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...crucial question is whether or not James Meredith will get his education," said Paul S. Cowan '62 yesterday. "Meredith's problem is more relevant to us than all of the psychological and personal questions raised by integration...
...John G. Butler '63 spoke at the last of three Cabot Hall living room discussions of race problems in America, entitled "Integration and Separatism." "Both are going on and should go on at the same time," Cowan claimed, "but the fact that students are making it impossible for Meredith to study at Mississippi has got to concern us more than our personal attitudes toward integration that have grown out of our own backgrounds...
...James Meredith knows what James Baldwin is writing about. Off for the holidays from the University of Mississippi campus, where he still suffers constant harassment from white students, Meredith last week visited Chicago-and scarcely had he arrived when he learned that several shotgun blasts had been fired at his father's home in Kosciusko, Miss...
Nobody was hurt, but, Meredith insisted at a press conference, that was not the point. "I haven't asked the local law enforcement to help because even if they knew who did it, they wouldn't do anything," he said. "But I'm not interested in what they do. I'm concerned that the Negro be treated like a human being and in his getting what is necessary to achieve this. It's not just my problem; it's America's problem...
...Meredith was annoyed when newsmen asked him about his grades at Ole Miss. The university has said nothing, but rumors persist that Meredith is doing poorly. "You people don't seem to understand," Meredith said. "Maybe you don't think it's a very serious situation. I hear over the radio that my father's house has been shot into and you ask me how my grades are. This is not a casual thing. My father is 71 years old. He has worked hard to send ten kids through school. It's a very serious...