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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before 1948, the administration said that the "Liberal Club did not consistently follow the expected procedure. ... Notices of meetings (would appear) in the student newspaper before requests for their approval had been made...
Clarence A. Dykstra, provost of UCLA, apologized to Laski's sponsors, and termed the delay an "overnight." But students at the university circulated several petitions protesting this "overnight," and U.C.L.A.'s Student Executive Council began a move to obtain some voice in decisions regarding outside speakers...
...February, 1948, officials at the University of New Hampshire tightened up the procedure for approving meetings of the student Liberal Club. Since that time, three outside speakers have been prevented from addressing Club gatherings...
...Texas, the legislature became acquainted with a University of Texas student, Wendell Addington, who joined the Communist Party soon after his discharge from the Army in 1946. As youth director for the state of Texas, Addington frequently testified before state legislative committees in opposition to segregation practices and on behalf of antilynching bills...
...Michigan legislature's committee on un-American activities is headed by Matthew F. Callahan. When James Zarichny, a student at Michigan State University, refused to tell the committee last spring whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party, he was convicted of contempt of the legislature, and sentenced to one day in jail. The sentence was suspended...