Word: provost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even in California. Provost Ernest Carroll Moore of U. C. L. A. is distinguished for his hypersensitiveness to Red. A one-time member of Los Angeles' Republican County Central Committee, he believes that on adult issues students should hold their tongues "until they have mastered the tools which the race has found indispensable." Last fortnight he shocked and startled the State by declaring that his campus had become "one of the worst hotbeds of Communism...
Without consulting President Sproul, who is charged with full responsibility for University of California student discipline. Provost Moore took mighty measures to root out the plague. From the University for one year he suspended five student leaders. Four were members of student council: John Burnside, president; Sidney Zsagri, forensic chairman; Thomas Lambert, men's board chairman; Mendel Lieberman, scholarship chairman. Fifth was Celeste Strack, Phi Beta Kappa and champion debater. The four councilmen, charged the Provost had been "using their offices to destroy the University by handing it over to an organized group of Communists...
After these strong words the worst menace the Provost could produce was the local chapter of National Students League. A pinko organization which maintains a small, noisy existence on many a U. S. campus, the League devotes itself chiefly to crying down compulsory military training. At U. C. L. A. it has about 20 members...
Crisis which precipitated the Provost's purge was a proposal for a student open forum, with the immediate purpose of talking over the State campaign. Provost Moore forbade the forum. The student council meekly tabled the proposal. But the jittery Provost suspected four councilmen of plotting with Celeste Strack and other Student Leaguers to carry out the plan...
Abashed by the uproar he had produced, Provost Moore soon invited the four councilmen back to his fold. But there were strings to the offer and the councilmen declined. Declared they: "We are not Communists . . . nor have we ever used our offices for the purpose of furthering the program of any radical organization. . . . We feel an intense loyalty and pride in our University, and are anxious for reinstatement - but only as full-fledged American members of a truly American University...