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ENJOY RALLY WEEKEND Vol. LIV McKissick Describes Soul City Floyd McKissick in a speech in Dana Auditorium last Thurs day night talked of a " bold new experiment for the 70's"-Soul City. Expressing the need of "plan ning for people, not for profits," McKissick explained that Soul City would be a new town "built where we think it needs to be built," in an economically de pressed area in eastern North Carolina. McKissick said of Soul City, built by a team of people of dif ferent nationalities and relig ions, "We don't have to inte grate it because it has never been segregated." SOUL OF SOUL CITY McKissick used the "soul of Soul City" as the starting point to "discuss and examine our selves..., for analyzing the plight of the nation, problems facing the cities, and facing poor people." He listed aspects to be con fronted in the 70's as the con cept of nationalism ("neither integration nor segregation"), "the control of communities where black people are forced to live," "black competence," and "performance rather than rheto ric." Discussing the problems of contemporary American cities, McKissick said, "Some cities are so infested, there is no hope of saving them." "Amer ica the beautiful is becoming America the ugly." OPPOSES BUSING McKissick described bus ing to achieve school integra tion as an "imperfect solution for an impossible problem," (Continued on page 4) Roy Hill Arrested Black poet Roy Hill, a visiting speaker at Guilford and Bennett Colleges, was arrested on Wed nesday night, Feb. 11, for traffic violations. Driving an automobile owned by Guilford College, he was stopped, searched, arrested, and charged with failing to stop at a stoplight and disobeying a traffic sign. Hill was interrogated by police before being released on SIOO bond. The Greensboro Police De partment is currently conducting an investigation into the handling of the arrest. The arrest occurred at ap proximately 11 p.m. at the cor ner of Elm and Market Streets. Earlier in the evening Hill had conducted a program of poetry reading at Bennett College. Hill allegedly made an im proper left turn after driving through a red light. According to Hill, he drove through a yellow light, and failed to see the "no left turn" sign at the corner of Elm and Market Streets. The QuilfonScm ■RW Rallies Students, Faculty " 65 , .tm. t Hi Ifcu'L WKMKL HI photo by Willson Movement Protests Pollution Student Activists Turn To Environment WASHINGTON - (CPS)-The predominant theme of campus conferences, conventions, dia logues and teach-ins is shifting from "campus unrest" to "the environmental crisis." The shift does not indicate the solution of the problems that still puts students at odds with administrators, regents and poli ticians as much as it indicates the discovery that no students, administrators, or politicians will remain to tangle if America de-natures itself out of existence. The largest nationwide ef fort planned so far is the "En vironmental Teach-In" origi nated by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D., Wis.) for April 22. The teach - in is being coordinated by law, medical and other pro fessional school students here. The plan is for students on individual campuses to develop their own programs for studying, exchanging ideas, and initiating action on environmental prob lems, particularly those facing their own community. Like the Vietnam Moratoria, the teach in is a national idea developed on the local level. USSPA STRESSES ECOLOGY Other conferences on the en vironment will precede the April teach-in. The U.S. Student Press Association's (USSPA) annual college editors' conference will consider ecology in the light of "What's the Difference if We Don't Wake Up?" as it offers edi tors and other interested stu dents "a death trip" inWashing ton Feb. 27-March 2. Conser | Monday, February 16, 1970 vation experts and ecology pro moters will join political pros such as New York Mayor John Lindsay, Sen. Edmund Muskie, and Teach-In originator Nelson, as well as Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel and NBC News Commentator Chet Huntley. Mix ed' media presentations will be used to demonstrate the country's ecological plipht. Another conference, this one to put together student - faculty teams to develop strategies for solving ecological problems in their own communities, is being organized by former National Student Assocation (NSA) staff members. About 200 persons are expected to participate at Buck hill Inn, Pa. in February. Buck minster Fuller, writer and in ventor of the geodesic dome, will be among the invited par ticipants at the session spon sored by the Methodist Church Population Institute. CONFEDERATION FORMED A number of similar con ferences have taken place in re cent months. At one meeting at Stanford University, a Student Environmental Confederation was formed by 200 students at 40 colleges. The confederation is to coordinate campus efforts and serve as an information clear inghouse on ecological problems. At some California campuses there already are more than half-a-dozen environmental ac tions organizations. For several years, students in the San Fran cisco Bay area have been aware of their natural enviornment as they have fought to save the "Rally Weekend," a series of special events planned by the Col lege Union, will be conducted Thursday, Feb. 19 through Sun day, Feb. 22. According to a Union spokes man, Rally Weekend ("RW")is an effort to bring the student body and faculty together for a week end of fun and entertainment. EARL WILSON Thursday and Friday nights of the weekend will be highlighted by the appearance of concert art ist, Earl Wilson, Jr., in the Grill Room. Wilson tells the story, through song and narrative, of an average man from birth to age 35, en titled "A Day in the Life of Al most Everyone." Guilford is one of five schools chosen to preview this new talent. "ART HAPPENING" An "Art Happening" in the Hut, with "everything provid ed" will begin Saturday's activ ities. There will be a print sale and auction in the Union Lounge from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., fol lowed by a scavenger hunt at Founders. After a "family style dinner" in the cafeteria with the faculty, there will be a student-faculty Redwoods and to stop the filling if San Francisco Bay. Southern Jalifornia students likewise have lad to deal with oil pollution of .he Pacific around Santa Barba ra and Los Angeles' smog. 500-MILE WALK Currently, California ecology crusaders are planning a 500- mile walk from Sacramento to Los Angeles to exhibit models of ecologically sound life-styles. H H GUILFORD'S CONTRIBUTION TO ECOLOGY photo by Willson SPECIAL 1 | OFF-CAMPUS | | SEMINAR ISSUE f I NEXT WEEK &. v! basketball game in the gym nasium. Faculty and adminis trators will participate as play ers; referees,coaches, and cheer leaders. The student - faculty game will precede the Guilford-Pembroke basketball game at 8 p.m. In be tween events, "The Emporium" will entertain in the gym. Following the game at 10 p.m. there will be a dance in the gym, with music by the "American Music Band.'' "ALL NIGHTER" Two movies, "The Wrong Box," with Peter Sellers and "Barefoot in the Park," with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, will be shown in the gym from 2 a.m. until 6 a.m. Sunday morning. All girls will be allowed 2 a.m. permissions. Girls who wish to participate in the early morning events must sign a card given out at 2 a.m. in the gym. Girls who sign the card must agree to remain in the gym until after the second movie, which concludes at 6 a.m. At 6 a.m. the gym and dorms will open to enable students to have brunch in the cafeteria. Brunch will be followed by a "Church-in" to be held in the large parlor in Founders. See page 2 for a complete list of "RW" events. Two-hundred walkers are ex pected to take part from March 21 to May 1. The walkers will' be aided by a mobile library teaching unit, smog-free propane - converted vehicles, solar energized cook-, ing utensils, a street theater company, and carnival-type ex hibits. The hike, which will av erage 15 to 20 miles a day, is being organized by Ecology (Continued on page 4) NO. 17
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