Journalist Jelani Cobb recommended looking at how universities
responded to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s attacks on professors to better understand
current strategies. The University of Michigan’s caving to political
intimidation isn’t new. In the 1950s, then President Harlan Hatcher
fired two faculty members and suspended one who refused to cooperate
with Senator McCarthy’s red-baiting Committee on “Un-American
Activities.”
As another federal government takes aim at universities, join us for a screening of Keeping in Mind: The McCarthy Era at the University of Michigan,
a 1989 documentary featuring interviews with Hatcher and the three men
he sacrificed to political expediency: Chandler Davis, Clement Markert,
and Mark Nickerson. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion
that includes the filmmaker, Adam Kulakow, who was a UM student in the
1980s.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 9, 5-7:30pm (Pizza available starting at 4:30p. Come early!)
WHERE: Maize and Blue Auditorium, Student Activities Building, 515 E. Jefferson Street
WHO: All students, faculty, staff, and community members
