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...wish to express our sincere gratitude for your splendid news coverage of the Rainey-Regents controversy at the University of Texas (TIME, Nov. 13; 27). We were particularly pleased that you gave publicity to the students' viewpoint, something that so many newspapers of the state have more or less ignored. The controversy is not yet settled and the student body and all other liberals of the state continue the fight for the restoration of academic freedom and President Rainey...
Texas last week furnished fresh evidence of what happens to a state-university president who fails to dominate, conciliate or knuckle under to his political superiors. At a State Senate investigation of the ouster of University of Texas' earnest, liberal President Homer P. Rainey by the politically-appointed Board of Regents (TIME, Nov. 13), Regent Orville Bullington, a rich cattle and oil man, belatedly produced what he apparently considered conclusive evidence of ex-President Rainey's incompetence...
Regent Bullington: "Dr. Rainey discovered a nest of homosexuals in the faculty as early as September 1943. He did not disclose it to any member of the board until eight months later, despite the rules requiring immediate reporting of such conditions...
Senator Wardlow Lane: "You don't mean to say that Dr. Rainey condones such things...
...University Dr. T. S. Painter accepted "under protest" the proposition of acting president. On the campus the Lone Star flag hung at half-mast. Said Homer Price Rainey, "I have great faith in the future of the University of Texas. . . . I'm going to take a good rest and get in some fishing...