Word: baton
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Trouble had been building on the Baton Rouge campus for weeks. One of the largest black universities in the country (11,000 enrollment, including the New Orleans campus), Southern has been the scene of a widespread student boycott for the past three weeks. The student demands included better living conditions, a greater voice in university affairs and the ouster of President Leon Netterville, whom many consider an aging Uncle Tom. Last week, in simultaneous predawn raids, police arrested four student leaders-three men and a woman-on charges of criminal mischief for breaking into the school gymnasium and holding...
Harvard-Raselitte Afro and other activist groups announced yesterday that they would observe a nation wide boycott of classes next Monday in solidarity with striking students at Southern University Baton (SUBR...
...Organizacton an organization of Puerto Rican students at Harvard issued a statement last night "uniting ourselves with our Black brothers in condemning the killing of two students at Southern University Baton Rouge...
...SHOTGUN KILLINGS of Denver A. Smith and Leonard Douglas Brown--two 20 year-old black students at Southern University's Baton Rouge campus--have once again shown the dark and violent underside of American race relations. From this distance the cloud of tear-gas that covered the incident has not lifted and it is no more clear why the shot-gun shells were fired than who ordered not equipped police on the campus...
...students responded yesterday to Afro's call for a one-day boycott of classes protecting the deaths of two students at Southern University. Baton Rouge (SUBR) last Thursday...