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The Finger Points At Us... Will The Regents Rescind!Texas Western once again is placed in the position of the damned . . . when actually it is innocent.Once again the ugly finger of accusation is pointing at us and branding us with such burning terms as “racial discriminators,” “undemocratc,” and “hangoversfrom the Civil War.”And we who are innocent have to stand and absorb these barbed accusations because the Texas University Board of Regents, a body which governs this school also, has seen fit to pass a ruling which catagorically states that negroes may not participate in athletic contests on state playing fields.It has been demonstrated every time this question arises that both students and faculty at Texas Western are violently opposed to the Regents’ ruling, but still this insidious ban persists. . . . However,somebetion which is diametrically opposed to all of the doctrines of democracy and Christianity which have been instilled in us since the age of awareness.It is time the Regents realize they cannot force this rankling rule on us any longer.Westernbeenmunity. After all, bad publicity for Tex-WesternWesternaction is going ahead. Petitions declaring that students resent being forced to adhere to an undemocratic attitude have been circulated ... and the presidnt of the Student Council has sent a letter to the Board ofRegents requesting an explanation of the ruling.It is not necessary to launch into a dis- ‘ sertation about how negro troops are fighting and dying in Korea today . . . nor to' point out the noble achievements of such men as Dr. Ralph Bunche and GeorgeWashington Carver. We are not trying to prove anything except that a man is a man regardless of the color of his skin, and that according to the concepts of democracy and Christianity any other attitude is wrong . . . dead wrong.If it is necesary to go beyond moral dogma to point out that the Regents’ ruling transcends the legislative right of any American or Texan, we rerfer you to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and to Article One, Section Three of the Texas Constitution.The Board of Regents is necessarily a group of rational and intelligent individuals or they wouldn’t be holding such offices of high responsibility. We feel assured that they will not allow the current wave of protest to go unheeded . . .For in the final analysis, it is Hie student body, not the administrators, that makes a school.
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El Paso Prospector
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 07, 1950
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