Word: merediths
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...however, there are signs that Ole Miss is sliding back into its old pose of quiet case. The last class that went through the Meredith experience graduated in June; already the new students have begun to re-focus on sorority-fraternity politics and the Mississippi football game. The state-pointed Board of Trustees, which has been surprisingly tolerant during the last four years, is once again making noises about clearing the "radicals" out of Ole Miss. And the liberals on the college faculty, who have fought a constant series of battles for academic freedom since the Meredith year, are tiring...
...year after the riot, as long James Meredith was still at the University, U.S. troops remained on campus. The sight of federal troops at Ole Miss was almost as galling to white Mississippians as the presence of Meredith, for the University of Mississippi is very much the pride of the state, in everything from its football team to its law school. There are two larger schools in the state, Mississippi State and Mississippi Southern, but Ole Miss is Mississippi. The state's brightest students have always gone to Ole Miss; its political leaders, both good and bad, have always begun...
...first two years after Meredith, 58 professors left the university; most were either pressured into leaving or wanted to teach in a less volatile atmosphere. Several departments were badly weakened, and the History department was decimated...
...Meredith's year on the campus not only affected the faculty, but it shocked the students into a new view of themselves and of their University. The riot gave many of them a nation-wide perspective rare in the South...
...that desegregation at the University has been accepted now. Whites who associate with the Negroes are no longer harrassed, though they may be ostracized by other white students. Racially mixed groups come into the cafeteria without being hissed, and Negroes use the student union grill without being particularly noticed. Meredith often ate at the cafeteria, but never ventured into the grill, a more informal "hangout" for a number of the close-knit cliques on campus...