Will you welcome students from: 1. USA and Dominions (excluding India); 2. Europe, 3. Middle East;
China, Malaya, and Japan; 5. India and Pakistan, British West Indies; 7. West Africa and Sudan?
This imperialist shopping list is presented t landlords who wish register with University of London Lodgings Bureau. serves not only to give offical endorsement t racial discrimination, but also to encourage it for landlords answering No to the question will receive an efficient, if racist, service fron the Bureau. And if it is only a question protection, that could equally well be achieve by listing only non-discriminating landlords the adoption of this policy has, in fact, becom the demand of a large body of opinion in th University of London.
The Bureau's policy is opposed by Student Unions in many colleges, including the Schoo of Oriental and African Studies, Universit College, and the London School of Economics in three days picketing outside the Bureau, ove one thousand signatures were collecter demanding an end to separate listings for whit and coloured students; more than two hundre teachers petitioned the Senate the governin body of the University) against the policy outside groups like the Black Panthers have len their support.
But the University authorities are throwin their full weight behind the Lodgings Bureau racist policy. None of the representations ha any eitect, and so on March 14 a one-day si down of students was called inside the Bureau to demonstrate a determination not to tolerat this racism within London University.
This threat panicked Sir Douglas Logan Principal of the University into closing m) Lodgings Bureau and gave him some capital t exploit when he appeared before th Parliamentary Select Committee on Studen Unrest.
He complained of being pressurised by "militant minority' after "consulting fully wit!