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...James Meredith lived in North Carolina, he might have entered an excellent state university by simply presenting his academic credentials. But Meredith wanted to be the first Negro to enter the University of Mississippi, in his home state, even if the schooling is not the best. The resulting riot and weeks of disquiet showed Ole Miss to be embarrassingly short of leadership. The chancellor proved to be a don't-rock-the-boat executive who did nothing to head off the riot, and then merely wrist-slapped offenders. The faculty has for years been equally meek...
...rest don't bother me, I don't bother them." More social than academic, Ole Miss is in essence an avenue to status in the state. The students are less the cream of the crop in Mississippi than the milk: good students go elsewhere, scholarly James Meredith being an exception...
Teachers began to move into this leadership vacuum on Oct. 1, the day after the Meredith riot, when some 40 of them volunteered statements to the FBI. They created a committee of nine, chaired by-Classicist William Willis, to prod the administration to action against rioters. From the 60-odd members of the Ole Miss chapter of the American Association of University Professors came a resolution denouncing Mississippi newspapers for distorted riot reports...
...students armed with firecrackers and cherry bombs continued to harass Meredith and the U.S. marshals who guard him. the teachers got bolder. Incensed at the constant uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at night to cool hotheads. The chemistry department threatened to quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee...
...felt rather badly about yelling 'Go to hell, Ole Miss' until I heard that they were yelling. 'Five, four, three, two, Let's send Meredith to LSU,'" commented Nancy Pearson...