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Shannon Meets BSA

According to the BSA, Mr.
Chaffin arrested a black student
in the spring of 1971 and a
black assistant professor later
that year. "Mr. Chaffin only
later dropped the charges
against the two individuals.
The police records remained on
their files," the BSA said. The
organization demanded that
the police records be cleared of
the incident.

President Shannon met with
a representative from the BSA
on March 13 and agreed to
begin an investigation of the
two incidents. He said that he
would contact the BSA in one
week

Ten days later, having
witnessed no satisfactory
progress in the investigation,
the BSA assembled over 200
blacks on the Lawn to demand
the dismissal of Mr. Chaffin.