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Last September the Regents' interference with their president became more than Texas' students could stand. President Rainey received a message from Regent Strickland to stop making so many speeches. Although the Regents promptly denied that they had made any such official request, the Daily Texan, campus newspaper, hit right back: "Instances of smalltown 'school boardism' . . . have been too many to overlook the report of a 'shut-up' rule to the president of the institution...
...Time for Timidity. Onetime pro ballplayer, onetime Baptist minister, Homer Rainey felt that he had been pushed too far. At a special faculty meeting on Oct. 12, he made an hour-long speech, cataloguing his troubles with the Board. "The whole matter boils down to two major issues," he said: "The issue of the freedom of the University . . . and the issue of the recognition of the proper relationship between a governing Board and the executive and administrative officers. . . ." He hoped the breach was not "so wide ... it cannot be healed...
...Wallace's fellow students cheered wildly, then let loose a blizzard of free speech. Pro-Rainey leaflets, reprints of editorials, cartoons, letters came flying off the presses. Students were urged to mail these to parents, Congressmen, friends, home-town newspapers. A "Spread-the-Facts" fund was instituted with the motto: "Give until it hurts-the Regents...
...Regents met in executive session, fired President Rainey...
...Boiling Pot. Said Frederick Duncalf, faculty committee head, "The fat's in the fire now." "It's hell," agreed alumni spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...