Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...
...continuing its support of the strikers or in its other off campus activities we suggest that the league do so not as an organization from the University, but as interested or sympathetic individuals...
Comprising a cloistered collection of crotchety individualists who mortally dread insecurity, the normal U. S. campus resembles an inactive volcano. Beneath its outward calm there rumble, seethe and surge perpetual gratings of opinion, ripples of backbiting and intrigue, tides of hate and fear. With fortunate exceptions the instructor fears and resents the department head, who fears and resents the dean, who fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance...
...Louisiana State University, but held its fire because no facultyman had yet dared raise his voice in protest. When a complaint seems worthy of action, Committee A asks A. A. U. P. chapters in neighboring universities to nominate an investigating committee. The committee visits the complainant's campus, hears both sides firsthand. Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts. Sometimes it is able to "work a reconciliation. Only in flagrant cases of injustice does it consign the offending university to public infamy in a stinging report...
...life imprisonment of Richard Gray Gallogly, whose mother Frances is a sister of the Brothers Inman and James Richard Jr.† In 1928, while a student at Oglethorpe, drunken Richard Gray Gallogly held up an Atlanta drugstore, killed the cashier, shot out the face of an Oglethorpe campus clock. The Grays never refer to their black sheep but no wise Atlantan thought for a minute last week that they would ever trade political peace for family whitewash...