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...even while U.S. law was moving, so-in its own fashion-was Mississippi law. In Oxford last week, when a grand jury met to investigate the Ole Miss riots. Circuit Court Judge Walter O'Barr, 39, issued a diatribe that would have been laughable had it not reflected the deep feelings of so many Southern citizens. Said Native Mississippian O'Barr, a former mayor of Okolona...
...grand jury returned its report-which was of predictable content. The U.S. deputy marshals who had been assigned to protect Meredith, it said, committed "many cruel and inhuman acts of violence." It commended Mississippi's state cops for "dedicated action." The encirclement of the Ole Miss administration building by marshals "was apparently done for the sole purpose of agitating and provoking violence,'' and Chief Marshal McShane's order to fire tear gas "was done for the purpose of inciting a riot." The jury then returned sealed indictments against two people. From the report, it was clear...
...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...