Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, beneath this image of Ole Miss which has been sent around the world by the news media, there continues the questioning of beliefs, the search for new ideas and the analysis of old ones, the giving and taking of thoughts and opinions. Southern theories of racial inequality, the constitutional defense of states' rights, and the public careers of the major Southern politicians are constant topics for theses, term papers, and classroom discussion...
When a barometer other than news paper reports is used, the darkest period through which Ole Miss has passed between 1884 to 1963 not the riots last fall, but rather the late 1920's, the days when prohibition, anti-evolution laws, and the Ku Klux Klan flourished. Then Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo had well over 100 professors and administrators fired and replaced by his political supporters...
...Ole Miss today is leading the somewhat reluctant state of Mississippi through a period of transition. The rapid expansion of the transition. The rapid expansion of the School of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Engineering, Education, and Business is supplying the state's increasing needs, although many graduates of these school still leave the state...
...against its attackers largely through the efforts of Dean Robert J. Farley, the social and political science faculties have experienced a relatively large turnover. In 1961, the Department of History lost four of its top six professors, though higher salaries at other schools also influenced their decision to leave Ole Miss...
...those who came under attack in 1959 and was kept under fire largely through the efforts of one of his former students who now serves in the State Senate. During the 1961-62 school year he taught at the University of Missouri as a visiting professor, but returned to Ole Miss to teach in the 1962 summer session. But subsequently, he resigned to become a full professor at Missouri...