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Show BYU BANYAN YEARBOOK, 1970 ATHLETIC PROTESTS could only continue to insist that while BYU’s 1970 men’s varsity basketblacks were welcome, most would not be ball team. happy. “We have enough trouble recruiting non-Mormons,” stated athletic director Floyd Millet; recruiting blacks would be like “putting a cat in a dog pound,” added defensive tackle Scott Brayer. “Negroes who do come to BYU become so discontented they quit.”93 In the meantime, student officials at the universities of Arizona and New Mexico passed resolutions calling for a ban of all future athletic competitions with BYU, though Utah State University students reconfirmed their support of BYU. An all-WAC faculty council considered proposals to recognize an athlete’s “right of conscience in regard to playing against any given school” but adjourned without deciding if BYU should be expelled.94 Before the WAC faculty council closed, BYU’s Hartvigsen defended his school’s policies. Hartvigsen turned the issue of discrimination around, accusing critics of the real intolerance: “when a religious group is publicly condemned, picketed, and ridiculed because of an unfashionable doctrine that has not demonstrated social consequence, this is called bigotry. . . . It is 93 “Protest Waves Roll: Mormons Under Fire,” Daily Universe, November 4, 1969. “WAC vs. BYU,” Daily Universe, October 31, 1969; “USU to Support BYU,” Daily Universe, November 11, 1969; “WAC Embroiled in Racial Study,” Daily Universe, November 5, 1969; “No Decision by WAC Council,” LDS Church News, November 8, 1969; see also “BSA Demonstration Cancels WAC Meeting in Denver,” Daily Universe, November 6, 1969. 94 219 |
