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...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. Now, in a dramatic reversal caused by Student...
Milk of the Crop. This pressure created a faculty that traditionally stayed out of trouble, heeding Chancellor John D. Williams' admonition to limit public discourse to "the area of your competence." Such restrictions were accepted because Ole Miss teachers are widely afflicted with what one of them calls the "associate professor syndrome"-they want only an undemanding job in which a man can almost retire. The syndrome attracts men willing to take low pay; salaries at Ole Miss average $6,863 a year, as compared with $7,934 at the not particularly munificent University of Alabama...
...Unless a man has a social conscience," says one professor who does, "there is nothing here to bother him." Hunting and fishing are splendid; three-bedroom faculty houses rent for $60 a month. Ole Miss has a few highly able students, as proved by the 19 Rhodes scholars that it has produced in 57 years. As for the others, says History Professor James W. Silver: "In a sophomore class of 30, before the end of the first month I'm talking to only five. If the rest don't bother me, I don't bother them." More...
...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...
...moving at last to action, the faculty has a powerful weapon: statewide fear that Ole Miss may yet lose accreditation when the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools meets at the end of this month. "If one teacher is fired for his views now," says History Professor Silver, "it will be curtains for the university." The faculty is thus free at last to make Ole Miss hew to law and learning. By all evidence, most professors are now solidly behind one colleague's summation: "The powers of darkness abound. It's up to us to work...