‘Y’ asks off-campus aid

Susan Ford and Dick Simpson, “Y” presidents, pictured in this clipping from the Daily Texan, fall of 1962. (Click image to enlarge.)

Campus Chest cuts ‘Y’

Giving space to Students for Direct Action and similar groups did not help the “Y.” Also, a series of articles by Jimmy Banks that spring in the Dallas Morning News presented a slanted and negative view of the “Y.” The program for blind students was innovative. Most campuses had nothing comparable until the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. (Click on image to enlarge.)