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800 Students Sign Poll

Approximately 800 students signed a statement of interest concerning the College's admissions policy which has been circulating around campus for about a week. In signing, the students expressed the opinion that the College…

Truly the South has on her hands a real problem. This problem lies in the one question; namely, what shall we do with the negro or better still what shall we do for the negro. This question has been before the face of the humanitarians of the South…

Transcription: "ARE WE GOING COLOR BLIND? No question of the present generation is of such vital importance to the white race, or so dependent upon education as a remedy as that of the amalgamation of the two races who have lived side by side in one…

Vice President of the Faculty Assembly Cathy Forestell presented a survey from 2015 during a September Board of Visitors meeting. The survey showed that faculty of color report discrimination at higher rates than colleagues.

Nearly two-thirds of…

Blacks Reject Cultural White-Wash

By: Kermit Dance

Note: This article has been accepted as official policy by the campus Black Students Organization.

Much of the college community has a misconception about the college’s racial situation.…

Lincoln’s Job Half-Done…
When Lincoln freed the slaves, he undoubtedly hoped the Negroes would someday be accepted as equals by the other colors of people in this country. Today we find the Negroes released from formal bondage, but not…

William and Mary’s hiring practices are racially motivated, Ely Dorsey, chairman of the Labor and Industry Committee of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a visiting professor in the business school,…

This edition contains an article regarding President Davis Y. Paschall’s response to the integration mandate. The Health, Education and Welfare committee (HEW) requires that a “higher institution of learning” must integrate in accordance with…

Transcription:To the Editor:
We speak on behalf of many of our fellow students, both black and white, who expressed the same displeasure that we did in regard to a segment in the 1991 Colonial Echo. We write this letter as one of gratitude to the…

TIt's been two years now that the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the agency charged with enforcing federal civil rights legislation, has been wrangling with the College over its compliance (or lack of it) with the Civil Rights Act…