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JAMES L. ROBERTSON 1L was editor of the Dally Mississippian last year...
...fashion-was Mississippi law. In Oxford last week, when a grand jury met to investigate the Ole Miss riots. Circuit Court Judge Walter O'Barr, 39, issued a diatribe that would have been laughable had it not reflected the deep feelings of so many Southern citizens. Said Native Mississippian O'Barr, a former mayor of Okolona...
Editors of the Daily Mississippian said the student body there was behind Kennedy, despite the violent anti-Administration feelings just two weeks ago in the integration riots...
...next classes, a crowd of students gathered in front of Conner Hall, where a campus newcomer named James H. Meredith had just completed a political science class. As Meredith appeared in the doorway, the waiting students began hissing him. He was a fellow student, a fellow Mississippian. and a fellow human being. But these likenesses were submerged by a terrible intensity of difference...
Beyond Satire. Absurdity kept cropping out all during the prolonged wrangle between unbending Governor Barnett and the U.S. Government, as if the participants were following a script by that Mississippian master of grim comedy, William Faulkner, who until his death last July was Oxford's most famous resident. After turning Meredith away at Jackson, Barnett got stalled in the elevator for ten minutes while the crowd out side the building yelled "We want Ross!" A gifted satirist could hardly have invented the dialogue between Barnett and Doar. And there was something sadly comic about James Meredith's desire...