Show calls for students' protest over Negro sit-ins from the University Press Service A nationwide student protest of the United States National Student Association against the recent arrest of Tennessee students engaged in non-violent sit-ins' has resulted in a deluge of over 50 telegrams sent to Nashville students and city and several standing strikes by students across the THE ASSOCIATION'S call for students across the nation to express their support for the entire sit-in movement and their condemnation of the recent Nashville incident has set off a chain of nonviolent actions throughout the Protest action begins The nationwide student protest was called in direct protest of the Nashville arrest and treatment of students by city Telegrams deploring the arrest and expressing sympathy with the sit-in movement poured in to Nashville students and Mayor Ben West and city police commissioner By 4 stand-up protests had been planned by the University of Chicago and other Chicago Chatham and Lafayette colleges in Lehigh Douglas and Rutgers colleges in New and the University of California at THE ASSOCIATION'S telegram to Mayor Ben West and police commissioner Hosey expressed at the actions of Nashville police and city and said the Association Saturday's gross miscarriage of justice in the arrest without provocation of American students engaged in non-violent protest of unfair discrimination in your The telegram as an officer of public have erred not only in fulfilling your obligations to the citizens of but also to the people of this country and to the ideals of our which you have You have offered yourselves for judgment before the people of this nation and the and you shall receive |