Gen. Troy Middleton, president of Louisiana State university said here Monday a Communist will not be tolerated on the LSU staff.
"If I ever have the slightest notion that one is hiding behind the bushes on any LSU campus, I'm going to be one of the first persons to go after him," he added.
Gen. Middleton discussed the recent legislative order to investigate LSU professors for possibility of subversion at a luncheon at the LSU Medical school. ,
The luncheon was attended by legislators from the New Orleans area, by members of the board of administrators of LSU and by faculty members from the LSU Medical school and LSU in New Orleans. It had as its main purpose discussion of LSU's request for a tax-supported appropriation for 1961-62 totalling $25,422,743. . JUST AND FAIR
Gen, Middleton told those attending the luncheon that LSU is under a cloud and he would like to see that cloud lifted. He said he does not object to criticism provided it is just and fair.
"We have 650 facutly members," he added. "Now if you took 650 leading citizens say of New Orleans or Baton Rouge or Shreveport and sifted through them It's-possible you might find an odd ball among them. You might find among them someone who would write the legislature a nasty letter."
Gen. Middleton said "if there's
AMONG THOSE ATTENDING the luncheon at Louisiana State university medical school at which the university's budget appropriation was discussed were (from left), Dr. Homer L. Hitt, dean of LSU in New Orleans;
—Photo by The Times-Picayune,
Dr. William W. Frye, dean of the medical school; Gen. Troy Middleton, LSU president; and state Sen. Charles E. Deichmann, New Orleans.
a Communist at LSU he's noi going to admit it." He said dur ing the past 10 years "we've had one Communist at the University and he resigned."
The LSU "prexy" said he wished that critics of the uni versity could live on the LSU campus a while and get to know the students, that he even wishes they could read the Harvard Lampoon to get an idea of what is being published at other universitiesPHOTO: AMONG THOSE ATTENDING the luncheon at Louisiana State university medical school at which the university's budget appropriation was discussed were (from left), Dr. Homer L. Hitt, dean of LSU in New Orleans; Dr. William W. Frye, dean of the medical school; Gen. Troy Middleton, LSU president; and state Sen. Charles E. Deichmann, New Orleans.
