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To: Metacomet who wrote (255607)	7/9/2014 9:56:57 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542940

"What does flimsy have against Universitatis Arizonensis...my beloved almy mater." Still carrying an old grudge cuz y'all ( and I) didn't share his feelings about the need to boycott BYU. San Jose had millions and millions of protestors, and Ariz had 75. African-American athletes protested against LDS Church policies by boycotting several sporting events with Brigham Young University. In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, black members of the UTEP track team approached their coach and expressed their desire not to compete against BYU in an upcoming meet. When the coach disregarded the athletes' complaint, the athletes boycotted the meet. [78] In 1969, 14 members of the University of Wyoming football team were removed from the team for planning to protest the policies of the LDS church. [78] In November 1969, Stanford University President Kenneth Pitzer suspended athletic relations with BYU. [79 But wait; there's more. The color line is more complicated than that. From the same article However, in a study covering 1972 to 1996, church membership has been shown to have lower rates of approval of segregation than the national norm, as well as a faster decline in approval over the periods covered, both with statistical significance en.wikipedia.org