errors are supported by two articles in the U of N Sagebrush, February 10, October 12, 1956. 34. Robert A. Hume to Middleton, letter, July 8, 1956, in American Association of University Professors, ‘‘University of Nevada’’ file; Denver Dickerson, ‘‘Salmagundi,’’ Nevada State News, April 26, 1956. 35. Dickerson, ‘‘Salmagundi,’’ Nevada State News, April 26, 1956. 36. G. C.Wheeler to Middleton, note, July 9, 1956; Helen C.White to Middleton, note, July 25, 1956; George R. Stewart to Middleton, note, July 23, 1956; Charlton G. Laird to Middleton, letter, July 7, 1956; Frank Richardson to Middleton, letter, July 22, 1956; Hume to Middleton, letter, July 8, 1956; Robert M. Gorrell to Middleton, letter, July 11, 1956; Thomas M. Little to Middleton, letter, July 9, 1956; Harold N. Brown to Middleton, letter, July 9, 1956, all in American Association of University Professors, ‘‘University of Nevada’’ file. Notes to Pages 69–75 117 37. Stout to Fuchs, letter, August 20, 1956; George Stewart to Fuchs, letter, August 21, 1956, both in ibid. 38. Gorrell, ‘‘University Growing Up,’’ 78, 81; Stout, interview by Hulse, University of Nevada Archives, ac 62, tape 3; U of N Sagebrush, May 17, 1957. 39. Board of Regents Meeting Minutes, June 5–6, 1945, 1; Harris, ‘‘My Years in Nevada,’’ 69–70; U of N Sagebrush, September 23, 1955. During the time that the existing rules were suspended, the procedure forobtaining tenurewas ‘‘evaluation and recommendation by the Departmental Head to the Dean of the College, who will make recommendation to the President for submission to the Administrative Council , and then to the Board of Regents.’’ See also Reno Evening Gazette, June 5, 1954; and Nevada State Journal, June 6, 1954. Both newspapers also list the requirement that the applicant must be approved by his fellow faculty before any of the other steps can be taken. 40. Nevada State Journal, June 3, 1955; Reno Evening Gazette, June 7, 1954. 41. A.Taxpayer, ‘‘For the Next meeting of the Board of Regents,’’ Russell Papers, gov 0295, ‘‘University of Nevada Correspondence, 1955.’’ 42. Reno Evening Gazette, June 11, 1955; Nevada State Journal, June 12, 1955. 43. Stout, interview by Hulse, University of Nevada Archives, ac 62, tape 1; Nevada State Journal, June 7, 1955. 44. Stout, interview by Hulse, University of Nevada Archives, ac 62...

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