A Louisiana State University student comic miscellany (the Whangdoodle) printed a story of a fictitious visit by a Baton Rouge telegrapher to a professor's wife while the professor was away. Its undergraduate author was promptly expelled. The governor asked the university's president to reinstate him. The president refused. Soon the university had anew president.
Such was freedom of the college press in Louisiana under the late Huey Pierce Long. (The new president he installed, Dr. James Monroe Smith, is now in the sixth year of an 8-to-24 year sentence to the state penitentiary...
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