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America's Pre-Eminent College Weekly for 68 Years
ninent College Weekly for 68 Years
A, ATHENS, GEORGIA MONDAY, JANUARY «>, t»fll
Number 11
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 11, HMD
"AN EDITORIAI
Your Responsibility
)<>lle Delays Integration;
egroes Fail To Register
hurled; more than
By TERRY HAZELWOOD
Last night u rock was thrown.
Last night a girl was injured.
Last night more than just a few rocks wer<-
one girl received bodily harm.
Ladies and gentlemen, this goes beyond good clean fun. It goes
beyond one s God-given right to peacefully assemble to state dis
approval.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is violence.
There is Uttle need to list here the atrocities which occurred last
night. AH you need do is pick up one of today’s papers.
• * #
Ladies and gentlemen of the University, you made history last
night. Are you proud of the manner in which you did so 9 We hoDe
not.
We hope you rabble rousers who planned, organized, and carried
through that little exhibition last night are not truly representative
of this campus.
\Ne hope that tin- real student leaders will realize now, more than
ever, the necessity of continuing with renewed zeal and enthusiasm
our mutual goal of non-violence.
We .*!?. pe , that • vou - tl "' individual student, will realize vour re
sponsibility in obtaining this goal.
It;s true; we are curious. This was beautifully shown lust night.
All it took was for somebody to say that a demonstration was going
to take place, and 1,000 students turned out as “curious onlookers.”
„ >rhe only trouble was, it was hard to distinguish between the
curious onlookers ’ and the demonstrators.
The rock thrown from this crowd hit a girl on the leg, but it could
well have hit her head and killed her. Nobody would have meant
tor it to happen. It would just have been an accident Yet it could
have happened.
And who would have been to blame? YOU. No, not the boy or
girl standing next to you. It would have been you who were to
blame.
• • •
The curious onlookers who gathered at the same location in the
light of day didn’t nnnd their pictures being taken. For the most
part they remained sane, silent and peaceful. They had nothing of
which to be ashamed. Those who gathered last night under the cloak
of darkness didn’t want their pictures taken. They knew thev were
doing wrong. They didn’t want anybody to record them in the act
n case you’re wondering if the photographer got your picture or
not, he did. 1 he whole nation is looking at your picture today,
that s what they were waiting and expecting to see.
Not one person who participated in that exhibition last night
would have done so by himself. When you and your room-mate came
up beside him, though, it was different.
Just multiply that a few times and look at the results
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you got your picture in the paper today
Was your name spelled right? J
stitution.
[> Newsmen
ver Arrival
TOMMY JOHNSON
y’egro students, apparently
to become the first of
je to attend the previously
> Uuiversity of Georgia,
o ncampus this morning
et by a fleet of newsmen
otographers representing
and magazines across the
\
.yne A. Hunter, 18, and
I Holmes, 19, both ot Atlan-
ired relatively calm as they
'ked from the two autos
ad brought them from At-
d made their way up Uroad
e arch and Into the Academic
•s and the students' purents
lied the two through a mass of
i and into the office of Regis
ter N. Danner. A crowd of
d students milled around
but there was no deinon-
whatever.
sions Counselor M. O. Phelps
n of Students Joe Williams
two Negroes in Danner's
They were quick to shut the
eporters, and the preliminary
Ion forms were filled out
. They remained Inside the
's office some 45 minutes,
eglstrar himself was absent
i conference, attending a
n Macon before U. 8. District
llliain Rootle.
8. Holmes, the Negro stu-
ither, was asked why he
tis son to attend the univer-
replied: "I think that's very
There is no Negro institu
te state which offers preined
The university does."
dor Holmes, who owns a
>ne company in Atlanta, said
Is "eagar” to begin classes
is possible here. When asked
ught his son’s attendance In
ould cretae tension and
violence, he replied: ‘‘It’s a
d risk we’re taking.”
the closed meeting was be-
ln Danner’s office, the neice
•Sted Georgia segregationist
ris of Augusta appeared at
»—also to register,
nusnu Harris, 21, of Wrens, said
Continued on page 2
Bulletin
Federal Judge Elbert P. Tuttle
of the Fifth Circuit Court of Ap
peals in Atlanta set aside this
afternoon at 2:30 the stay granted
by Judge W. A. Bootle earlier to
day in Macon. The new order
will enable Charlayne Hunter and
Hamilton Holmes to enter the
University immediately.
Non-Violence Urged
By Dean of Students
In Campus Meeting
Dean Joe Williams urged the
heads of the University’s campiiB or
ganizations to “accept their responsi
bilities as campus leaders” In the
present integration crisis in a called
meeting Saturday afternoon.
He warned the group of more than
100 students that trouble might ap
pear from persons outside the Univer
sity and that there are always those
In any group who will try to cause
trouble.
Urging them to impress on other
students their responsibility in this
situation, he said, "Your reactions
ure the reactions of the student body,
and 1 believe you will conduct your
selves in a manner which befits
ladies und gentlemen."
"I called this meeting to express
to you a faith that you will accept
this responsibility, and I want to
thank you in advance for the co
operation 1 know you will give,”
Dean Williuma commented.
During a question and answer
period, Dean Williams said, "I have
faith the school will stay open," and
spoke favorably of student petitions
to this effect.
“Many of the campus leaders
pledged their cooperation to Univer
sity officials during the Impending
crisis und openly stated they were op
posed to violence, demonstrations, or
anything that would be derogatory
to the University or its students.
Judge’s Order
To Get Appeal
By BECKY NASH
A stay of the order to admit
two Atlanta Negroes to the Uni
versity of Gerogia was granted
Monday by Federal Judge W. A.
Bootle at Macon.
Rootle hud ordored the two Negro
students, Charlayne Hunter and
Hamilton Holmes, udmitted to the
University Friday.
Bootle explained that he granted
the stay because "every litigant has
the legul right of appeal" and not
because of a state appropriations act
cutting off funds to Integrated col
leges In the university system.
Asserting that "time is of the
essence," Bootle laid down the fol
lowing conditions of appeal: 1. Op
posing counsel must confer at the
earliest possible time and before the
spring quarter to expedite the appeal.
2. The University must make avail
able all its records for consideration
by the appelue court. 8. Roth
sides nuiBt ask the appeals court to
hear the case at New Orleans Instead
of waiting for a session in Atlanta.
Typewritten, Instead of printed
briefs, must be presented to expedite
a decision. 4. The $5,000 bond to be
executed by the University will <!om-
pensate Miss Hunter and Holmes for
college or travel costs in the mean
time.
Judge Bootle’s latest action was
immediately contested by attorneys
for the Negro students who moved
at once to have the stay Invalidated
so the two might enter the University
as planned.
A hearing on the appeal from the
stay was set for 2:30 Monday after
noon In Atlanta by Judge Elbert P.
Tuttle of the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The applicants, MIbb Hunter, 18,
and HolmeB, 19, remained at Athens
to uwuit the outcome of the hearing
in Atlanta.
Miss Hunter and Holmes had little
comment when told of the latest
legal development in their cases.
"Naturally, I am a little disap
pointed," she said.
They spent a hectic morning mak
ing arrangements to start attending
classes and were almost enrolled
Continued on page 2
University student* sign petitions in Chapel
Ask legislature for open schools
Hamilton Holmes interviewed by reporters
Campus becomes news-gathering center
Charlayne Hunter (far right) follows mother and legal advisor
Curious bystanders gather to watch proceedings