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...school board of Galax, Va. (pop. 5,200) is composed of shrewd men who know how to kill two birds with one stone. Galax has long had a contract to take in white high school students from adjacent Grayson County, and the 285 students cost money. When a federal court recently ordered Galax to take in eight Negro county students as well, the board saw its chance. To save both money and segregation, it simply canceled the contract with Grayson County...
...board did not reckon with the students themselves. Last week 590 of the 598 students at Galax High School fired off a petition demanding that the 285 white students from Grayson be admitted -along with the eight Negroes. The kids raised such a fuss that 1,900 grownups signed similar petitions. Protestant ministers called sharply on the board to act "with respect for every human being and regard for the democratic privileges open to all persons." Faced with such a reaction, the school board hustled lawyers off to Baltimore to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to stay the integration...
...exception: Columbia University's President Grayson Kirk last week urged Columbia College to boost enrollment by 60% (to 4,000) as soon as possible...
This is Columbia's third tuition rise in the last five years. Even so, President Grayson Kirk noted that before the latest addition tuition had covered only 40.5 per cent of the cost of attendance...
...LIFE OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA (325 pp.)-Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson-Knopf...