Word: mississippi
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...affair. Harrington is one of the leaders of the Ole Miss chapter of the Association of American University Professors, which has fought a series of battles for academic freedom for the last four years. Just this summer, the AAUP got the courts to throw out the clause of the Mississippi loyalty oath which requires teachers in state schools to list all the organizations they have belonged to or contributed to in the last five years. The court case was surprisingly simple to win, but preparing the case, Harrington explains, took all the spare time he, and several other Ole Miss...
...last week, there has been another indication that Ole Miss and Mississippi society will not tolerate the kind of academic freedom commonplace at most other state universities. During a faculty art show last week, Robert L. Tettleson, chairman of the Art Department, personally took down a painting by Jairo Amaris, an assistant professor of Art. Amaris had been hired under an agreement stipulating that none of his work would ever be censored. When his painting was romoved, Amaris took all the rest of his works out of the show. The AAUP will consider whether or not to defend Amaris...
...either History or Political Science, and have to deal constantly with the race problem. "At least I can get away from it in my work," Harrington remarks. "Still, it's in my blood. All four of my novels have turned out to be mostly diatribes, complete with stereotyped Mississippi characters...
...changes were perhaps most clear last spring when more than 6000 people jammed the Ole Miss coliseum to hear Bobby Kennedy. They gave him two standing ovations, and there was little, if any, overt harrassment. In 1962, only four years before, the two Kennedys had been bitterly resented in Mississippi, and at Ole Miss. Bumper stickers were circulated reading. "The Castro Brothers Are in the White House," and "Mississippi: Kennedy's Hungary...
...significant swing to the Left at Ole Miss. Liberalism has been tolerated in the last few years. There has never been a place at Ole Miss for any real rebellion, but in the past, the students have consistently elected liberals and moderates as editors of the Mississippi. Even the Mississippian's temporary summer editor. Bob Boyd, criticized the Oxford school system for failing to observe federal desegregation guidelines. Boyd also attacked Representative Jamie Whitten (D.-Miss.), a conservative segregationist from Oxford's congressional district...