Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Registration day, September 17, found student pickets around the administration building. Sixty-two students said they would not register in the college, and many of them still have not registered...
Referring to the Student Action 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...
Other considerations may have entered into the Board's action, however. Smith had been the Socialist candidate for vice-president and was head of the Teachers' Union. Fahy, Mabee, and Smith had condemned Akeley's ousting in the first student newsletter. And all five discharged teachers were connected with the union...
...this point, the Echo, student newspaper, became quite vocal on the controversy. Its editor accused the Board of union-busting and called for Ashby's resignation...
...occasion Parker brought some Wallace campaign literature to class at the request of a student. Later he brought more literature to class, and left it there on a "take it if you want to" basis...