The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1968 Page: 6 of 7
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THE MEGAPHONE
Friday, November 1, 1968
Pa^e Seven
Ole Miss Loses To Court
UNIVERSITY, Miss. (CPS)-For
the second time in two years, a fed-
eral court restraining order has
been invoked by University of Mis-
sissippi State Board of Trustees
from using their speaker ban to bar
civil rights leader Charles Evers
from an Oct. 2 speaking engage-
ment.
Evers had been invited by the
university's Young Democrats and
Students for Humphrey - Muskie
chapters. Evers, the brother of
slain civil rights leader Medgar
Evers, is NAACP state field direc-
tor and a Democratic National
Committeeman from Mississippi.
The afternoon before the speech
was scheduled, the trustees met
and announced that the students
must withdraw their invitation. In-
stead, two officials of the Young
Democrats, David Melpus and Dan-
ny Culpit, went to the federal dis-
trict court in nearby Greenville
and obtained the temporary re-
straining order.
Evers, who flew from Los Angeles
to give the speech when he heard
of the ban and the countermand-
ing order, called the Board action
“a slap in the face of all young
Mississippi whites.”
The speaker ban invoked by the
trustees requires that all speak-
ers invited to the campus of any
state-supported school “mustfirst
be investigated and approved by the
head of the institution involved,
and the named of invited speakers
must be filed with the Board.”
(Peter Fortune, Ole Miss chancel-
lor, was not responsible for this
instance, according to the trustees.)
A trustees' resolution further
says “speakers should not be ap-
proved who will do violence to
the academic atmosphere of the
institutions,” or who advocate “the
philosophy of overthrow of the gov-
ernment of the UnitedStates.*'The
resolution also outlaws speakers
“in disrepute in the area from
whence they come.”
The practical meaning of the ban,
according to many Mississippi stu-
dents, is to bar “political figures
whose stand disagrees with that of
the trustees.”
Two years ago Ole Miss offi-
cials attempted to use the ban to
keep Aaron Henry, state president
of the NAACP, from speaking on
the campus. Students and faculty
members got their first court re-
straining order at that time and
Henry spoke as scheduled.
That case, which may eventual-
ly lead to a ruling on the legality
of the speaker ban, is still in the
courts, awaiting the opinion of a
special three-judge federal panel.
The students who went to Judge
Keady cited other campus political
speeches this year as evidence that
the ban was being used unfairly.
Grass Fire Tues. Night
Three units of the Georgetown
Fire Department :v ered a call
to a grass fire -wag the Katy
railroad tracks at the west edge of
the university Tuesday night. The
alarm was turned-in about 8 p.m.
and only one unit was actually used
to control the blaze. The fire was
apparently caused by a freight
train, which was in the area short-
ly before the fire started.
Campaign workers for George Wal-
lace have spoken to large student
gatherings. A representative of the
Loyalist delegation to the Chicago
Democratic Convention also spoke
this fall.
The Trustees, who are appointed
by Democratic governor John Bell
Williams, apparently have the sup-
port of many state politicians for
their action in limiting speakers on
college campuses. But they have
also met opposition.
Clark Reed, state Republican
chairman, told the Mississippi
State University REFLECTOR he
thinks the state “needs more poli-
tical discussion and competition,
not less; Ole Miss students seen
more politically mature than the
people making decisions about
speakers.”
And Joseph Wroten, the Dem-
ocratic Loyalist, complained to the
federal court that since he had been
allowed to speak on the campus, the
ban was being used unfairly to bar
Evers' speech.
“But of course, I am white,” he
concluded, “which makes a differ-
ence.”
SU YR s Busy
As Novi Nears
The Southwestern University
Young Republicans will be busy
in the next five days. Saturday the
club will have a caravan into Aus-
tin for the address there by presi-
dential candidate Richard Nixon.
Nixon is scheduled to arrive in
Austin Saturday morning and pro-
ceed by car to the Municipal Audi-
torium for a 10:30 a.m. scheduled
address. The SUYRs will assem-
ble in front of the SUB at 8:30
Saturday morning. They plan to
leave by 9 a.m. and go by car
caravan to Municipal Auditorium
for the speech. Anyone interested
in going to Austin for the speech
is invited to contact a YR mem-
ber.
Next Monday and Tuesday the
YRs will help with a “Get out the
Vote” campaign in Travis county.
Anyone interested in helping with
this project is asked to contact
Bob Truitt, or any other YR of-
ficer.
CHAPEL
University Chaplain Charles Neal
announced this week that Rev. Wil-
fred Bailey, pastor of Casa View
United Methodist Church in Dallas
will be guest speaker at Thursday
chapel services next week (Nov. 7).
Rev. Bailey is “one of the most
progressive young ministers in the
United Methodist Church,” Chap-
lain Neal said. He said that Rev.
Bailey's church (in Dallas) was
selected to make a special film
by the United Methodist's Radio-
Television service. That film will
be shown in the Bishops Memorial
Union Lounge at 6 p.m. next Thurs-
day also. A panel discussion will
follow the showing of the film.
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Mail UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
(The following is a letter from a
recent graduate of Southwestern,
to a friend still in school here.
Both prefer to remain anonymous.)
22 October 196P
The nighttime darkness and fog
was being rapidly dissipated by the
morning mistiness that precedes
dawn in the swamp-lands around
this area. Dressed for the day's
activities, I got in my car, that
was as apathetic about going as
the sun was about rising. However,
with a gentle coercion that is sur-
prising to the non-mechanic, the
car was persuaded to function.
Driving along the outbound road,
I encountered remnants of fog in
the low areas. However, the farther
out 1 got, the more beautiful and
stimulating was the just-beginning
sunrise. Streaks of that unique
color, peculiar only to sunrise, fill-
ed the horizon to the left. Day-
dreaming at the aspects of such a
day, as poetically begun as this,
was impossible to control. A quiet
walk through bright shadows of a
dense forest, sharing that complete
composure and silent correspon-
dence that can be experienced only
with a compatible.
It was then, turning the car away
from the art-form ahead, that I
realized the grip of reality, and
remembered the original purpose
for this dawn drive. On this day of
peaceful solitude, I was -going to
qualify as a marksman - was going
to prove to myself and my super-
iors, that I had the ability to load,
aim and fire a weapon. I proved
my proficiency in the ability to kill,
and I may well have opportunity to
renew and support my rating as a
marksman. It was then that I
realized that in a few short weeks
I really will be in that peculiar
situation of being an invited guest
in an alien country to eliminate
selected populous. And to further
complicate the feelings engendered,
1 enjoyed it.
I'm going to Vietnam in Decem-
ber.
(name withheld)
Editors To NYC
Genie Hackenjos, editor-in-chief
of THE MEGAPHONE; Judy Fran-
ze, editor of SOUTHWESTERN
MAGAZINE; and Mary Callaway,
editor of theSOU'WESTER, are at-
tending a national student publica-
tions editor's conference in New
York City this week.
The MEGAPHONE was edited this
week by Lon Curtis, Associate Ed-
itor.
‘N ext week, maybe things will get
back to normal!*
November 1-11,1968 Schedule of Events
Friday, Nov. 1
7:00 p.m. Movie, "Spy Who Came in From the Cold",
Music Room
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. AWS Open House
8:00 p.m. KA Dance - House
8:00 p.m. Phi Mu Dance - Sam Bass
Saturday, Nov. 2
American Association of University Professors State
Conference
9:30 a.m. Intramural Football, Independents vs. Phi
Delta Theta
Zeta Tau Alpha Parents Weekend
12:00 Luncheon - Villa Capri
5:30 Picnic - Park
8:00 p.m. All School Dance - "The Sound Epidemic"-
Main Lounge
Sunday, Nov. 3
Texas Association of Student Personal Administrators
4:30 p.m. Phi Mu Picnic - Booties
11:00 p.m. ZTA-PiKA Pinning Serenade - Floyd Me
Spadden and Patti Proctor, LK
Monday, Nov. 4
Student Art Exhibit
Texas Association of Student Personel Administrators
4:30 p.m. Alpha Chi - Commons
7:00 p.m. A.A.U.P. - Faculty Lounge
Tuesday, Nov. 5
Student Art Exhibit
9:40 a.m. Committee on Representation - Commons
WRA Badminton Doubles
3:00 p.m. University Council
4:30 p.m. Faculty Meeting - RAC
6:00 p.m. Union Committees - Union
7:00 p.m. Congress - Music Room
7:00 p.m. Don Wink Gallery Talk - FAB
Wednesday, Nov. 6
Student Art Exhibit
9:00 a.m. Interviews with XEROX Corp. - Ad. Rm. 9-
T. P. Jones
6:00 p.m. Union Committees
7:00 p.m. Invitation to Learning-Faculty Lounge
8:00 p.m. Young Republicans - Main Lounge
8:00 p.m. Pre-Law - Dean Keeton - Music Room
Thursday, Nqv. 7
Student Art Exhibit
9:40 a.m. Chapel - Rev. Wilfred Bailey, Casa View
Metho. of Dallas
9:30 a.m. S.N.E.A. — Area Workshop - Union
6:30 p.m. Union Program Council
WRA Badminton Finals
5:00 p.m. Blue Key - Commons
8:00 p.m. Mask & Wig, "The Royal Hunt of the Sun”-
FAB
Friday, Nov. 8
Student Art Exhibit
3:30 p.m. Intramural Football, Independents vs. Pi
Kappa Alpha
8:00 p.m. Mask & Wig, "The Royal Hunt of theSun”-
FAB
Saturday, Nov. 9
9:30 a.m. Intramural Football, Kappa Alpha vs. Kappa
Sigma
8:00 p.m. Mask & Wig, "The Royal Hunt of theSun”-
FAB
8:00 p.m. Delta Zeta Pledge Party - Sam Bass
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1968, newspaper, November 1, 1968; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634892/m1/6/?q=music: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.