Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months as a history professor at Mississippi's 86-year-old Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clennon King, 36, was a constant irritant to the state-run Negro campus. A Tuskegee graduate with an M.A. from Western Reserve, he was often rude to his students. He also aroused the wrath of President J. R. Otis for his habit of writing letters to the press on issues of the day. Last week the Jackson State Times began publishing a series of articles by Professor King that threatened to blow little (561 students) Alcorn right out of existence...
...council also pointed out that since May, 1950, it had refused the use of campuses to persons under indictment for any reason or awaiting appeal, and that "we are now of one mind in refusing to extend campus courtesies to persons convicted under the Smith...
...expression more than at a private institution. Legislative control of funds and tax exemptions exert considerable silent pressure on the complete exercise of academic freedom. At Brooklyn College, a New York City-supported school, this issue has blown up into a public controversy over alleged censorship of the campus literary magazine, Landscapes...
...approval. Coulton, speaking as an individual, not a Dean, told Landscapes' staff that he found the tone of the magazine one of preoccupation with "sex, disease, and abnormality." He suggested that the material go to the Faculty-Student Committee on Publications, which exerts final control over all campus publications...
Those at the meeting felt that the administration might consider a boycott an "unauthorized demonstration" and so decided, at least for the present, to let the various campus organs of student government discuss the problems with the administration...