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...campus are happy they did. "When a man finishes our medical course," says Columbia's Advanced Programs Director John Foster Jr., "he may not be able to remove an appendix, but he certainly can talk intelligently with the surgeon who did." Atlanta Constitution Editorial Writer Bruce Galphin, an ex-Nieman, offers more general praise of his fellowship: "Just by the example of the greatness at Harvard, you're ashamed not to do better things and try harder." Another Nieman Fellow, San Juan Star Columnist Alex Maldonado, says that "from Harvard, I could look objectively at the years...
...Bruce Galphin, a Nieman Fellow and race relations reporter for the Atlanta Constitution; told a Dunster House Forum last night that Georgia's experience may offer hope for similar progress in Mississippi and Alabama. He warned, however, that the absence of certain educational and economic factors in these states may prove the hope to be a false...
...Galphin said that public opinion in Georgia changed from a position of "massive resistance" as late as 1958 to one favoring nominal desegregation in 1961. He attributed the change to the public hearings held throughout the state in March...
...Sibley Commission succeeded in changing public opinion, said Galphin, because it posed the question as a choice between open or closed schools instead of segregation or integration. No one favored closed schools, Galphin said, although many failed to understand the question and responded by flatly declaring, "I'se for segregation...
From the transcripts of the hearings, Galphin has found that local government officials were the largest group in favor of closing the schools and resisting integration...