Word: exonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was Exeter's first big bust. Randy Smith, a writer for the student newspaper, The Exonian, tipped off U.P.I. for whom he was a stringer. U.P.I. found out independently that Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's son was involved in the Benzedrex Inhalers. The deans got angry at Smith because he hadn't checked out the story with them. Next year in an interview for his college application a dean told him to "keep clean...
...using of what was said to be the boy's diary caused considerable anger among the students, and precipitated an editorial about it in The Exonian, which hadn't mentioned drugs all year. Dean Kessler said, "A faculty member may search a student's room only when it concerns the regulations of the academy...
Exeter has something called the Afro-Exonian Society. It has as members two whites (it is not allowed to be segregated) and most of the 40 blacks on campus. One student said, "In every dining hall there is a black table. Most prep school Negroes are white blacks who are mostly middle class. There's this guy in our admissions office who's really good and gets a lot of militants...
...Ernest Gillespie, Acting Principal of Exeter, initially approved Alpert's lecture, but changed his mind after the publication of an article describing Alpert's background in Saturday's Exonian, the student newspaper...
Students at Exeter were surprised by Gillespie's decision because the administration had recently advocated free speech at the school, according to David Finely, Associate Editor of the Exonian. James Jackson, Editor of The Worker, a Communist semi-weekly, delivered lecture on April 9, at which time school officials publicly justified his appearance...