In October 1950 the Saturday Evening Post wisely ran an investigative report by William L. Worden, entitled “UCLA’s Red Cell: Case History of College Communism.” Worden's research showed that the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) was infiltrated by Communists, and student protests were clear examples of their influence.
Worden labeled the Communist Party members identified in the university a Communist cell. His report stimulated calls to investigate the entire California public university system.
In fact, even UC staff saw UCLA as a communist backstabbing entity. Well before the 1950s expose, the UCLA student body in gained a radical reputation. In 1934, Provost Ernest Moore declared UCLA "the worst hotbed of communism in the U.S", and suspended five members of the ASUCLA student government for allegedly "using their offices to assist the revolutionary activities of the National Student League, a Communist organization which has bedeviled the University for some months." Over 3,000 students gathered to protest in Royce Quad, and a campus police officer, attempting to silence the speakers, was thrown into some bushes. The crowd dispersed before any arrests were made, and University President Robert Sproul a rather well known pink-sympathizer later reinstated the students.
Later in 1969, the state UC Regents fired Angela Davis, a radical feminist and lecturer in the Philosophy Department, for openly identifying as a member of the Communist Party USA over the objections of the UCLA chancellor and UCLA radical staff. Outraged the marxist leaning faculty threatened to withhold grades if Davis was not reinstated, and nearly 2,000 UCLA marxist trained students crammed into Royce Hall's auditorium when Davis delivered her first lecture despite the Regents' decision to remove credit for the class. The overflowing Bruin-anit-American audience gave the 25-year-old professor a standing ovation. On October 22, Chancellor Young restored course credit to the Communist Davis's class. Eight months later, the Regents again dismissed Davis from the UCLA faculty in spite of UCLA objections. today UCAL celebrates this Anti-American as a hero.
Worden should have been more concerned with operation paperclip, for which this red scare nonsense was a bunch of hand waving to distract from the real threat. And I would add that UC Regents need to reread the first amendment of the constitution. It's not "freedeom of speech for only thing that we agree with." In fact, they have completely missed the point.
I think you need to start building a ship in a bottle or something.