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Evans Harrington, a novelist and member of the English department, taught at Ole Miss throughout the Meredith 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...
Allen was one of the out-of-staters attracted two years ago when the Law School began a program to improve the quality and variety of its teaching. Law Dean J.B. Morse recruited some of the best lawyers in the state to teach at Ole Miss. The Ford Foundation gave the Law School a $5 million grant to turn an already good school into the intellectual center of the state. Last year, Morse arranged to have a team of Harvard Law professors fly down to Ole Miss and teach, each for a two-week stretch. This fall, he hired five...
...newly-established dialogue at Ole Miss is most encouragingly illustrated at the Law School. As only a Southerner could, Dean Morse has been able to bring a group of students and teachers with an incredibly diverse range of opinions into an uneasy truce...
...Ole Miss Law School, over the next two years can encourage Dave Clark, and others like him, to reconsider the ideas by which they were raised, then it will have contributed more to Mississippi than all of the civil rights workers in the state combined...
Though the college, too, has made progress since the Meredith year, the characterization of Ole Miss as a "Greek country club" still fits pretty well. Sororities and fraternities have an inordinate amount of power. Education, for most of the undergraduates, is still of secondary concern...