Photographs of Stanley Schlosman of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Sam Montqgue, of New Orleans, two of four students expelled for signing a petition requesting freedom of the press. Photograph press photo: verso: “two of four L.S.U. Journalism Students Expelled” “Stanley Schlosman of Marshalltown, Iowa… one of the four students expelled from Louisiana State University by President James M. Smith… as a result of signing with 22 other students, of a petition requesting freedom of the press on the University campus after senator Huey Long had censored the student paper. The other 22 students later signed an apology to president smith and were reinstated. December 5 1934.
Schlosman was 100 years old in 2013.
Schlosman was a member of “the Reveille Seven, a group of journalism students drew the ire of Sen. Huey P. Long after the paper ran an anti-Long letter in 1934.
Long ordered state police to round up the 4,000 copies of The Reveille with the letter blasting him for using LSU students to start a fake campaign to elect a LSU football player to the state Senate to replace Sen. J.Y. Sanders Jr. after he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
LSU apologized to the students in 1941 and recognized they were unjustly expelled.
Shlosman was recognized recently as the honorary co-chairman of the Manship School of Mass Communication’s centennial celebration at LSU. He was unable to attend the event, so Ridgecrest staff held a ceremony Tuesday to honor him. He worked for various newspapers after graduating in 1936 but spent the last 30 years of his career as a businessman in Monroe.”
quoted from “LSU comes to West Monroe to honor man it once expelled for standing up to Huey Long”
By Scott Rogers; December 10 2013
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