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...week later, I received a call from the editor of The Tulsa Collegian, the student newspaper at the University of Tulsa. Apaprently, my cartoon had provoked a storm of controversy over its arbitrary comparison of Black men and rats. A sit-in at The Collegian's offices was threatened; copies of the paper had been burned and race relations on campus had been set back considerably by my white supremacist views...
What was most disturbing about the ejections was that they were carried out selectively. Only press photographers--the photographers with the intent of disseminating information about the sit-in to the public--were thrown out. A law student and police officers were allowed to photograph the protest and those without cameras were not even told to leave the building...
...course, there are limits to fair punishment for relatively mild violations of University rules. The students should not be expelled for a sit-in. But lesser penalties including probation and suspension may be justified. In the end, we suspect that such penalties and the press coverage that would follow can only advance the worthy cause of diversity at the Law School...
More than 40 Law School students rallied for faculty diversity outside of Griswold Hall yesterday, decrying Dean Robert C. Clark's response to an April 10 sit-in outside the building...
Clark had sent letters to student participants who were identified in official photographs taken at the sit-in. The letters had threatened disciplinary action for any similar "disruptions" in the future...