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Cigar-puffing President Aubrey L. Ashby of tiny Olivet College, Mich., likes to call his administration "a period of sanitation." Called in two years ago to put Olivet back on its financial feet, he determined to rid the campus of its reputation for leftist-pacifist leanings (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). In doing so, he raised a bigger academic rumpus than most presidents could raise in a lifetime...
...National Broadcasting Co. vice president, started in by firing four teachers. In the next few hectic months twelve others (including Economist Tucker Smith, 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President of the U.S.) quit in protest, and 110 out of 297 students left the campus. But after the first flurry, Olivet began to settle back to normalcy...
...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...