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Michael Paull

1942– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineThe “To His Coy Mistress” affair, 19661966 · 6 events · In October 1966 Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson took graduate instructor Michael Paull out of his freshman English classroom after WRAL-TV reported that he had assigned a theme on seduction, in an assignment on Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress." Students and faculty protested, part-time English instructors threatened to stop teaching, and Sitterson turned the case over to the English Department. Its committee found that Paull had not assigned a theme on seduction, and in November the faculty and Sitterson returned him to his class.

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  1. Chancellor Sitterson removes instructor Michael Paull from his freshman English class A day after WRAL-TV reported that graduate instructor Michael Paull had assigned his freshman English class a theme on seduction, Sitterson reassigned him to other duties. His statement said the class had apparently misread an assignment on Andrew Marvell's poem 'To His Coy Mistress' and that no charges were being made, but that the normal teaching relationship had been seriously disturbed. People: Michael Paull, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 19, 1966, p. 1
  2. Chancellor Sitterson returns instructor Michael Paull to his English class After a five-member English Department committee under Prof. James Gaskin found that graduate instructor Michael Paull had not assigned a theme on seduction, the English faculty voted on November 9 to accept its report, and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson concurred the next day. Sitterson had taken Paull out of the classroom on October 18 after WRAL-TV commentator Jesse Helms attacked his assignment on Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress." People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Michael Paull Place: Department of English, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: James Gaskin, Jesse HelmsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1966, p. 1

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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 22, 1991: interview L-0064-5, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Fifth Pollitt interview, recorded February 22, 1991, by Ann McColl, about 57 minutes. Daniel H. Pollitt, long active in the AAUP, the national body of university professors, recounts academic freedom cases he handled through it, among them disputes over the dismissal of faculty and administrators at UNC-Chapel Hill. The people whose cases come up include Moye Freymann (1925-1996) and Michael Paull (born 1942). Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Paull, Michael, 1942-.

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The coy mistress caper.

1966 · Time Inc

A four page article clipped from Life, volume 61, number 20, dated November 11, 1966, on a dispute over academic freedom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The article concerns the instructor Michael Paull, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, Jesse Helms and Andrew Marvell's poem 'To His Coy Mistress'. Illustrated, with portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Paull, Michael, 1942-.

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