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Broncos' Vbice March 1997 11 Students Attacked Continued from page 1 concerns. Chancellor McLeod deflected the students queries by offering that if the press hadn’t been invited to attend, he would have gladly an swered questions. Students continued with a barrage of questions when Chancellor McLeod abruptly turned away and left the meeting, waving a frustrated hand in the air as he went out the room. On February 23, the fol lowing Sunday, Bryant Hall residents awoke to find notices taped to their doors by the Stu dent Government Association announcing a 7:00 p.m. meet ing at FSU’s Shaw Auditorium to answer questions concern ing “recent campus events.” It also stated that no outside press were allowed to attend the meeting. The meeting did little more than further compound stu dents anxiety because (1) Chancellor McLeod didn’t at tend (he wasn’t invited), (2) no one from the Fayetteville City Police Department was in at tendance, and (3) 95 percent of the questions asked couldn’t be answered because they con cerned an on-going investiga tion. Twenty minutes into the meeting, three fourths of the students in attendance walked out in a display of frustration, solidarity, and silent comrodery. IMPLICATIONS The implications surround ing this incident are deep and far-reaching. During a “Chat With the Chancellor” open student forum held February 13, Chancellor McLeod was visibly shocked to find out that as a matter of routine, any grouping of students were or dered to disperse. He lamented that students are adults, that congregating (especially fraternities and so rorities) was part of college social life, and directed Cam pus Police Chief Bell to leave them alone if they aren’t do ing anything wrong. It would appear that the FSU campus police response to the students gathering at Bryant Hall con tradict his edict. In light of the recent level and degree of violent crimes on FSU, was the Campus po lice response intrusive or pro tective? What provoked them to order the students to dis perse? Who made the call to involve the Fayetteville City police? Can FSU campus po lice not handle a “distur bance” involving only sixty students? What are Fayetteville City police procedures of engage ment? Was excessive force used? Who has area control when both FSU and Fay etteville City police are dis patched to the same scene? Will or should this incident cast a haunting shadow of the on-going investigation into charges of racism on the Fay etteville City police Depart ment? Based on how this incident was handled, will or should Chief Bell lose his job? Were student’s fourth amendment right of freedom to peacably assemble abridged? Will stu dents use this as a rallying point to build a new level of unity and pride, or let the situ ation blow away like dust in the wind? Has Chancellor McLeod tainted his “put the student first” edict? Is FSU campus Police chief William Bell’s job in jeopardy? Will students fill lawsuits in response to this in cident? Has FSU’s growing reputation as one of the better UNC system universities been again tarnished? What does this incident say about the state of affairs on FSU and in America? Only Providence can know and Time will tell. This article is based on the re sponses compiled from students who were involved in the inci dent and represents their per spective. new information is gathered, more specific ac counts of the events that led to this incident will be published. However, it is a priority of this publication that students are provided the opportunity and vehicle with which to freely ex press their perceptions and per spectives concerning this inci dent. More later, ed. SLAVERY OF THE MIND continued from page 5 lynched and beaten for attempt ing to secure basic constitutional rights. Malcolm gave White America a choice, change America King’s way, or change America my way. King’s way was through “Nonviolent civil disobedience,” while Malcolm’s way was “By any means necessary.” King taught his people not to fight back, to kill White America with love. Malcolm told his people that they had a God-given right to defend themselves. He told his people fight back, not to attack, but to defend themselves. The decision for White America was simple; Martin and his people were not going to fight back. At this time in American history, any individual or group that did not directly align itself with the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., was misrepre sented by the media. The me dia lead the nation to believe that Malcolm was a warmonger, that he advocated a race war, and that he taught violence. We know that this isn’t and wasn’t true. The Black Panthers were misrepresented also. According to the media, the Panthers were a wiJd gun-toting militant group, who wore black berets, and were plotting to overthrow the govemment. In all actuality, the Panthers were a group who knew well their constitutional right to bear arms. They pa trolled their neighborhoods to stop crime and police brutality of blacks. The media would have us believe that the Panthers were like the KKK, but really there is no comparison. The Panthers never forced their will on a people using terrorist tac tics and cowardly bombings. They never hid their faces be hind sheets. The Panthers never lynched anyone, they did not murder one person, they did not bum one cross. Yet the Panthers represented a threat to the secu rity of the nation. They may have posed a threat to the socio political status quo, but not the nation. The Panthers advocated black pride, black self support, and black education. The media always managed to leave that stuff out. 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