re: #277 Charles

One of my friends and heroes is Charles Muscatine, a UC Berkeley professor who refused to sign the loyalty oath.

He’s a strong man, so it didn’t ruin his life, but it deprived generations of Berkeley students of a great, great man’s wisdom. He had to teach at much lower-ranked schools for a long, long time.

He joined other professors in a lawsuit against Berkeley, long after the fact, and won. With his portion of the winnings, he bought a cherry red sportscar and parked it daily (after reinstatement at Berkeley as well) underneath the window of the administrator he felt was the most zestful about prosecuting that loyalty oath.