School Without a Student

Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student--Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club--enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure on me was more than I could take."

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