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"One man said 'boy, I dig your stuff, and won't you
come play at my club, I'll put your name in the lights up
above—Just remember I .got a club to run, so don't you be
too strong'" Jerry Jeff Walker
The appearance on this campus of Roger Mudd, who
spent a good deal of his time speaking on the alleged
intimidation of the press, came at a very crucial moment
for the Greensboro academic community. The recent
dismissal of Robert Collins as editor of THE COLLEGIAN
of Greensboro College has raised grave doubts about the
extent of freedom of expression which exists within
that community. One thing in particular which Mudd said
can be brought down from the national level on which he
spoke, and applied to our situation. He said "What the
national media . . . have dcfrne is to believe that their duty
is to put before the nation it's unfinished business . . . The
media, simply by reporting on these problems have become
the nation's critics, and as critics, no political adminis
tration will satisfy therrf."" The mere existence of the press
makes it that fact. It is not our purpose to comment on
the internal problems of Greensboro College, or on the
character of its Deans. But it is pur duty, as members of
the" same academic community, and journalists (even
student journalists feel a great sense of comradeship) to
come to the defense of Robert Collins and THE
COLLEGIAN.
The roots of freedom of the press in America lie in the
First Amendment of the Constitution, which states
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press ..." Congress certainly has not
interefered with THE COLLEGIAN. However, in the sense
that the administration of Greensboro College is part of
the congress of our community, being the duly established
governing body, it has without a doubt gone beyond any
established standards of N freedom of the press. Under
ground newspapers flourish in many of our cities, and
print stories far more militant than "The Dean" and have
not been silenced by the government. We have been
laboring under the impression that an academic com
munity is, as Terry Sanford has said, a free place in which
minds could be set free. The student may be, as Dick
Gregory told us, America's nigger for the seventies, but
even we niggers have some fundamental rights. That
question was put to rest in the courts and at the polls years
ago, and it seems rather odd that it still lingers on in the
strongholds of rational thought, the colleges and
universities. We will work within the system, but not
within a system that is stacked against us, and handed to
us as if it was open and with the attitude that we should be
grateful to even get that.
Kyd Brenner
*A free press is not a privilege
but an organic necessity in a great society 9
WALTER LIPPMAN
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What is peace? What do we
seek? This is one of the most
important issues facing individ
uals of draft today. It is
extremely irtiportartt- to those
considering alternatives to the
military because the answer
dictates courses of action; that is
how is peace'best achieved and
what individual commitments
can be made.
Webster's National Dictionary
as well as several others defines
"peace" in a negative sense. It is
the freedom from war or dis
turbance; a state of rest. By
definition it becomes a period of
nonconstructive absence; a peri
od between wars. Perhaps this is
playing with words but it is
necessary in a search for under
standing. Peace then is not a
positive state.
A cursory examination of
history shows why. There has
never been a time of true, lasting
oeace. There has always been
Letter
Foreign Students' Money Problems
Dear Editor:
Every person at one time or
another has an experience that
really brings him down a notch
or two. I admit to having such
an experience Monday night.
Thick heads and deaf ears don't
give way easily. But I feel
fortunate in having the light
permeate long enough to realize
where I was actually standing as
master of ceremonies for an
"issues '"d answers" coffee in
the En r lobby.
The was an expansion
of inter-cuitural studies at Guil
ford. But even more important,
we took a scrutinizing look at
the economic hardship faced by
foreign students on this campus.
The irony of the situation is
obvious when you understand
that my principle objective in
the meeting was the acceptance
of a proposed travel seminar to
Africa. Much concern was given
to how the large sum of money
needed for the project could be
obtained.
As the truth gradually sunk
in, it became apparent that
Guilford College has no scholar
ship money appropriated for its
own foreign students. In addi
tion, none of the U. S. govern
ment programs (work-study, de
fense loans, etc.) apply to
foreign students. This situation
is further complicated by the
fact that a student from Kenya
must pay seven times as much to
go to school in the United States
as in his home land. A family
RESISTER
by Sam Greathouse
war or destruction or conflict
man to man, city state to city
state, nation to nation, ideology
to ideology. And peace has been
the time gap between conflicts.
Thus the definition.
When has "peace" in the gap
sense occurred? It occurred in
times of political, military or
economic dominance. These are
interdependent and related be
cause' one dominance leads the
way for the others. Dominance
in any of its forms has its roots
in two basic sources. One is
frustration usually caused by
someone else's dominance. The
other is a thirst for power by an
individual'. This is a personality
trait. War then is a natural result
of the two roots of violence
either individually or collect
ively. And peace has occurred
when dominance existed. But
dominance carries the seeds for
new conflict. Thus the world is
trapped in a vicious of a time
could work a lifetime to earn the
equivalent of $70,000, which is
the figure we're talking about
for a four-year education. The
first realization of the evening
was the irony of our desire to go
abroad with the help of the
By Douglas Scott
"On the whole, I'd rather be
in Philadelphia." - W. C. Fields
So 1 went.
And I'm having problems
re-entering the fantasy land that
is Guilford College. Don't get me
wrong; I'm happy to be back
and all. It's just that the size, the
sheer immensity of that un
bounded by Friendly and New
Garden Roads has never been so
telling on me.
I've not lived a particularly
sheltered life. Nor am I a
country boy. I'm not particu
larly impressed by size or big
numbers alone, either. I even
fancy that I'm somewhat sophis
ticated where coping with new
experiences is concerned. What
I'm trying to say is that the
world out there isn't particularly
new to me. I watch the NBC
Nightly News, after all . . .
What's gotten under my skin
(this week's crisis, at least. Will
you allow me that, gentle
reader?) is the unnecessary divi
sion between the college and the
community. The mind and feel
gap peace. War brings domin
ance, dominance frustration,
frustration allows the power
individual who challenges the
dominant power resulting in
conflict and war. Peace then
holds the seeds of future war.
Thus "time gap" peace can
not be the answer. It needs to
become a positive state. It must
be based on structures not
related to dominance. In fact, to
succeed frustration and power
must either be rechanneled into
contructive endeavor or elim
inated. How this could be done
if not within the scope of this
column.
Since man has no previous
experience in a true lasting Peace,
a redefining lies in the realm of
philosophy and conjecture tem
pered by individual thought.
This dictates an individual search
for a positive definition. Only
then can a universal concept of a
positive peace become meaning
ful and applicable.
The individual through his
awareness and his definition of
peace is the core to a world wide
peace that is positive, that lasts,
that does not contain the seeds
of war. The universal concept
arises from the overlap and
interplay of individual defini
tions on a worldwide basis. Here
too, the method for bringing it
ings (It doesn't matter that
Hesse's MAGISTER LUDI was
last week's before-bed reading).
Maybe that's not a fair way
to look at it all. If any of you
can explain, to my satisfaction,
why there SHOULD be a split,
I'll bow to your explanation and
award you one contemporary
American. If not, I'll rant,
quietly and sincerely, on. OK?
We're here in fantasy land
preparing to go out THERE?
Are we really a dedicated elite of
mind? What are we doing,
anyway?
Why are people bombing
buildings? Why are college edu
cated aviators bombing people in
Viet Nam? What the hell kind of
Quaker is in the White House?
What kind of student is stoning
the cops instead of teaching
kids? What kind of Senate
(Remember, they've been to
college, kids!) passes no-knock
laws?
Have we lost track of how
each of us FEELS here? It's so
sad. So sad. "I'm so tired and
wasted, it's so sad."