President of Brown Upholds Congressional Investigations

Congressional investigations have not threatened academic freedom, and professors who refuse to cooperate with the investigations should be suspended, Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, said last night at a Brown alumni dinner in Boston.

"For the professor who refuses to answer, the burden of proving his fitness ever to teach again rest squarely upon him," Wriston stated, and added:

"The words academic freedom are used quite freely by persons who don't know what they mean. Academic freedom does not control the professor's relations with the public, the law, or Congress. It protects him only from the board of regents and the president of a college."