2A - Thursday, December 10, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Thursday, December10, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: TUESDAY: ZVMONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Off the Beaten Path A TOUCHING PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY: Campus Clubs FRIDAY: Photos of the Week The Red Scare at Wayne State Just as it invaded Holly- wood and Washington, D.C., McCarthyism and the para- noia associated with it made an impact on campus culture at southeast Michigan univer- sities in the 1940s and 1950s. An article in The Michi- gan Daily article headlined,' "Campus Groups Branded 'Red,' " printed May 10, 1950, cites concern over two student organizations on the Wayne State University campus that had been labeled communist fronts by a prominent student and former communist, Glen Irving. The Young Progressives of America and the Labor Youth League were not officially communist organizations but were labeled such, due to their leftist platforms and accusa- tions of active "infiltration" of other organizations with "desire to yield to current communist ideals. pressures by denying forth- In the article, Irving right that the YP's were a claims that while participat- front!" ing in these organizations he MacDougall told the Daily was assigned to "infiltrate" that Irving was "a product of Wayne's Newman Club - a the present Communist hys- Roman Catholic organization teria brought about by the - and win "support for the world crisis." communist program" from Labor Youth League organization leaders. Chairman Hy Bershard said Neither of the groups' lead- that while his group was not ers were surprised by Irving's a front organization, many statements, the Daily report- of its members were Com- ed, but both took issue with it. munists and the chapter kept The president of the "the closest fraternal rela- Young Progressives of Amer- tions" with the Communist ica, Gordon MacDougall, Party. responded, stating, "The The Daily article did not group is not being run for address the leaders' posi- the benefit of the Communist tions on whether Irving's Party platform rather than accusation of being asked for that established by the to "infiltrate" the Newman National YP." Club was true. He would not, however, -ALIBEYDOUN JAKE FROMM/Daily Members of the Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble, perform student-written pieces on Apple iPod Touches in Britton Recital Hall yesterday. 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