Newspaper Page Text
Rebellion On Campus
It All Started With Tree Speech’ M ovement
(The student revolution has in
the past year shaken the
country as have few other
domestic issues since the
stormy civil rights movement
of the early 60s. It is a
" ' rebellion by youths white and
black as well as a social,
cultural revolution, this dis
patch examines the nature of
1 , the student revolt, its begin
nings, the reaction it has
generated and where it appears
to be going. The writer has
, specialized in covering campus
unrest for the past two years
and his report, completed after
a 7,000-mile visit to colleges
around the nation, reaches
! ' some pretty somber conclu
sions.)
In California, and especially
! , at Berkeley where the student
revolution began, rumors pro
liferate in an atmosphere of
suspicion and hostility. Students
say the university is shifting
I ' admission standards to attract
politically conservative, frater
nity types; that local officials
hushed up the shooting of two
' * police during the Telegraph
Avenue riots last summer; that
the federal government is
secretly preparing detention
> camps and that a nationwide
roundup of the left is imminent.
Faculty members tell stories
of secret classes in sabotage
, techniques and claim the street
people—the homeless hippies
who hang around Telegraph
Avenue—carry guns. One long
time resident swears the Black
[ ’ Panthers, the white radicals
and the Berkeley chapter of the
National Rifle Association all
practice at the same rifle range
. » on Wednesday afternoons.
During the most recent battle
in Berkeley police fired on a
crowd with shotguns and a
, National Guard helicopter was
used to spread tear gas over a
crowd surrounded by guards
men in the heart of the
campus.
One Killed
More than 30 people were
wounded during the shooting,
i one of them while he was
watching the action from the
roof of a building along
Telegraph Avenue. He died the
t following week, precipitating a
” ' new series of disorders.
“I’ve been here four years,’’
said John McKenzie, a soft
spoken senior at Berkeley, “and
II 1 each year it gets worse. You
can’t believe the bitterness
which exists on this campus.
“We view everything the
k! > university says with intense
distrust and overt pessimism.
Many of us won’t man the
I SsfeMta
■ hisSw
■'' ,M his
1/1/(/ fbrher
t-.- - ?••»>■
/CTm r ° l/z
■ I * u I nndg “
Happy
Father’s
&e3 Day!
t*— JT-aX —
n \ \ LAYAWAY
/ \\ NOW!
y 1
VACATION GOODIES
* 1 1 Be a modem Greek Goddess . . . live on a cloud of
comfort and good looks. Tom this
two-button Javelin short . . . watch how it skims
along easily with you ... a perfect dream by
* 1 h.i.s. for her. Vacation duds you’ll enjoy immensely.
Charge it 3 Ways ... Marsh’s, C&S and. MAC
■MAP/U7
barricades but we have and
despise Governor Reagan as
the worst in this country’s
history.”
Reagan feels much the same
way about the activists, habi
tually referring to them as
“criminal anarchists.”
“The issue is simple,” he said
in a news conference earlier
this year. “The orderly process
of education can’t go forward in
an atmosphere of violence.
“I no longer hear their howls
and pleas about what they are
striving for. I’ve got two words
for them: Grow up!”
The true beginning of the
struggle
During the free speech
movement one of the signs
carried in nearly every picket
line, rally and demonstration
read: “I am a student. Do not
fold, spindle or mutilate."
Students often complain they
are tieated like soldiers in
basic training rather than
Individuals trying to understand
a complex world and how they
fit into it.
The best expression of this
point of view is contained in an
essay called “The Student as
Nigger,” written by Jerry
Farber, a young University of
California at Los Angeles
English teacher. It has been
widely reprinted in the under
ground press and is frequently
mentioned by students trying to
explain why they feel lost in
giant state universities.
“Students are niggers,” Far
ber begins. “Once you get that
straight our schools begin to
make sense. . .
Nt Voice
“Students at Cal State are
politically disenfranchised.
They are in an academic
Lowndes county (in Alabama
where few Negroes although a
majority, were able to register
before the 1965 Voting Rights
Act). Most of them can vote in
national elections—their aver
age age is about 26 —but they
have no voice in the decisions
which affect their academic
lives.”
“The students are, it is true,
allowed to have a toy govern
ment of their own. It is a
government run for the most
part by Uncle Toms and
concerned principally with tri
via. The faculty and adminis
trators decide what courses will
be offered; the students get to
choose their own homecoming
queens.”
Large lecture courses, aloof
professors and arbitrary course
requirements anger students all
over the country. They feel
universities are less interestd
in teaching than in winninp
federal research grants.
Voice Not Power
Student power has rarely
figured in the demands of white
radicals but the lack of student
power is what swings the
moderates to the radicals’ side.
When students have a genuine
voice in a university.
In the outrage that followed
the violent eviction of students
from five buildings at Columbia
last spring, a strike coordinat
ing committee, dominated by
the Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS), was voted into
existence with a greater show
of support than could be
claimed by any other faction on
campus.
When the SDS showed no
interest in reforming the
university a majority of the
committee split off and formed
a group called Students for a
Restructured University. The
SRU made it clear it supported
the SDS demands for amnesty,
an end to war research and a
permanent halt to a proposed
gymnasium, but that it alsc
favored changes in the universi
ty to give students and faculty
a greater voice.
The desire for structural
reform was not restricted to
students. The executive com
mittee of the faculty, which
grew out of faculty attempts to
mediate between students and
the administration, also initiat
ed efforts aimed at changing
Columbia.
While the press, the public
and even the board of trustees
kept their attention focused on
SDS attempts to shut down the
school again this year, both the
SRU and faculty worked quietly
on their reforms.
FREE WEATHER REPORTS
SAN FRANCISCO UPD—
Seven Russian trawlers fishing
the waters off Washington and
Oregon are also giving free
weather reports to the U.S.
Weatrer Bureau.
Meteorologist Art Gustafson
said the Russians report
“religiously.” Their weather
messages, part of the United
Nations’ World Meteorological
Organization, are especially
helpful because of extensive
instrumentation on the big
fishing boats.
“COURTESY CALL"
WASHINGTON (UPD —
Robert Gardiner, executive
secretary of the U.N. Economic
Commission for Africa, met
Friday with Asst. Secretary of
State Joseph Palmer. A State
Department spokesman said
Gardiner’s visit was “just a
courtesy call.” Gardiner is
attending a conference held by
the Standing Committee of the
World Bank, the African
Development Bank, the U.N.
Development Prog ram and
ECA.
Legals
LEGAL 2051
GEORGIA, Spalding County.
On application of Ralph W.
Freeman, 623 West Taylor
Street, Griffin, Georgia; George
J. Addison, 911 Morningside
Drive, Griffin, Georgia; Mrs.
Edna P. Addison, 911 Morning
side Drive, Griffin, Georgia;
and Mrs. Virginia C. Freeman,
1449 Wesley Drive, Griffin,
Georgia, Artlles of Incorpora
tion have been granted to Quali
ty Motel of McDonough, Inc., by
the Honorable Andrew J. Whal
en, Jr., Judge of the Spalding
Superior Court in accordance
with the applicable provisions
of the Georgia Business Corpo
ration Code. The registered of
fice of the Corporation is locat
ed at 623 West Taylor Street,
Griffin, Gorgia, and its register
ed agent is Ralph W. Freeman
at the same address. The pur
pose of the Corporation is to
own, manage and operate a mo
tel, restaurant and other relat
ed activities usually appertain
ing thereto. The minimum capi
tal with which the Corporation
shall begin business is not less
than 11,000.00.
BECK, GODDARD, OWEN &
SMALLEY,
Attorneys for Quality Motel
Os McDonough, Inc.
By (s) JOHN H. GODDARD.
P. O. Box 118,
Griffin, Georgia 30223.
NOTICE TO FISHERMEN
Open 7 Dajs A Week
Fla. Pink Worms, 51 per
box; Red Wiggler», 60c per
box; Crappie Minnows, 4 doz.
$1; Leechies, 55c doz.; Gold
en Grubs, 55c box; Med. Liz
ards, $2.25 doz; Lge. Lizards,
$2.75 per doz.; Sm. Lizards,
$1 per doz. Plenty picnic sup
plies.
CLEVELAND’S
GROCERY & BAIT SHOP
928 N. 9th St. at City Limits
In April a proposal for a
senate made up of students
faculty and administration was
submitted to the university in a
mail referendum. The plan was
adopted by a margin of better
than eight to one In the largest
turnout ever recorded in the
215-year history of the college.
The SDS publicly discounted
the importance of the vote but
the group’s leaders privately
worried that it indicated a
basic shift in student sentiment
away from them.
SDS strategy during the year
shifted erratically from an anti-
Naval ROTC program to
support for blacks seeking an
Afro-American studies depart
ment and a plan for open
admissions at Columbia for
students graduating from four
largely black neighborhood
schools.
While the group floundered in
search of an issue it was also
seriously split by factionalism.
Last fall the SDS expelled its
labor committee because it had
supported the teachers’ union
during New York’s school strike
and this spring, after a stormy
six-hour meeting, it voted to
disband its expansion commit
tee for attempting to focus on
university acquisitions rather
than racism.
Unhealthy Situation
"An extremely unhealthy
situation had developed,” said
fl I iTIm 1 *1
for MO
ALL SIZES ONE PRICE! iKW
SAVE IIP TO ’37 PER
ON 4-PLY NYLON CORD
• BFG's biggest-selling 4-ply tire! SIZES offered*
• BFG Custom Long Milers! S! SSJ SS
• "Big Edge” long mileage tread!
• Easy terms with BFG ‘ Choice-Charge’’ whitmiis »$ mme perti™. IK
. r - 1 ONLY « assorted colors IN J
c ABnn each set. 3 f f 111 * ■
C Sb™ • tough durable j
C ( plastic. <
C ■ • AMERICAN MADE. j
te]!|,|!l J;l Jll r l l ULI fiflljsnp
*qn °“ r5 24 95
■Tior uv ® 11 I * on 9 w «® r ' n Q linings II r I
Site 8.5515 Only. Plus Fed. UTm of t? 1 ’ ' • Wheel bearings packed end aaa■
t iSM • “/"“‘.i— • FRONT END ALIGNMENT
SAVE $67 ON A SET OF FOUR in. P .ct.d. . lAIUCCI DAI AKirißir
SILVERTOWN 660 “WHITEWALLS" • Hydr.uitc fluid r.mi.d. •WHEEL BALANCING
tly n.co I ,. > .nc:r n " u > BRAKE ADJUSTMENT J
Priced aa ahown at B.F.Qoodrich Storei; competitively priced at B.F.Goodrich Dealers.
B B. F. Goodrich
217 EAST SOLOMON ST. PHONE 227-2248 _
one former member, active
during last year’s strike. “They
became obsessed with the idea
that unless they put themselves
completely behind the blacks,
then they were racists, too.
“The problem was that the
blacks did not seem very
interested in their support and
were completely uninterested in
the SDS demands about NROTC
and open admissions.”
When the blacks more or less
abandoned their own political
program in the middle of this
April, SDS leaders decided they
had to take an action of their
own or face the gradual
dissolution of the organization.
As a result they occupied two
buildings in a precisely orche
strated action, hoping to
provide a reaction by the
administration or to capture the
imagination of the students.
“You’ve got to make a
choice,’’ an SDS member told a
rally that night, “Either you’re
on our side, or you’re on tnen
side.”
The appeal was a complete
failure and the administration
maintained its composure. The
next day the SDS quietly
abandoned the buildings after
the university obtained a court
order authorizing their arrest.
Private Admission
SDS publicly insisted this was
only a temporary setback but
privately, again, leaders admit-
ted it was the end of their
program for the year. Opinion
on the campus was that the
group had been so sharply
defeated it might never recov
er.
When the university’s vice
president in charge of public
affairs, Ted Van Dyk, was
asked how ne explained the
SDS failure, he said, “I think
the majority of the students are
in favor of the kind of reforms
which have taken place this
year. I also think they believe
the university is negotiating in
good faith with the black
students.”
His answer was backed up by
a student. "The explanation,”
he said, “is that no one took the
SDS issues seriously, not even
the SDS. In this game the one
thing you must never do is
deceive your supporters, and
that is exactly what the SDS
did.”
The failure of the SDS at
Columbia and elsewhere indi
cates that white radicals must
return to university Issues or
fade into factionalism and
irrelevancy.
The SDS exists in a state of
self-imposed isolation, mostly to
dramatize the distance they see
between themselves and the
rest of society. At Cornell I
asked a handfull of SDS
members a couple of questions
and they said they would have
to meet and take a vote before
Griffin Daily News
they could answer. I told them
to forget it.
The single most important
fact about the student revolu
tion is that its true beginning
was in the South as part of the
civil rignts movement. It is still
closely related to the continuing
struggle between the races and
the passions behind the student
revolution are extremely unlike
ly to subside without a peaceful
accommodation between whites
and blacks.
Modern Form
The modern form of the civil
rights movement began in the
winter and spring of 1960 with a
wave of sit-ins that swept the
upper South. Frequently against
the advice of their more
WANT A PARTICULAR DRESS
OR SPORTSWEAR?
ESPECIALLY FOR YOU?
SHOP BATES DRESS SHOP
FOR BETTER SELECTIONS
BATES DRESS SHOPPE
A & P SHOPPING CENTER
7
Thursday, June 12, 1969
cautious elders, black college
students directly challenged the
Southern system in railroad
stations, public beaches, buses,
libraries, lunch counters and
department stores.
As the struggle spread, white
college students began to
organize sit-ins of their own
protesting discrimination in
housing and employment. Cam
pus chapters of the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE) and
the Student Nonviolent Coordin
ating Committee (SNCC) sprang
up throughout the country,
especially in the North where
local officials quickly expressed
their stern disapproval of civil
disobedience as a tactic for
winning reforms,