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...Carolina, he might have entered an excellent state university by simply presenting his academic credentials. But Meredith wanted to be the first Negro to enter the University of Mississippi, in his home state, even if the schooling is not the best. The resulting riot and weeks of disquiet showed Ole Miss to be embarrassingly short of leadership. The chancellor proved to be a don't-rock-the-boat executive who did nothing to head off the riot, and then merely wrist-slapped offenders. The faculty has for years been equally meek. Now, in a dramatic reversal caused by Student...
Milk of the Crop. This pressure created a faculty that traditionally stayed out of trouble, heeding Chancellor John D. Williams' admonition to limit public discourse to "the area of your competence." Such restrictions were accepted because Ole Miss teachers are widely afflicted with what one of them calls the "associate professor syndrome"-they want only an undemanding job in which a man can almost retire. The syndrome attracts men willing to take low pay; salaries at Ole Miss average $6,863 a year, as compared with $7,934 at the not particularly munificent University of Alabama...
...twenty girls asked if they thought the spirit was as good as in previous years, eighteen said that LSU needed more spirit if they expect to win the (football) game (with Ole Miss). The other two thought that improvements in pep could be made...
...felt rather badly about yelling 'Go to hell, Ole Miss' until I heard that they were yelling. 'Five, four, three, two, Let's send Meredith to LSU,'" commented Nancy Pearson...
...flattened five Southern juggernauts, from Texas to Ole Miss, in six days, holding all of them scoreless. But it lost 44 consecutive Southeastern Conference games in the 1930s, and quit subsidized football...