I’ve Made My Last Trip to Places like Mississippi

2016 ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Jason A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
College Board ◽  
College Basketball ◽  
State College ◽  
Closed Society ◽  
The University ◽  
Unwritten Law ◽  
Over Time

This chapter takes a closer look at the decision by the State College Board to eliminate the unwritten law, the first appearance of integrated basketball in the Magnolia State with the 1966 addition of Perry Wallace at The University of Vanderbilt, and the integration of Mississippi State’s college basketball program. In the 1963 aftermath of the unwritten law, Mississippi’s newspapers returned to support the ideals and values of the Closed Society and ignored the historical and social significance of athletic integration. However, over time, the views on race in Mississippi began to change. Evidence of this transformation in Mississippi’s press was apparent during the basketball-based integration of Mississippi State. In total, the anger and debate that had saturated Mississippi’s newspapers during the era of the unwritten law was gone and in its place was a Fourth Estate that attempted to find a journalistic balance.

Full Court Press

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The State ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Mississippi State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
College Basketball ◽  
The Press ◽  
Closed Society

During the civil rights era, Mississippi was cloaked in the hateful embrace of the Closed Society, historian James Silver’s description of the white caste system that enforced segregation and promoted the subservient treatment of blacks. Surprisingly, challenges from Mississippi’s college basketball courts brought into question the validity of the Closed Society and its unwritten law, a gentleman’s agreement that prevented college teams in the Magnolia State from playing against integrated foes. Mississippi State University was at the forefront of the battle for equality in the state with the school’s successful college basketball program. From 1959 through 1963, the Maroons won four Southeastern Conference basketball championships and created a championship dynasty in the South’s preeminent college athletic conference. However, in all four title-winning seasons, the press feverishly debated the merits of an NCAA appearance for the Maroons, culminating in Mississippi State University’s participation in the integrated 1963 National Collegiate Athletic Association’s National Championship basketball tournament. Full Court Press examines news articles, editorials, and columns published in Mississippi’s newspapers during the eight-year existence of the gentleman’s agreement, the challenges posed by Mississippi State University, and the subsequent integration of college basketball within the state. While the majority of reporters opposed any effort to integrate athletics, a segment of sports journalists, led by the charismatic Jimmie McDowell of the Jackson State Times, emerged as bold and progressive advocates for equality. Full Court Press highlights an ideological metamorphosis within the press during the Civil Rights Movement, slowly transforming from an organ that minimized the rights of blacks to an industry that weighted the plight of blacks on equal footing with their white brethren.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Jason A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Evolutionary Change ◽  
Black Athletes ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
College Basketball ◽  
The Social ◽  
Closed Society ◽  
Unwritten Law

This chapter serves as a summary of the evidence presented in the previous sections of the book and reiterates the evolutionary change that journalism in the Magnolia State underwent from the 1955 through 1973. Editors and reporters went from attacking the various colleges and universities for their quest for athletic glory and potential violations of the Closed Society to identifying the first black basketball players at these educational stalwarts as equals among their peers. By the time these schools began adding black athletes, the reign of the Closed Society was at a virtual end. The various challenges to the unwritten law and the eventual integration of college basketball in the Magnolia State was evidence of the social and ideological evolution in Mississippi’s press. While the athletic accomplishments of these colleges and universities may not have served as a direct catalyst for change, there was no doubt that the differences of opinions expressed in the pages of Mississippi’s newspapers was evidence of a society in transition from the iron grip of the Closed Society to the eventual acceptance of human and civil rights.

The Less Said, the Better

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-90
Author(s):  
Jason A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Social Progress ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Similar Argument ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Athletic Competition ◽  
College Basketball ◽  
The Press ◽  
Closed Society ◽  
Basketball Team ◽  
Unwritten Law

This chapter details the press coverage of the 1960-61 Mississippi State basketball team, which won its second SEC championship and spurred another press-based argument over integrated athletic competition. As detailed in this chapter, during the final month of the 1960-61 college basketball season for the SEC champion Maroons, Mississippi’s journalists supported and enforced the unwritten law and the Closed Society. While a similar argument existed for journalists in the Magnolia State in terms of the merits of the unwritten law, in total, the passion and commentary from Mississippi State’s 1958-59 season was lacking as only a select few argued for the Maroons to participate in the postseason, much less acknowledge the opportunity lost. Despite this level of neglect from the majority of Mississippi’s reporters, a degree of social progress could be found in Mississippi’s sports sections Vicksburg Daily News' Billy Ray and Dick Lightsey of the Biloxi-based Daily Herald, who joined the crusade of Jackson State Times’ Jimmie McDowell’s against the unwritten law, albeit for the chance at postseason glory.

AN EARLY VERSION OF PETER LOMBARD'S LECTURES ON THE SENTENCES

Traditio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 223-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK J. CLARK
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Teaching Career ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
Four Books ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time

The discovery of a copy (in Lincoln MS 230) of Peter Lombard's lectures on the Sentences in three books (starting with the hexameral discussion that follows the treatise on the angels in the four-book version edited by Brady) makes possible for the first time investigating the development of the Lombard's theological teaching during his Parisian teaching career and the fortuna of that teaching outside of Paris. The fact that the Lombard began his early-career lectures on the Sentences in precisely the same place as he began his lectures on Genesis means that all of his teaching originated with Scripture. Moreover, the fact that Lincoln MS 230 is one of many early copies of the Lombard's Parisian teaching found in English cathedral libraries — Lincoln's Cathedral Library has another manuscript containing another copy of the Sentences, Lincoln MS 31, this one on four books, almost certainly copied within the Lombard's lifetime — has revealed the inadequacy of Brady's edition for scholarly understanding of the Lombard's career and teaching. Until now, no scholar paid much attention to the fact that Brady's choice of manuscripts was largely arbitrary and that his edition reflected the state of the Lombard's text around the time of Bonaventure in the mid-thirteenth century. Thus this discovery makes clear that the Sentences, like Gratian's Decretum and Comestor's History, developed over time. The Sentences were not, as so long assumed, a book written by the Lombard late in his career but rather the product of lectures delivered over the course of his career. The discovery of a treasure trove of English manuscripts preserving the Lombard's earliest extant Parisian teaching will enable scholars for the first time to trace the origins and development of the institutional practices of the cathedral school of Paris right up to the time of its transformation into the University of Paris.

scholarly journals A Statewide Study of Perceptions of Directors on the Availability of Online Student Support Services at Postsecondary Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria S. Brown ◽  
Josh Strigle ◽  
Mario Toussaint
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Student Support Services ◽  
Student Support ◽  
The State ◽  
University System ◽  
State University System ◽  
Online Student ◽  
College And University ◽  
State College ◽  
The University

As a state university system planned for growth in the availability of distance education degrees, the presidents and the provosts decided to include consideration for the availability of student support services. To ensure availability of student support services for online students, college and university systems in the state developed and implemented a self-reporting tool, the Online Student Support Scorecard to measure the availability of those services at both the college and the university levels. Although institutions were offering many of the services identified in the scorecard as essential, institutions were struggling to provide some of the services. Differences also were identified between the types of services available at the state college system compared with the university system.

Sometimes, Even College Administrators Act like Freshmen

2016 ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
College Presidents ◽  
Junior College ◽  
University Of Mississippi ◽  
College Administrators ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
State College ◽  
The Press ◽  
Response State ◽  
The University ◽  
Unwritten Law

This chapter focuses on Mississippi’s first colligate venture into integrated competition, the creation of the unwritten law, and the first challenges to the gentlemen’s agreement. Jones County Junior College played against the integrated Tartars of Compton Junior College in 1955 only to be met with a barrage of racially based verbal attacks from Mississippi’s journalistic elite. In response, state politicians and college presidents banded together to create the unwritten law in an effort to preserve segregation on the playing field. The chapter also examines the coverage of the first challenges to the unwritten law, which were brought forth from the then-Mississippi State College and The University of Mississippi in December 1956. Scribes across Mississippi united in their criticism of the attempted violations of the gentleman’s agreement. Despite the varying amounts of journalistic attention paid to the occurrences, the paths taken in each instance by the press in the Magnolia State contributed to the enforcement of the principles and ideals of the Closed Society

Finally Persuaded: The Creation of the 1889 Geological Survey of Kansas

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rex Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
The State ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
State College ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
Kansas State College ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University

While much has been written about the State's first two geological surveys in 1864 and 1865, much less information is available concerning the establishment of the current incarnation of the Geological Survey at the University of Kansas in 1889. This paper briefly traces the events leading to the Survey's recreation: legislative attempts at a survey in the 1880's, arguments made for and against a survey, and the circumstances leading to the Survey's placement at KU. The Kansas Academy of Science particularly was active in the battle for a survey, and appealed to State pride and practical benefits as reasons for a survey's creation. The Academy finally succeeded in 1889, probably in part because of a burgeoning minerals industry in the State. In addition, a change in the KU budget allowed the Legislature to establish the Survey at KU without appropriating additional funds for its operation. No appropriation was made for the Survey from 1889 to 1895, although some field work was undertaken. This paper also explores several reasons that the Survey was placed at KU rather than Kansas State College.

The Young Radio Audience: A Study of Listening Habits

1953 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Hileman
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The State ◽  
General Study ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
State College ◽  
Listening Habits ◽  
The University

News is conspicuously absent from the top 25 programs rated by youngsters in a cross section of radio families keeping diary records for the University of Illinois. Mr. Hileman, who cooperated in the general study, is now assistant professor of advertising at the State College of Washington.

The American Medical Association as Reported in Six U. S. Dailies

1949 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Verne E. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
American Medical ◽  
The State ◽  
State College ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Organized Medicine ◽  
The University

Profound respect for organized medicine was shown by papers of widely different political views during period of anti-trust prosecution, according to analyses made for a master's thesis at the University of Wisconsin. The author is now instructor in journalism at the State College of Washington.

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