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Personal Opposition. Though most University of Georgia law students agreed with Cowen's evaluation of Rusk, word of the selection triggered an immediate outcry from conservatives on the 15-member board of regents that must approve the appointment. Regent Roy V. Harris, editor of the racist Augusta Courier and state chairman of George Wallace's American Independent Party, led the assault on Rusk's policies and qualifications. But Harris' blasts were not really aimed at the policies that have made Rusk persona non grata among liberals in the North. His target was Rusk's liberalism...