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The University of California was beginning to feel some unpleasant effects of its year-long battle over the loyalty oath. Last week the American Psychological Association, meeting in convention at Pennsylvania State College, served notice that it was urging its 7,300 members not to take jobs at California.*The reason, said the association: by firing six/- professors for refusing to say whether they were Communists or not, the university had violated academic freedom.

The association admitted that it might not actually drop any members who decided to take jobs anyway. "But the rest of us," said an association spokesman, "will feel they are doing a dismal thing."

*For news of other action by the association, see MEDICINE.

/-Subsequently the number has grown. In their July meeting, the California regents voted to fire six non-signers and, by a narrow vote, retained 39 more (TIME, July 31). Reversing themselves three weeks ago, the regents voted to dismiss 31 of the 39. Of these, six gave in and signed, 20 others decided to fight it out in court.

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