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The discontent still smolders, while 29 of the ousted students wage a legal battle for readmission. Their dismissal was upheld by the Louisiana State board of education last week in a bitter, clamorous hearing. As he told the board about the destruction of school property, Jones broke into tears and insisted that "we haven't lowered our academic standards —we've raised them." In fact officials of the Southern Regional Educational Board rate Grambling's faculty on a par with most Louisiana colleges, and 22% of its teachers hold Ph.D.s. The real point of the protest at Grambling is that Negro students are now aroused enough—and care enough—to risk expulsion in demanding a better college education.