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Though the Board has been subject to criticism from the state's politicians, the only instance of one of its decisions being circumvented occurred last fall. After the first of the three Barnett-Meredith meetings, the Board announced its decision to obey the court order and admit Meredith. The remainder of Gov. Barnett's actions were in violation of the constitution of the state...
Both before and since Meredith's enrollment, the Board stood firm before the vote-seeking bigots of the state who, fortunately, are more vocal than influential. In the summer of 1959 two members of this element, one a member of the legislature and the other a former legislator, drew up a series of "charges" against a dozen university professors for teaching alien and subversive ideas. The board conducted its own investigation, and issued a statement that the charges were completely false, and further expressed confidence in the administration of the university...
Except for the few months on either side of Meredith's enrollment in September, 1962, the majority of the students have been very antagonistic toward the Barnett element and its demogogic approach to the problems of the state. In the fall of 1960 Barnett was on the campus to crown the Homecoming Queen, and when he was announced to the crowd at halftime the boos from the student section were clearly heard over the applause elsewhere. In that same year, Barnett was invited to speak at a forum program, but after a few months of indecision, refused. During this time...
...supporters among the student body were freshmen), was more a protest against the Kennedy Administration that support for Barnett. And this popularity has been waning rapidly in recent months, especially since the Governor has failed to specifically deny Look Magazine's allegations that throughout the week before Meredith's admission Barnett was negotiating with Robert Kennedy, to whom he wasn't exactly saying the same things he was to the people of Mississippi...
Before the Meredith incident, Ole Miss was a typical Southern university. While almost every student, some more reluctant than other, admitted that he was there to get an education, few confined that education to "book learning." The social life of the campus, created largely by the glamour and spectacle of big-time college football and a well-established fraternity system, was an integral part of the average student's definition of "education...