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The Maroon became more political over the following decades, prompting the Dean of Students to force the removal of Editor-in-Chief Alan Kimmel in 1951 and hold a university-wide election for the position. The newspaper continued to be highly political in the 1960s, and was even considered militant. During a campus sit-in after the firing of a radical sociology professor, Marlene Dixon, in 1968, The Maroon published daily and editors met with University President Edward Levi in his house while his office was being occupied by students.
SOME NOTABLE ALUMNI:
The University of Chicago has produced a number of notable journalists and writers, many of whom were Chicago Maroon staffers. •David Auburn (A.B. 1991) Pulitzer prize and Tony award-winning playwright of Proof •David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and chief strategist •David Brooks (A.B. 1983) Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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Charles T. Payne, 89, assistant director for systems at the University of Chicago Library until his 1995 retirement, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma August 1. Payne joined the library in 1964...
CHARLES T PAYNE WAS THE BROTHER OF MADELYN DUNHAM, MOTHER OF STANLEY ANN DUNHAM.
OBAMA LECTURES - 'RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON SELF INTEREST'
...prompting the Dean of Students to force the removal of Editor-in-Chief Alan Kimmel in 1951 and hold a university-wide election for the position.
Chicago Men Protest Dean's News SquelchOctober 10, 1951
University of Chicago students demonstrated last night against the university's suspension of the Maroon, the undergraduate newspaper.
Maroon editors organized the rally in support of Alan D. Kimmel, deposed editor-in-chief, who was bounced by Dean of Students Robert M. Strozier because he participated in the Communist World Youth Rally in East Berlin last August. The undergraduate editors demanded the support of the student body in their final issue.
Strozier, in a letter to Kimmel, said that Kimmel's action in sponsoring and attending the Youth Festival "demonstrates ... lack of qualification to edit a free and independent newspaper." A Maroon editor declared last night that Strozier favored "starting all over," with a completely new student newspaper and a different staff.
According to student spokesmen, the action of the Dean is in direct contradiction to Chicago's "student bill of rights," which guarantees "freedom from censorship or other pressure aimed at controlling editorial policy, with the free selection and removal of editorial staffs reserved to the organization."
Last night Strozier told the CRIMSON that Kimmel had claimed to represent the Maroon and the University of Chicago at the Youth Festival without the consent of either the Dean's Office or the Maroon. Kimmel "did not reflect credit on the university," Strozier continued. He pointed out that Kimmel had failed to re-register in the university this fall. Kimmel, a graduate student in geography went on a guided tour of Poland and the Soviet Union after the Youth Festival. He is expected to return to the Chicago campus at the end of the week.
The executive board of the student government has issued a statement favoring the deposed editor. General student opinion is still unknown.
Though Maroon editors wired the CRIMSON asking support in their battle, none has been given.
Name:
Alan Dorf Kimmel Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 04 Nov 1926
Event Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Registration Date: 03 Dec 1943
Registration Place: , Cook, Illinois
Gender: Male
Certificate Number: 51400
Military Service: 10 May 1945, Ft Sheridan, Illinois
