Robert Outis
- Title
- Robert Outis
- Date(s)
- 10/3/2019
- Interviewee(s)
- Robert Outis See all items with this value
- Interviewer(s)
- Katie Nichols See all items with this value
- Summary
- Robert Outis was a student at the U of I from 1963 to 1968. As an undergraduate, he served as the student government president. Although he was at the university before much of the anti-war and civil rights activism, he was involved with the cause for recognition of a chapter of the W. E. B. DuBois Club. The university’s administration received pressure to prevent the chapter to be recognized as a student organization. As student government president, Outis pushed a resolution through the Student Senate to allow the DuBois Club to use their offices if they were denied recognition from the university. Outis was subpoenaed to appear at a disciplinary committee meeting for his actions.
- Subject(s)
- dubois club See all items with this value
- protests See all items with this value
- student government See all items with this value
- student protest reunion See all items with this value
- Related Resources
- Chronology of Campus Protests, ca. 1972 (RS: 41/66/700)
- Committee on Student Affairs Minutes (RS: 4/2/21)
- Senate, Campus and University Committees (RS: 4/2/850)
- Senate Committee Reports and Correspondence File (RS: 4/7/4)
- The University of Illinois in the Cold War Era 1945-1975: Clabaugh Act (1947)
- Item sets
- Student Protest Reunion
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