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...fairways. With her rhythmic, classical swing, Louise can whip the clubhead around and belt the ball with the assurance of most male pros. Halfway through the 72-hole tournament, Louise Suggs's steady shots had her out in front by one stroke. Behind her, tied for second, were Texan Betty Jameson and South Carolina's Betsy Rawls. Patty Berg was three strokes off the pace...
With praiseworthy calm and research, the Texan's supporters declared that the newspaper receives no money from the state. Rather, they contended, it receives funds from subscriptions and advertising and even makes its own investments. This overlooks the fact that the paper's offices are in a University building. A stronger argument shows that the law does not apply to the newspaper since it pertains only to state employees and agencies; neither heading fits the long-independent Texan. The friends of the free press also held that the law attempts to discourage lobbying or political activity but has no effect...
Faced with a barrage of legal and emotional protests, not to mention adverse national press coverage, the Regents have retreated from battle for at least a month, while the matter is analyzed by the University's student-controlled Publications Board, nominal publisher of the Texan. The need to take a stand places faculty members, a minority on the Board, in an awkward position--between sympathy with editor's idealism and fear of the Regents' power...
Although a final solution has not been reached, it seems doubtful that both sides will ever be completely happy. The editors will feel uneasy because the conflict is apt to be solved on legal rather than on moral grounds. A legal decision would overlook the original cry of the Texan--"The Texan cannot yield. To do so would be to deny the principle of a campus free from coercion...
...threat has not been removed and the Regents show no intention of doing so. The present prospect of the relationship between Texas and the Texan was described by the head of the school of journalism as a "partnership...