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P: Without even giving him a hearing, President Ralph Draughon of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute bowed to the will of his trustees, summarily sacked Assistant Professor of Economics Bud Hutchinson, 36, for writing a letter to the undergraduate Plainsman praising the progress of integration in New York City's public schools. Said the president: "In the light of the emotions and tensions over this question in Alabama. I felt that Mr. Hutchinson could not expect to advance his career at this institution." Obviously, retorted Hutchinson, "professors who dare to perform their function of providing information do so at the peril of their jobs and professional reputation. It is precisely on emotionally charged subjects that debate and discussion must be allowed. If we condone an abdication of intellectual discussion on such matters, then emotion reigns supreme.''

P:On the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools, Bobby Lynn Cain, 17. marched into the gymnasium of the Clinton (Tenn.) High School to become the first Negro ever to graduate from an integrated school in the state. How did he feel about the months of violence behind him? Said Bobby: "It's been a rough year, and I wouldn't want to go through it again. But there's got to be a breakup in the old traditions of segregation, but you can't get to them overnight. I don't just want to go to school. I want equality. I want to be able to sit in the bus station just like white people. Maybe I've helped the breakup a little."

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