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THE VOICE...MARCH 20, 1971...PAGE 11 Mrs. Braggs feted before baby birih Mrs. J. Bragg ... Kent State ... (Continued from page 7) cording to one student who lived there, “Some days there would be 30 people staying there. Some of the kids are now on the ‘Wanted’ lists of the FBI.” This is among a number of factors which answer the question of whether outside agitators played a role in the events of Kent State. Michener reports that visitors to the Haunted House and other Kent com munes included such revolutionaries as Bernardine Dohrn and Mark Rudd, both now under indictment in bomb plots, and Terry Robbins, a member of SD3’s Weatherman faction, who is believed to have been killed in the bomb explosion last year in a Green wich Village, N.Y. townhouse. “As these dedicated revolutionaries passed through Kent, for the first time in its history the stolid uni versity rang to the cries of student demonstra tions,” Michener writes. Another outsider who played a role in fueling con flict between community and campus at Kent was Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, who spoke to some 2000 Kent State students in April. Among his inflamma- forv comments were these; “The most oppressed people in this country are not uic nvt poor, but the white middle class. They don’t have anything to stand up and fight against. We will have to invent new laws to break.” The Yippie leader added this challenge: “The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And 1 mean that quite literally. Oar parents are our first oppressors.” Says Michener, “it is hard to imagine a state ment more poorly timed or more certain to disturb the city of Kent.” Michener notes that the 28,000 white middle-class citizens of the town “played as important a role as the students themselves” in the riot-torn weekend. At Kent, the usual “town-vs.-gown” hostilities were aggravated by a singular feature: the main tracks of the Erie & Lackawanna railroad run smack through the center of town. Massive traffic jams occur when trains go by. The “Townies” blame the students for the jams (“If there weren’t so many damned students there wouldn’t be so many cars.”) and the students re ciprocate (“If the damned town would build a bridge over the railroad tracks, the jams wouldn’t happen. ’) When trouble started on Friday night, Michener notes, an off-duty patrolman who was moonlighting as a watchman in a local bar issued a “Signal 25” - a call which summons all off-duty police officers to the station. Mayor LeRoy Satrom was called and drove to the scene for the riot. North Water Street, a block in the center of town where a number of sleazy bars are congregated. When Mayor Satrom arrived, he “read the riot act” - an action which notified those assembled that they are acting unlawfully and must disperse. This incident represented the first official act by the town against the students and, says Michener, “chan ged the complexion of that night’s activities.” At that point, arrests of students began. Earlier, Mayor Satrom had notified Governor Rhode’s office by telephone that Kent police might need National Guard assistance. But before mat ters could get out of hand, another accident took place- this time a benign one. An electrical repairman near the riot scene was on a ladder fixing a traffic sig nal, when a car careened into his truck, knocking the ladder away and leaving the repairman hanging from the light. Suddenly, says Michener, everyone’s atten tion was on the man dangling in the air. Cops and kids joined in setting up rescue teams, and when the repairman was finally hauled to safety, a student recalled, “we heard more cheering than we do at a football game.” The tension broken, the crowd dispersed - for that night. Saturday was a day of telephoned bomb threats. Wednesday afternoon, January 27, 1971 at 4:00 p.m. the main Lounge of Bryant Hall was the scene of a Baby Shower given in honor of Mrs. Jean ette Braggs by the fe male dormitory direct ors. She is now the proud mother of a baby boy. Mrs. Braggs, secretary for the Associate Dean of Students for M-W, is af fectionately known by all the Dormitory Direct ors of the Women’s Residents at Fayette ville State University. She was showered with many useful gifts to wel come the little new addi tion arriving soon. The color motif of pink and blue was carried out in its entirety. Pink and blue plaits hung from the ceilings and entrances. The Honoree was pinned with a corsage of pink carnations and blue rib bons by Mrs. L.M. Gainey and led to a pink and blue basket which centered a table chocked full of gifts. After the Honoree and helpers placed all of the beautiful gifts on dis play, several funny games were enjoyed by all. Mr. Stork stood guard over a bowl of huge pink roses and carnations on the center of the table. Pink apple cidar, pink and blue cake squares, pink and blue mints and all those who choose to enjoy the stand by, hot coffee, was served. A poem wrapped in pink and blue ribbons entitled , A Thank You from Baby Braggs was given to all of the visitors as Sou- viniers. Etiquette Cannibals of tlie South Sea Is lands used forks—but only to devour their victims. Their re ligious cult did not permit them to eat human flesh with their fingers. Visitors More than 1.3 million passen gers moved through Jamaica’s two international airports last year. false fire alarms and violent rumors, Michener reports. “One detective told Mayor Satrom that he had spotted two carloads of agitators coming in from Chicago.” The Mayor had imposed an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew on the city, and had ordered all bars and liquor stores closed. Still the rumors and threats continued, and at 5:30 p.m. Satrom called the Nation al Guard. Five minutes later Sylvester del Corse, Adjutant General of the Ohio Guard, called back to say that troops would be available. Before they arrived, however, a mob estimated at 2000 roared down upon the ROTC building, their sin gle objective to burn it. According to Chester Will iams, Director of Safety and PubUc Services at Kent State, “We had plans to neutralize that crowd, and they were good plans. We had taken everything into account but the determination of that crowd.’ Firemen called to put out the flames could not get through the mob. Moreover, there is evidence that at least some of the crowd members were well equip ped to prevent the fire from being extinguished. According to fire-fighter Richard Workman, “These were real savage professionals who brought specific weapons with them to chop the hoses.” Another indication of the “professionalism” of some of the mob is the care they exercised not to allow their pictures to be taken, A photographer who took a flash picture of the burning ROTC building - and got many of the faces in the vicinity - was beaten and forced to surrender his film. Another student repoted to Michener that two young men leading the rush to the ROTC building were not Kent State students, and were discussing ways in which they could leave the campus after the night’s events had concluded. Shortly after the fire at ROTC had reached its peak, the National Guard arrived. The stage was not set for the tragic confrontations that would take place during the next two days. Frat established on campus The Tau Phi Tau Social Fraternity Inc., a black oriented Fraternity, was founded at North Caro lina College on November 14, 1968. The brothers of the Tau Phi Tau feel that there is a need for a change from the traditional fraternal ideas, pur poses and objectives, because of the black situation in today’s society. They feel that the black student should view his oppressive past with dignity and pride, thus creating in him fervor to become aware of the fact that he is a vital part of today’s world and that his culture and heritage cannot be suppressed. By culminating many of the principles of the culture of blacks, and expounding them, not only in the college community, but in the deprived community of more unfortunate black people, the members of Tau Phi Tau Fraternity feel that they will all feel a deep sense of pride in our embittered past. The Tau Phi Tau Fraternity has geared its main objective toward socialization that affects the lives of college students as well as the intrinsic nature of socialization that appeals to more unfortunate black people of the community. By sponsoring programs and civic events that deal with the nature of black people’s culture and their means of socialization, the Tau Phi Tau Fraternity hopes to close the gap that divides the college student and his inter mediate community. For many years, black students have graduated from college, not realizing their in herent past. They tend to forget the poverty, the sick ness, and the devastating realities of their environ ment. By enhancing and making the college student realize his true identity and not the sophistication of the bourgeois attitude which is prevalent in many col lege graduates, they also feel that the poverty and other traits attributed to poor black people can be eliminated by closing that so-called domineering gap. In January 1968, the fraternity was incorporated into the state of North Carolina. In March 1969, it was accepted on North Carolina Central University's Campus, and in February 1969, the dynamic singing group, “The Delfonics,” became the first honorary brothers of Tau Phi Tau. Since the establishment of Tau Phi Tau in Novem ber, 1968, the fraternity has come a long way. At the present, there is the Alpha Chapter of NCCU, the Beta at A&T, the Gamma Chapter at FSU and interested groups on such college campuses as Duke, Shaw, Wake Forest, UCLA, and Virginia State. The officers of the Gamma Chapter are Curtis Leak, president; David G. Walker, Vice President; Curtiss R. Little, Corresponding Secretary; Daniel C. Moss, Recording Secretary; William O. Lucas, Treasurer; Gerald Monk, Asst. Treasurer; Frank Bohannon, Dean of Pledgees; Sandy E. Robinson, Parliamentarian; Monroe Burke, Sergeant-at-Arms; Joseph Alsberry, Social Chairman; and Isaac A. Robinson, Advisor. Other members are: Joseph Allsberry, Victor Holland, Reggie Parks, Luther Grant, Roger Floyd, Clifton Gary, Leonard Isler, Guevester Deberry, A1 Ragland, Kenneth Keith, Also, Larry Powell, Willie Bethea, Harold McGill, Sam Middleton, Michael Sneed, Clarence Smith, Ed ward Simpson, Kenneth Conwell, Clarence Bridges, Eugene McArthur. Why Blacks don’t have complete unity Blacks don’t have com plete unity because they don’t always respect each other or the opin ions of each other. For years the white man has approached Blacks and lured them into turning against their people. It is he who has added to this lack of unity. For exam ple he told the slave in the house that he was better than his brothers and sisters in the field; he told the lighter complex- ioned Black that he was better than the darker complexioned brother or sister, and he even told him that the educated Black was better off than his sisters and brothers without an education. For simple and silly reasons as the ones men tioned the lack of unity still exists among Blacks today. Whatever the rea son may be, the time has come when unity is es sential in our future and present plans. Get to gether sisters and bro thers, not purely for the word unity itself, but be cause you are a proud and intelligent people. Barbara Willis
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