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When the University of South Carolina got a new president in 1944, alumni protested, facultymen seethed, and a group of students promptly burned him in effigy. It was not that they had anything personal against Rear Admiral Norman Murray Smith, U.S.N. (ret.). It just happened that his brother was one of the most powerful men in the legislature, and so the appointment smacked of politics...
Last week, when Governor James Byrnes announced that his longtime friend, Donald Stuart Russell, would be the admiral's successor, the odor of politics arose again. But this time the scent was false. Students, alumni and facultymen had been consulted, and all had agreed that Russell was a good choice...
...faculty for 20 years, is married to one of the Rollins trustees. Though the trustees had approved all of Wagner's economy measures in the first place, they also decided that Rollins' finances were not in such bad shape after all, and agreed to reinstate all the facultymen Wagner had fired with their consent...
Students and facultymen did see something wrong. For weeks they grumbled about it, and one instructor named Hoyt Bowen went so far as to denounce Moseley in chapel. Last week after Bowen was fired for "insubordination," the revolt broke out in earnest. At separate mass meetings, majorities of the faculty and student body rallied behind Bowen', passed resolutions of advice to the college administration about the Moseley-Armstrong money: give it back...
...facultymen saw it, an oath under such compulsion was insulting, superfluous and meaningless to boot, because real Communists would not hesitate to sign it. Governor Earl Warren and President Robert Gordon Sproul, both ex officio members of the regents, sided with the faculty. Since professors already take the constitutional oath required of all state employees, argued Warren, they should not be singled out for another...