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Considering the cases of James Meredith at Ole Miss and Harvey Gantt at Clemson, Friendly said that "what might be a simple and quiet entrance of one Negro to one university could be transformed into a Roman circus, or indeed a riot, merely because we provided such an inviting audience and such a brilliant means for obtaining publicity." Friendly noted complaints that "the very presence of masses of reporters and photographers make what is already a difficult task close to impossible...
...nationwide exposure, hair curlers and all-but then again, they might not. Men have wrought considerable mayhem without a single reporter in sight, and there have been cases where reporters have even served as a restraining leash. "To be sure," Friendly admitted, "the presence of the press at Clemson caused no trouble and did not create a bad story out of a good...
JOHN F. SCARLETT FRED L. WALLACE Clemson College Clemson...
Lessons Learned. Things were much different in South Carolina, last of the Deep Dixie states to integrate any public school for so much as one hour. There, Harvey Bernard Gantt, 20, a second-year architecture transfer from Iowa State, walked through the front door of Clemson College's red-brick administration building. Gantt's peaceable entry into Clemson, a state-supported school with an enrollment of 4,000, was a triumph of good sense and planning. When it became obvious that Clemson would be required to accept Gantt, a call for law and order went out from business...
Thomas F. Jones Jr., left his native Mississippi years ago to teach electrical engineering at M.I.T. and Purdue, is all for taking desegregation "in our stride." Already well in stride is Clemson's President Robert C. Edwards, a former textile manufacturer, who is foresightedly preparing his 4,250 students so well that some of them even paid a sympathetic visit to Negro Applicant Gantt in court...