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...prep school for political power in Mississippi is the state university law school. The last four Mississippi Governors studied there; three-fourths of the state's lawyers attended Ole Miss; and there are enough of the school's grads in the Mississippi senate to control all legislation in the state. Ole Miss produced eight of the nine members of the Mississippi Supreme Court and all three of the state's federal district judges, including Claude F. Clayton, who last week firmly ordered do-nothing police to protect Negro schoolchildren from savage white mobs in Grenada...
What the law school is the state very largely is-and there's the rub. For a century the school allowed its all-white student body to ignore the winds of U.S. constitutional change, while steeping itself almost entirely in local law, customs and politics. Ole Miss law graduates emerged with their Deep South views untouched, after which they ran the state with an isolated narrow-mindedness that has mired Mississippi in racial tragedy...
...Meredith into the university; in 1966 the law school's 368 students include nine Negroes-more than can be found at almost any non-Negro law school in the U.S. As classes convened last week, the 21-man faculty also included eight recent graduates of Yankee Yale. The Ole Miss Yalies-along with many another surprise-were brought there by the law school's dean, Joshua Morse III, 43, once a country lawyer in Poplarville, Miss. It was in 1963, after he was chosen by a faculty committee to head the Mississippi school, that Morse made the enterprising...
...Course. The new mood at Ole Miss has created a new willingness to listen to outside opinions. Bobby Kennedy spoke there last March on racial discrimination, drew an ovation from 4,500 students. Law students also brought in as speakers Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Charles Evers and Atlanta A.C.L.U. Official Charles Mor gan Jr. Last year eight law professors from Yale and seven from Harvard spent two weeks each on the campus for what students dubbed "the jet-set course." Mississippians were fascinated. "Even though I might not go with them politically," says Student Jack McCormick, "I thoroughly enjoyed Archibald...
...Just because you ole hags can't appreciate good music or play gutiar worth a jellybean dosen't mean you have to go protesting about the Beatles. We think you're jealous because your stupid magazine isn't selling as well as the Beatle Albems. For petes sake, why go knocking the Beatles around? There doing better then you. By the way, both of us agree that Norwegian Wood and Day Tripper are not undecent. Where did you get that idea? Take our advice: state the right facts or flake...