Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice-presidential candidate of the Socialist party addressed students of UCLA off campus last October after university authorities had barred him from participating in a political debate...
Samuel Friedman, the candidate, was banned with the statement "it is not deemed advisable to invite Mr. Friedman to speak on campus at this time." Although supposed to debate representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties, Friedman, according to the statement, was "not considered of equal stature" to them. UCLA authorities assumed they could have a well-rounded debate without Friedman's presence...
...University of Michigan's speaker-banning machinery, which had barred four men from speaking at the University last year died hard in early December when the Student Legislature plan to liberalize the Lecture Committee was rejected. The Legislature blamed its failure, in part, on the interference of the campus Young Progressives "who threw a monkey wrench in the negotiations," by raising the speaker issue at a critical time...
...December some sixty students, after being checked off against a guest list at the door, heard Howard Fast speak in the off-campus Unitarian church. The meeting was again sponsored by the Young Progressives. The YP's discarded their original plan to hold the meeting on campus when the Lecture Committee did not receive the Progressive's petition in time...
...Kansan received threatening letters and phone calls, and the Dean of Journalism was urged through similar calls to take some action. The Student Council publically criticized the Kansan for violating its charter agreement to "maintain a semi-conservative policy and remain neutral in politics on and off the Campus...