Word: sandspur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began when about two-thirds of Rollins' 630 students went out on strike, threatened to stay out until the trustees cleared up the whole controversy once & for all. Then the undergraduate weekly Sandspur put out a special anti-Wagner issue, accusing the president of distorting the facts about the college's financial crisis. Wagner denounced the issue as "filled with falsehoods ... a smear on my reputation." Unless the editors retracted, said he, he would suspend them...
...counterblast served only to heighten the tension. The Sandspur editors refused to retract, instead announced that they would put out another issue "in elaboration of the last one." Finally, two days ahead of their scheduled meeting, the majority of the trustees stepped in again...
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