UNIVERSITY RIOTING

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 13

UNIVERSITY RIOTING

Alabama Student Expelled (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 12 Trustees of the University of Alabama today expelled one student ana suspended three others in disciplinary action stemming from while student rioting against Miss Autherine Lucy who attempted to become the college’s first negro pupil. Leonard Wilson, aged 20. who made speeches urging demonstrations against the admission of Miss Lucy was expelled Lesser punishment was ordered against 21 other students. Miss Lucy attempted to enter the university after a two year and a half Court fight. In February she tried to attend classes, but rioting broke out and she was suspended “for her own safety” by the board of trustees. A few days later she won another Court ruling that she be admitted, but the trustees almost immediately expelled her on the ground that she had falsely accused them of assisting the rioters. Miss Lucy was excluded from classes on February 6. She was expelled on February 29. Wilson. who addressed student demonstrations on the nights of February 3 and 4, was called from class today and told of his expulsion. Supreme Court Ruling In WaSiington. the Federal Supreme Court ruled today that the university graduate schools in the Southern States cannot delay admission of negro students under the “reasonable time” policy laid down for public school integration. The Court ordered the immediate admission of Virgil Hawkins, a negro, to the University of Florida Law School at Gainesville. Florida officials have sought to delay Hawkins’s admission on the ground that the Supreme Court last year adopted a policy permitting schools a reasonable time to carry out its anU-segregation order. But the High Tribunal held today that the integration on the university graduate school level does not involve the problems of public elementary and secondary schools. Hence, there was no reason for delay in admitting Hawkins to a graduate professional school.