ML20248L766
| ML20248L766 | |
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| Site: | 07200022 |
| Issue date: | 03/18/1998 |
| From: | UTAH, STATE OF |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| ISFSI, NUDOCS 9803240174 | |
| Download: ML20248L766 (1) | |
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1997, by Robert Hoffman - one of SSWS's own members, and a public officer of the State. See Exh. I to State's Opposition to Amended Petition. It is disingenuous of SSWS to now trumpet its " gag order" argument given the level of knowledge and public statements of support for PFS by one of SSWS's own members.
It is also patently ridiculous to suggest that university faculty will suffer reprisals through budget cuts if they do speak out in favor of the PFS proposal.
Supplemental Petition at 2. The University of Utah has explicit written policies and procedures protecting the academic freedom ofits faculty members. The University has adopted and endorsed the American Association of University Professors' "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure"; the "1970 Interpretive Comments" thereon; the "1970 Statement of Professors and Political Activity"; and the "1970 Statement of the Association's Council: Freedom and Responsibility." See University Regulations, Chapter IX, University Speech Policies, No. 8-9, Title II, _
Section 2 (Academic Freedom), attached hereto as Exhibit 1. Furthermore, every I
faculty member has the right to communicate ideas "even should such activities generate hostility or pressures against the faculty member or the university." Id.,
Section 7, Academic Rights of Faculty Members. SSWS provides no factual information to show that these policies have been abrogated.
Accordingly, SSWS's unsupported attack on the integrity of the State is facially inadequate to show good cause for its late filing.
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