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Where once the good, honest words "roast beef" sufficed, restaurateurs now add something like "blue-ribbon beef, thick and juicy." Diners know from experience that the steer got nowhere near a blue ribbon until it was served with a bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on...
The main thrust of what one Pikeville senior proudly calls "the only right-wing student protest movement in the country" is against the progressive policies of Thomas Johns, 37, a former Little All-America football tackle (Hanover College, 1953) who became president 19 months ago. Johns hired 30 new teachers...
None of this has gone over very well in a community so conservative that its newsstands refused to sell copies of LIFE and Look when they carried features on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last fall. Some students confronted Johns at a convocation last spring, charged that he...
"This liberal involvement thing asks students who aren't educated to solve problems that educated people can't," complained one student leader. A sophomore argued that Johns keeps asking students to do their own thing, "but we don't know what our thing is, and even if...
The trustees of the college have studied the complaints against Johns, who holds a divinity degree and a Ph.D. from Indiana University, and repeatedly voted their confidence in him. Despite the student complaints, he feels that the controversy on campus is educational in itself. "Peaches and cream doesn't...