Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ashby later said, "I knew this action would take place before I accepted my appointment...
...days after the newsletter had gone out, Ashby called in three members of the newly-formed Student Action Committee and rebuked them for not sending the newsletter through the proper "channels," as requested. He told the students they had no right to discuss such "affairs of the administration...
Ashby said he would call in an investigating board if faculty petitions were withdrawn and if the Action Committee members were placed on probation. But the Action Committee felt that Ashby's investigating board wouldn't really be an investigating board, and so the demonstrations went...
Referring to the Student Action Committee pickets, Ashby remarked, "Ninety percent of the student picket line were of a certain race and from a certain section of the country." Six days later Ashby told a student protest meeting that he had not meant to deprecate any one race, and that he still believed in Olivet's traditional non-discriminatory policy. But when asked what race he had in mind in his statement, Ashby replied, "Draw your own conclusion...
Other considerations may have entered into the Board's action, however. Smith had been the Socialist candidate for vice-president and was head of the Teachers' Union. Fahy, Mabee, and Smith had condemned Akeley's ousting in the first student newsletter. And all five discharged teachers were connected with the union...