Aid Freedom Projects

BOTH President Dickey and President Emeritus Hopkins last month became associated with projects to promote freedom. President Dickey accepted membership on an advisory committee for the study of American academic freedom, sponsored by Columbia University and to be completed in time for the university's bicentennial in 1954. President Emeritus Hopkins accepted the New England regional chairmanship for the 1951 Crusade for Freedom, which during its September drive will endeavor to raise funds for erecting two powerful new freedom stations similar to the Munich transmitter of Radio Free Europe, which was built with funds contributed in last fall's campaign.

The American Academic Freedom Project, financed by a $60,000 grant from the Rabinowitz Foundation, will involve a written history of academic freedom in this country and also an institutional and theoretical analysis of the subject. A general conference on academic freedom will be held as part of the Columbia bicentennial in 1954- Also named to the advisory com- mittee was Edward C. Kirkland '16, Professor of History at Bowdoin College.

The 1951 Crusade for Freedom will seek to enroll 25,000,000 Americans and to raise $3,500,000 for the two new radio stations designed to intensify the cold war against the Kremlin. The New England campaign, under Mr. Hopkins' general direction, will seek 1,970,000 contributors.