Robert Outis · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

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)