Fast upon the heels of one race prejudice incident at the University of Wisconsin came another in the form of an accusation that certain university students were leading an anti-Semitic attack under the cloak of red-baiting.
A few weeks ago The Daily Cardinal, student publication, declared that three qualified students who had been running for election to campus posts had been defeated because they were Jews.
Victor Marcus, editor of The New Student, university organ of the local National Student League, revealed that a group of students, headed by William Haight, campus radical-baiter, had gone to advertisers in The New Student, urging them to desist from patronizing the magazine on the ground that it was run by New York Jews who did not spend money in Madison. Haight admitted the charge but declared that both Jews and Gentiles comprised the group which was fighting The New Student and added that their opposition to the publication was based not especially on the fact that The New Student is run by Jews, but on the alleged radicalism and unAmericanism of the publication.
Marcus plans an appeal to university authorities to stop the activities of Haight and his group.
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