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Friday, March 29, 1968 THE CAMPUS ECHO Experience Is A Lousy Teacher By JAMES VAUGHN The split level masonry of Five Points Park, Durham, North Carolina, held on to a fresh, innocent, unused look. Thousands of dollars had been spent to insure the tedious lay ing of each brick in its precise place, watched over by timid, young trees, a handful of dirt, and shrubs holding a promise to later blossom in an attempt to camouflage man’s natural ten dency towards the hard, cold, elements of steel, iron and con crete. But on the night of Feb ruary 15, 7:30 p.m., the park aged when two age-old elements of human nature clashed. Violence erupted as the power structure, the oppressor of the few, sought to continue its prac tices of oppression and exploita tion of human will and dignity, while the oppressed victims re sisted with the fury and deter mination born of being “fed-up”, “sick” of being “walked-on” and slaughtered at will by the oppressor. Protecting the brutal killing ®f three situdents, involved in a demonstration on a college cam pus in Ori\ngeburg, South Car olina by lofcal EK)licemen, mem bers of the IDurham Chapter of G.A.S. (Grkssroot Association for Students\ (from North Caro lina College lat Durham, Duke, Durham Bui^ess College and Hillside Hign School staged what was iotended to be a peaceful marfeh. Four-hundred students marched from North Carolina College through down town Durham t)o the newly con structed park. yA sober cere mony of prayerV hymns, effigy burning and a b rief si>eech was conducted in ho lor of the slain students. The carried out in m of a funeral un procession was iich the manner ;il the fire de partment, the police—Durham’s power stucture—decided to in tervene. The fla ties of the ef figy burning \ / e r e quickly doused by the filre department, drenching studeats along with the fire. The sti^idents then ig nited the coffin -tohich was car ried as a symbqil of the three slain students’ / deaths. High- powered water hoses were turned on the students who had formed a ring around the burn ing coffin. After the fire was extinguished the firemen con tinued to crush the students with the force of the high-pow ered hoses. Even after Howard Fuller called an end to the meet ing summoning students to line up on the sidewalk, following them relentlessly soaking the students in freezing weather laughing and jeering at their triumph over the students, the fire department continued its outrageous actions. Fleeing for protection the students ran down the streets. Outraged, some threw trash cans through windows of downtown stores dissappearing in the safety of the dark night, returning across the track. Some students walked, at tempting to remain calm and at ease in the face of danger. Mil ton “Toby” Fitch was one. As he passed a broken window of Belk’s Department Store, he was seized by policemen, quickly thrown against a building and frisked in the merciless fashion of the “Untouchables” frisking the hardened murderers of AJ Capone’s gang. As other police men approached in a rage. Ful ler pleaded with them not to assault Fitch further. Joining Fuller in his pleas was another polfceman, a Negro. Ahead of other students ap proaching the scene was an other group of policemen who proceeded to jab Fuller re peatedly in the stomach, chest, and about the neck, forcing him aroimd a nearby car. Fuller, in sisting that the policeman had no business beating him for he had not done anything, was dragged by policemen and thrown to the pavement. A young lady, Betty Marable, questioned the unprecedented actions of the police and was threatened by a raised police club. As she attempted to ward off the oncoming blow she was grabbed by the seat of her pants, picked up, and slammed against the pavement. Angered, another student darted towards the p>o- liceman only to be restrained by Walter Peguise, also a stu dent, who continued to maintain his composure. Yet as Peguise restrained the student from at tacking the pKjliceman, he was See Experience Page 4 Choice ’68 Viewed For student radicals these days, the menu has been sparse. Vilified by the press and Con gress for their noisy activism, scorned by the majority of their moderate classmates more con cerned with campus affairs, and lambasted from the pulpit for their flowing locks and sundry ^ other hygienic offenses, they seem to have nowhere to go. Their views, sound as they ap pear to them to be, remain large ly ignored, and their protests, correspondingly, have disinte grated into displays of cynicism and emotional diatribes aimed at the Establishment. The American democratic process strikes them as more absurd with each passing day—and each mounting crisis. CHOICE 68, the National Col legiate Presidential Primary, will probably either solidify the skepticism of the campus radi cals or cause them to re-evalu- ate their thinking as to the actual political power of the vote. If a sizeable percentage of college students do care enough to participate in the election, and, indeed, do succeed in ex erting some appreciable pressure over the policymaking of the country, then the radicals may well channel their considerable energies into the drive to low er the voting age to eighteen. If the Primary fails, however, to stir the long silent- student moderates or to influence American pKjlicy, then leftists will probably remain convinced that only forceful and, if need be, violent action will produce acceptable political ends. But of more immediate con cern is whether the radicals will participate at all in CHOICE 68. The ballot, certain ly, is well stocked with leftists and moderate-liberals, and the Viet Nam referendum questions should satisfy the most extreme of the radicals. The current an- ti-administration feeling among students would also seem to in dicate that a leftist vote is a dis tinct possibility. See Choice ’68 Page 4 J A Medical Answer For MUSCULAR LowBad^Emi Promptly Relieves Pain So Stiff Muscles Loosen Up and You’re Back Into Action Doctors who specialize in back troubles report most aching backs are due to weak, tense muscles which can go into painful spasm as you sucWenly bend, stretch or twist. To relieve such backache doc tors recommend the pain-relief compound in Anacin* Analgesic Tablets. And Anacin gives you more of this medication than any other leading tablet. Anacin is a special fortified formula. It promptly relieves pain, helps reduce swollen tissues, and so re- I leases pressure on sensitive back nerves. Then notice how stiff muscles loosen up and you move around with I greater ease. Only Anacin has this special fortified formula. It’s not found in any other, prod uct. See if Anacin's exclusive formula doesn’t work better for you. I' " KNOW THESE FINANCIAL DANGER SIGNALS A family “gone broke” is far from rare say researchers at state- regulated consumer finance offices; it happens to more than 155,- 000 Americans each year! One warning signal: if your installment debt totals more than 20% of your annual income, you may be head ing for financial trouble. Know These Danger Signals Each year, more than 175,- 000 American families file for bankruptcy. A far larger num ber are classified by experts as financially “vulnerable” — they are not in trouble now, but they could easily be if they suf fered any reverses. The time to take stock is long before you reach this point— but do you know what the warn ing signals are? Consumer fin ance company personnel and other economic experts have compiled the following list of things that may spell trouble for you and your family. A prime financial danger signal, say authorities in the field, is a combination of two financial conditions. If your sav ings for a rainy day are less than $200, and you have an in stallment debt that would take more than a year to repay at current rates, you are “vulne rable” to any kind of economic reversal. If your installment debt totals more than 20 per cent of your annual income, that’s another red flag of danger. If you or your family are in both catego ries, watch out; you are in a pre carious situation. Financial experts consider these conditions an overexten sion of credit and warn against assuming additional credit com mitments. This does not how ever, include a mortgage or non installment debt. Even the extra income pro vided by a working -wife can sometimes spell danger, accord ing to researchers for the con sumer finance industry, because the additional money often tempts couples to buy luxury items not needed for overall family well-being. Financial ex perts warn against including a wife’s salary in. financial plans for more than six months ahead. If your salary has remained the same in the past year, yet your bills have gone up, this could be another sign that it’s time to cut back. One way to find out how much credit you can safely carry is to discuss the matter with the manager of a state-regulated consumer finance office. Most of these small loan companies are members of the National Con sumer Finance Association, which suggests this formula to help you pull back in time from unwise buying commitments. Subtract such essential costs as shelter, food, clothing, heat, lights, etc. from your net in come (take home pay), as well as expenses already committed . . . for insurance and savings programs, and perhaps pay ments on previous credit xised. The portion of the take home pay remaining may be used for discretionary spending. It is the amount over which the consum er has some freedom of choice. NCFA experts advise spending no more than half of the un committed sum on new obliga tions. If you do go deeply in debt, See Signals, Page 4 SPEIGHT'S AUTO SERVICE “.4 Business With A Soul” THEODORE SPEIGHT, Proprietor • SPEEDY ROAD SERVICE • CAR REPAIRS • GASOLINE AND CAR OIL • FUEL OIL PHONE 682-3575 CORNER OF PILOT AND FAYETTEVILLE STREETS DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
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