In a letter to the editor of the BYU Daily Universe about Martin Luther King, Barbara J. McDaniel laments the lack of interest in King's death on campus.
Barbary J. McDaniel, "Irony," BYU Daily Universe, Vol. 20, No. 126, April 16, 1968, p. 3, accessed December 5, 2022
IRONY
Editor:
Yes j.s.--and I think it is ironical that the Universe considers Martin Luther King Jr. second page news.
May I also say that few of us in the student body could probably comprehend the joy the administration must have experienced concerning the timing of spring break. Fortunately the question of whether to dismiss classes on Tuesday for King's burial was averted.
Let not one of us fail to add to Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech--and someday--someday "brothers" I have a dream that freedom will ring from "Y" mountain. I have a dream.
We here at the "Y" are co-conspirators with the assassin of Martin Luther King. In the words of famous prayer, "We have done those things which we ought not to have done and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done."
Barbara J. McDaniel
Editor's Note: We don't consider Dr. King second-page news; however, the civil rights leader was killed Thursday--a day after we stopped publishing for the spring break. We did not put out a paper until Wednesday, nearly a week later. By then the story was dead news.