Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight days later, the administration was berated by a field investigating team of the American Civil Liberties Union. "By his autocratic attitude and by his and the Board's apparent lack of understanding of the traditional American guarantees of academic freedom and tenure, Dr. Ashby has placed Olivet College in grave danger economically and as an educational institution." the A. C. L. U. stated...
...Committee pickets, Ashby remarked, "Ninety percent of the student picket line were of a certain race and from a certain section of the country." Six days later Ashby told a student protest meeting that he had not meant to deprecate any one race, and that he still believed in Olivet's traditional non-discriminatory policy. But when asked what race he had in mind in his statement, Ashby replied, "Draw your own conclusion...
...Olivet had only lost two of its teachers. On December 8, two faculty members resigned in protest, and on December 17, four were fired and another was given a one year terminal notice...
...group expressed regret at leaving Olivet, but in letters of resignation the instructors attacked Ashby for his alleged anti-Semitic speech and charged the administration with "during key personnel, absence of an adequate tenure system, attacks on faculty members, abandoning democratic procedures, and failure to accept arbitration...
...Back of Olivet this week, the college was nearing the end of a bloody year. Eighteen out of 35 teachers were gone. Olivet faced blacklisting by the American Association of University Professor: a majority of the present students were planning not to return: and educational and administrative policy had changed drastically--all since summer...