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Rocky Mount, N. C.
VOLUME XI NUMBER 7
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C,
Noa-Profit Organization
TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1969
Moratorium Supported;
NCW Students Attend
Students Arrested;
Colombo Comments
By ED SMITH
CHAPEL HILL—“Would you
buy a used war from this man?”
was the caption to a picture of
President Nixon on a placard
carried in last Wednesday’s
moratorium activities on the
University of North Carolina
campus here, and it summed up
the sentiments of the partici
pants in the moratorium.
Approximately 30 Wesleyan
students participated in the mo
ratorium activities here, part
of a nationwide student protest
against the continuing presence
of U. S. forces in Vietnam.
According to UPI estimates,
made on the scene, between six
and seven thousand students
participated in a march through
downtown Chapel Hill and a rally
in the University’s Memorial
Auditorium.
Speaking at the rally were
Jack Newfield, Associate Edi
tor of the VILLAGE VOICE, ho-
ward Lee, Mayor of Chapel
Hill, and Dr. Howard Levy, the
former Army Captain who ser
ved a three-year prison sen
tence for refusing to train Green
Berets.
Stirring thunderous applause
from his audience, Newfield
said, “University students have
for a long time been the con
science of America, and what
our consciencess dictate is im
mediate, unconditional, and to
tal withdrawal from Vietnam.”
At Nixon’s rate oftroopwith-
drawals, he said, ‘We’ll be
out of Vietnam by 1977 - and
that’s halfway to 1984.”
Calling General Westmore
land, “the Custer of Asia,”
Newfield said, “The U. S. has
already lost this war, because
we fought on the wrong side.”
“Richard Nixon is Lyndon
Johnson,” Newfield said, call
ing for a “majority for change”
dedicated not only to ending the
Vietnam war but also to rooting
out the nation’s domestic ills.
Howard Lee, Mayor of Chapel
Hill, cited three reasons for his
participation in the moratorium
against the Vietnam war: 1)^
as a Southern Negro, he be-
lives that American Negroes
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By JIM VAN LAAN
“The ironic thing, is that
what it takes years to create
takes Just a few minutes to de
stroy,” was the statement of
Vincent Colombo, Principal of
Rocky Mount Senior High
School, concerning the recent
disturbances in his school dur
ing the week of October 6
through October 10,
During this week twenty-one
The highlight of the Moratorium Day activities at U.N.C.-
Chapel Hill was a peace march involving several thousand
concerned citizens.
INews Summary
By DONNHENCHEL
International
Von Joseph Cardinal Suenens
of Belgium, a leader among the
reform oriented Roman Catho
lic prelates, said at a meeting-
in the Batican that all those
who want the papacy to be si-
miliar to an absolute manarchy
would tatally demolish the as
pirations for a “collegial” chu
rch fostered by the Ecuminical
Council Vatican II.
The Soviet Union launched
three separate manned space
crafts into orbit. The crafts
maneuvered near each other
but failed to complete any dock
ing maeuvers. The main pur
pose of the mission was to
set ground for a future attempt
at a permanent space station
which would permit astronauts
to live for unrestricted periods
of time in space.
Premier Pham Ban Dong
called the October 15 Mora
torium a “timely rebuff” to
the Nixon administration.
National
The Moratorium on Vietnam
was held Wednesday, October
15. In many large cities and
on many campuses, quiet, or
derly demonstrations • were
held. Armbands of various co
lors were worn by everyone
from truckdrivers to a platoon
of soldiers. The effect of the
Moratorium was substantial,
yet the “November 15 march
on Washington” will be the
focal point of the movement
next month. The November
march will be preceded on No
vember 13 and 14 by two days
of strike as welL
The New York Mets, who un
til this year were always hiding
in the proverbial cellar of the
National League of professional
baseball, moved their way up
into the National League play
offs and into the World Series
last week, where they shocked
the sports world by winning
the Series in five games.
F estival
Scheduled
WILSON, N. C.—The Third
Festival of Contemporary Arts,
. to be held on the campus of
Atlantic Christian College on
Oct. 30 - Nov. 6 will feature
the second performance of
HPSCHD by John Cage and Le-
jaren Hiller, Taking part in the
performance willbe guest harp
sichordist Neely Bruce of the
University of Illinois, who also
took part in the first festival.
Guest composer for the fes
tival will be Roger Hannay of
the University of North Caro
lina, Also present will be the
Alard String Quartet of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Special performances will in
clude “Vexations,” the 18 hour
40 minute piano piece by Erik
Statis; “Live and In Color,”
by Roger Hannay, “Carmina
Burana,” by Carl Orff, and the
first performance of a new mul-
ti-media composition “Western
Exit,” by the ACC composer
William Duckworth.
May Term Projects List
To Be Released Nov. 1
A. C. State Art Society
Announces Exhibition
By JULIE ROBINSON
The North Carolina State Art
Society and the N. C, Museum
of Art announce the 32nd an
nual exhibition for North Caro
lina artists.
The purpose of the exhibition
is to promote an interest in the
work of North Carolina artists
and to" provide an exhibition
of museum quality as a part of
the programs of the N. C. Mu
seum of Art. It will also pro
vide for the purciiase of works
by art by North Carolina ar
tists for public collections in
the state.
A jury consisting of three
artists will select a work for
First Purchase Award of $1,000
and three works for Purchase
Awards of $500each. The award
money has been made available
by the N. C. State Art Society.
The museum will have first
selection of one of the four
works chosen for purchase
awards for its collection.
Further information on this
exhibition is available in a bro
chure from the N. C, State Art
Society now in the DECREE of
fice.
The new list of projects for
the 1970 May Term will be
released by the Dean’s office
November 1. Project plans are
in the final stages of comple
tion now and faculty members
are turning them into an aca
demic council for approval or
revisions.
One of these is a study of
the sociology and anthropology
of religion under the direction
of Mr. Tucker, He also hopes
to study group affiliations, es
pecially from the point of view
that modern churches have de
veloped as they have as a re
sult of the people that belong
to them. Tucker plans to con
duct this study in Rocky Mount,
Raleigh and other nearby com
munities with interviews of
persons who are members of
churches in these areas. Tucker
has set for requirements for
this course the completion of
Introduction to Religion and In
troduction to Sociology.
A study of journalism and
the community press will be
conducted under the directions
of Mr. Mottershead, This
course will feature studies in
writing, reporting, feature wri
ting and the printing of the pa
per. Local communities and the
School of Journalism at Cha
pel Hill will provide the train
ing grounds for this study,
Mrs. Armstrong is planning
to offer a course in advanced
literary criticism during the
May Term, in which students
will examine both Dylan Thomas
and Vladimir Nabokov, Several
approaches to their works are
to.be provided. She would also
like to teach students several
new plays from France and Ger
many, Completion of a course in
literary criticism will be the
only requirement for these
courses and it will only be
necessary for those students
wishing to take the advanced li
terary criticism course,
A study in Washington, D, C.,
is being planned for the May
Term by Dr. Bond, Little in
formation on this course is
available at the moment. How
ever, a complete list of new
May Term projects will be post
ed around the first of Novem
ber,
students were suspended due to
their actions on Monday, Octo
ber 6, and 13 more were sus
pended for their conduct be
tween Tuesday, October 7, and
Thursday, October 9, accord
ing to Principal Colombo. He
said that these students were
dismissed for actions ranging
from carrying dangerous wea
pons to disorderly conduct.
Of the thirty-four students
dismissed from Rocky Mount
Senior High School, twelve stu
dents were arrested by the
Rocky Mount City Police, as
well as one non-student. All
thirteen of these offenders were
released on one-hundred dollar
bond.
Colombo also said that of the
thirty-four students dismissed
from Rocky Mount Senior High,
none, at the present time, have
been reinstated. He said that
the Board of Education of Nash
County was hearing the indivi
dual cases ofthe dismissed stu
dents and none of these stu
dents would be re-admitted
without a favorable recommen
dation by the Board,
Concerning tlie causes of the
disturbances, PrincipalCoIom-
bo simply said, “All I know is
just that some students felt that
they weren’t being treated fair
ly. They didn’t agree with some
of the regulations set up for
the school.”
As for requesting police aid,
Colombo stated, “We felt help
less to do anytiiing without the
help of the police.” He also said,
“The police will not leave until
there is some assurance that
there will no longer be any
need for police protection,”
Concerning the general atti
tude of the students, Colombo
said, “I think the atmosphere
is relaxing, but there is some
suspicion among the students,”
Precedent Is Set
For Handicapped
By ALLEN PERRY
A few weeks ago a recom
mendation from the admis
sions office was made to Dean
Moore in regard to the future
acceptance of wheelchair stu
dents to North Carolina Wesley
an College, The recommenda
tion has been misunderstood by
many to mean that a policy
has been set whichwould not al
low future acceptance of handi
capped students. This is not the
case.
In an interview with Mr, Gar-
low, Director of Admissions, it
was made clear that the new ac
ceptance procedure would only
affect those handicapped stu
dents who were completely con
fined to a wheelchair. The rea
son for the need of a more re
strictive acceptance policy
stems largely from the need
of an elevator in the admini
stration building. Without an
elevator, it is not feasible to
accommodate more than six
wheelchair students with down-
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