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...separate but equal"facilities, the old wall has been crumbling for nearly 60 years. But it was not until 19 years ago that Donald Murray entered the University of Maryland Law School under court order as the first Negro ever thus to cross the color line at a Southern campus. To Editor Ashmore, Murray's experience was fairly typical "At no time whatever,"wrote Murray,"did I meet any attempted segregation or unfavorable treatment on the part of any student in the school, or any professor...
...Disappearing Acts. At such campuses as the Universities of Oklahoma and North Carolina, early discriminatory practices (e.g., separate seats in the dining halls or at football games) have gradually disappeared. At Oklahoma A & M, the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas City, "white students . . . have sometimes taken the lead on behalf of equal privileges for Negroes both on and off campus . . . At the University of Arkansas a special mark of approbation was given a Negro law student when he was elected president of his predominantly white dormitory...
...main, however, the white students have maintained a detachment bordering on disinterest. It is noteworthy that there is virtually no evidence that Communist or Communist-front groups have tried to exploit the more sensitive aspects of the situation on any campus . . . Nowhere has the admission of Negroes produced anything like a boycott, nor has it been made a prime political issue...
...Hellenic Conference of the sororities, however, is working to establish a house for them on campus so that there can be more fraternity-sorority life. The student government is bringing the two parts of the school together, and there is perfect cooperation in all activities. The device of co-chair-5Thursday afternoon in the Gifford Hall library. The Student Union, the girls' dormitories, and the rest of the campus are quiet...
Results of comparative races favor the Crimson eight over the two-mile course which runs beside the Wisconsin campus and almost to the city shore-line. The Badgers' sophomore-laden crew finished third behind Navy and Cornell in its opener on Lake Onondaga and fifth behind fourth-place Harvard in the Eastern Sprints last week...