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Show legiate sporting events with BYU.” 131 Wilkinson was furious: “I think that he was shocked at the vigor of my conversation. . . . I thought it was very indecent on his part to not call me before the statement was made.”132 As many as thirty-five hundred protestors continued to ag itate, with increasing violence, for the immediate cancellation of all contact with BYU; Washington’s black student union wanted Washington to be prohibited legally from entering into any new agreements with BYU.133 Wilkinson received permission from LDS officials to intervene in any court action and to arrange for the publication in Seattle area newspapers A member of a U. of A. factof a statement defending BYU.134 “From the finding committee sent to gauge beg inning,” wr ites the histor ian Craig the level of racism at BYU, Collisson, “the protest at the UW was more October 1971. militant than the protests at either UTEP or Wyoming.”135 “[T]he only possibility of getting our point of view over,” BYU’s public relations director, Heber Wolsey, told Wilkinson, “was to put an advertisement 131 “Huskies to Seek Review of Relations with BYU,” Salt Lake Tribune, February 4, 1970; “BYU–Washington Situation Unsettled,” BYU Alumnus, March 1970. Other schools ending, or contemplating ending, ties with BYU included St. Mary’s College (Moraga, California) and Seattle University. Board of Trustees, Minutes, April 16, 1970; “Seattle U. Student Officers Urge Termination of Relations with BYU,” Provo Daily Herald, April 24, 1970. 132 Wilkinson, Diary, March 9, 1970; see also “Demonstrators Seek Break with BYU; Hogness, Wilkinson Make Statements,” Daily Universe, March 11, 1970. 133 “Action Continues on Protests Against BYU,” Daily Universe, March 12, 1970; Wilkinson, Diary, March 13, 1970; “Panel Asks Washington U. End BYU Athletic Ties,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 27, 1970. 134 Minutes of a Meeting of Spencer W. Kimball, Heber G. Wolsey, Wilford Kirton, Ernest L. Wilkinson, Harold B. Lee, and N. Eldon Tanner, March 17, 1970, Wilkinson Papers. See also Wilkinson, Diary, September 2 and September 24, 1970; Wilkinson and Jay Butler, memorandum to the First Presidency, September 8, 1970; Wilkinson to the First Presidency, September 9, 1970; Wilford W. Kirton Jr. and Oscar W. McConkie Jr., memorandum to the First Presidency, September 14, 1970; Wilkinson and Butler, memorandum to the First Presidency, September 18, 1970, Wilkinson Papers; Board of Trustees, Minutes, October 7, 1970, and February 3, 1971. 135 Collisson, “The BSU Takes on BYU.” 225 BYU BANYAN YEARBOOK, 1971 ATHLETIC PROTESTS |
