Education: Exodus from Ole Miss

When he entered his first-floor office one night, a University of Mississippi staffman was just in time to see a figure clamber out of the window and dart away into the night. The prowler had stolen nothing, but he had ransacked the desk. What was the man after? The staffman's conclusion: any personal notes or letters containing sentiments in favor of racial integration.

At most any other campus, such a cloak-and-dagger tale would seem unbelievable. But in the last two years the whole segregation controversy has had some strange and frightening effects on the Ole Miss campus at Oxford (pop. 3,956). Last...

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