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...Painter G. Ray Kerciu, 30, assistant professor of art at Ole Miss, the sprawling painting he called America the Beautiful expressed all the raw violence and redneck inhumanity of last September's integration crisis at the university. Kerciu had watched the riots from his office window, and for two weeks afterward found himself unable to lay brush to canvas. But he wanted to express the drama of this turning point of state history. Normally a quiet, representational landscapist, Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted...
...been run by its rectors. They influence the rotating executive committee of trustees to which they report. They preside over the peaceable academic senate below them. In the 1930s one of them tried to build the school's reputation with big-time football (in 1936, C.U. actually beat Ole Miss in the Orange Bowl) and piled up a huge deficit. Another allowed the engineering school to lose accreditation (since restored) in the 1950s...
...recent years half of both the men and women students have been members of fraternities and sororities. The ratio between men and women at Ole Miss is 60-40. Though there are many exceptions to this rule, the Greeks usually have higher scholar tic average that the "independents," especially among the girls. Last June three students graduated with special distinction: all three were Greeks...
Though this might imply that there is a certain measure of discrimination by the Greeks against the independents, this is generally not the case. The fraternities and sororities are much more stable in membership than the independents, many of whom never last over two or three semesters at Ole Miss. In fact, many of the independents (and, admittedly, some Greeks) would never get into Ole Miss were it not for the fact that the University has to accept practically. every graduate of a Mississippi high school...
Last fall the administration's foot-ting was very unsure and hesitant, but as the riots recede into the past and James Meredith drops into obscurity, Ole Miss is resuming its task of preparing its students to be better informed and more responsible citizens of their chosen communities