Loyalty Oaths: To Sign or Not To Sign

by
Lynn Sharon Schwartz and David Romtvedt
From the September/October 1991 issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
11.30.07

"Bureaucratic garbage" and "dismissable formality" or a real affront to personal and professional integrity? Confronted with signing for university teaching positions, two writers reflect on their different choices and prove there are no empty words.