Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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WINTER BSU Walks Out Some 70 Oregon State University students—most of them blacks-made an appearance before an OSU centennial convocation to begin a three-week controversy over minority group and students rights. Protesting a ruling by football coach Dee Andros that a black athlete shave off his beard or lose his scholarship for the coming year, the students charged the university with interfering with student rights and sought support for a boycott of classes and athletic events. 28

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Christmas is More Than Finals and Vacation Dead week, finals, the term is coming to a close. Students are busy reading books that were going to be read before the midterm, researching term projects in a weekend, and studying for that final that will make or break this terms gradepoint. A stroll through the MU brings a chance to relax and realize there is more to Christmas than finals and vacation. An old fashion caroling party with candles and hot chocolate, sponsored by the MU, helps brighten dead week. For a few this would be their last re-memberance of OSU. 27

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ASOSU Senate that night voted to support the boycott of classes and to recommend adoption of the proposal made by a special committee on Minority Affairs as adminstrative policy. Earlier ASOSU President John Fraser had stated that he personally supported the boycott. In separate gatherings the next day, coaches from every major sport at OSU denied ever discriminating against any athlete, black or white, while a somewhat smaller Black Student Union rally was held in another part of campus. i 29