Word: countercampaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Countercampaign. Normally, the matter would have ended right there, but the issue of the punishment was, by now, thoroughly entangled in the effort to defend tradition. Most of the suspended students came from distinguished families, and the families hired distinguished lawyers to carry on the fight. Meanwhile, a group of students led by newly elected Student Council President William L. Tazewell began a countercampaign to get Fletcher fired from his job of student director. At semester's end Tazewell reported to his council: "A majority of the student body have neither faith . . . nor trust in ... the administration...