VOL. LV
Kent People Arrested
On Friday, October 16,
twenty-live Kent State people
were indicted following the
results of the Ohio grant jury
findings. As of Wednesday morn
ing eight arrests had been made,
but the names of the remaining
seventeen will not become pub
lic until after they have been
apprehended. Among those ar
rested are the student body
president and an associate pro
fessor of Sociology, Thomas S.
Lough.
Alan Canfora, who was
wounded in the May 4 shooting,
was charged with second degree
rioting, as was Kenneth Ham
mond. Douglas C. Cormack, who
is not now and never was a Kent
student, was arrested for first
degree rioting, for tossing rocks
at a fireman and "interfering
with a fireman at the scene of a
fire." Another non-student, Jer
ry Rupe, was charged with
arson, assault on a fireman,
interfering with a fireman, and
first degree rioting. Attempting
to burn property and Ist and
2nd degree riot charges were
brought against Larry Shub, and
a former Kent student, Richard
C. Felber, was arrested for
assault, attempting to burn prop
erty, striking a Fireman, inter
fering with a fireman at the
scene of a fire, and first degree
rioting.
Associate Professor Lough
was charged with inciting a riot,
although no specific act was
Jury Indicts Twelve
After hearing the testimony
of more than 300 witnesses, an
Ohio state grand jury has pub
lished its conclusions, which
disagree with the findings of
both the FBI and the President's
Commission on Campus Unrest
(the so-called "Scranton" Re
port). These two investigations
recently earned President Nix
on's disapproval by placing
much of the responsibility for
last spring's incident on the
reactions of the National Guard.
The grand jury, in contrast,
totally exonerated the guards
men of blame for the four
shootings, stating that . . . "the
Administration at Kent State
University has fostered an attit
ude of laxity, overindulgence
and permissiveness with its stu
dents and faculty to the extent
that it can no longer regulate the
The QuiffonS'cw
cited. He pleaded innocent and
was released on SSOOO bond.
Craig Morgan, an advocate of
non-violence and head of the
student body, was arrested for
being part of a "tumultuous"
crowd and released upon paying
SIOOO in bail.
Both faculty and student
groups have reacted to the
indictments by calling for a
federal grand jury investigation,
indicating that the federal gov
ernment would be more just
than the state. William Kunstler,
well-known attorney in the Chic
ago 8 trial, has volunteered to
represent those arrested free of
charge. An apparent unueasy
feeling has now settled over the
university, with students want
ing to do something, fearing to
endanger the cases of those
people who have been arrested,
and worrying under the threat of
a brand-new Ohio law, which
makes any campus disruption a
crime.
Education Conference
Held At Quaker Lake
The meaning of creativity and
creative education was the ob
ject of a search for teachers,
administrators and education
students from Friends' schools
all over the East at a conference
last Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday at Quaker Lake.
activities of either and is particu
larly vulnerable to any pressure
applied from radical elements
within the student body or
faculty."
Dr. Robert I. White, president
of Kent State University, ob
tained special permission to hold
a news conference, after a court
decision modified the restraining
order that prevented anyone
who had testified at the trial
from discussing the proceedings
with newsmen. White was, how
ever, forbidden to criticize the
jury report in any way. At the
necessarily limited news confer
ence, the university official
merely expressed his sentiments
about the indictment announce
ment, saying that "Indictment is
not conviction; guilt or inno
cence remains to be proved in
court."
Qc tob er 23,1970
Protesting Kent State Indictments
HOMECOMING BOYCOTT
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The conference, sponsored by
the Education Department of
Guilford College, and the friends
Council on Education, was ad
ministered by Dr. Cyrus Johnson
and Bruce Stewart of Guilford
and was attended by about
thirty-five members of the ed
ucation profession.
Douglas Heath, Psychology
professor at Haverford, opened
the conference 011 Sunday even
ing with a discussion of creativ
ity related to the principle of
worship in the context of the
Friends' meeting. Heath said
that in the Quaker context, God
is equated with truth, and that
the kind of meditation that is
worship in the Quaker meeting is
the "experiential type of learn
ing" that allows an individual to
learn positive acceptance of his
own interior life.
The Quaker meeting. Heath
says, "is a corporate meditative
search, a group sanction for
allowing your thought processes
to regress."
Heath emphasized, as he did
when he spoke to Guilford
faculty earlier this year, that
"our modern seductive society
has externalized our thinking
and has robbed us of the ability
to daydream."
Participating in Quaker type
meditation allows an individual
to "recover integration" in his
own mind and to feel a "prim
itive sense of wholeness" as a
member of a group.
The Creative Process
"The creative process," Heath
said, "is to allow yourself to give
up the close ties to external
reality and to explore the inner
kind of reality." This process
can only take place in an
atmosphere free of the "seduc
tive stimuli" of modern society.
"The mode of communica
tion is central to the creative
process," Heath said. For that
reason, although an atmosphere
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eliciting contributions of an
iirtistic nature from students
wishing to have materials
printed.
Graphics, cartoons, poetry,
artistic photographs and
written pieces net exceeding
300 words will hi- considered.
Photos should be glossy
black and white prints.
Drawings should he done in
black ink or other media on
heavy white paper.
All work must be signed
and original.
Legislature
Discusses
Freshmen Hours
Legislature opened Monday
night with the chairman urging
members to attend the leader
ship development session.
Chairman New stated a pro
posal by Karen Rheeling con
cerning the deans list which will
be considered next week.
In old business, the body
suspended a resolution of last
week and voted to send only five
students to faculty meetings.
Neil Rabin was the author of
both bills.
Committee appointments
were approved.
The main business of the
meeting concerned open hours
for freshmen women. A proposal
was submitted by Bob Bussey
stating that freshmen women
should have open hours. Debate
ensued in which upperclassmen
pointed out that surveys would
have to be compiled and parents
polled before action could be
taken. Interspersed in the debate
was Joel's report on the cafeteria
and a day student's request that
he be allowed to represent day
students which was never voted
on because he withdrew the
request.
Dr. Pete Moore discussed the
proposed historical zoning of
Guilford College and three reso
lutions were passed.
NO. 6
A group of Guilford students,
in response to the indictment
and arrest of Kent State students
and faculty have signed a letter
in support 01 a boycott of
Guilford homecoming.
The letter addressed to Craig
Morgan, president of the Kent
State student body and one of
the first to be arrested, says:
There are no words to express
the sorrow we feel for you in
"our" position now. We say
"our" because you represent
every student who has tried and
been denied his rights as a
liun tan being. We could be in
your place now we could be
you.
To show that we are in
support of the cause of justice
the cause you represent-we
have decided to boycott our
Homecoming Weekend October
23 through October 25, 1970.
Tradition of Homecoming seems
so unreal when the tradition of
justice is violated.
Sponsors of the boycott em
phasized that they did not want
the boycott to be interpreted as
a protest against homecoming,
but as a protest against the Ohio
grand jury's action.
"We just don't see how we
can expect college life to go on
as usual when the whole thing of
what it means to go to college is
being twisted and horrified."
one signer said.
"I used to apply the word
repression only to foreign gov
ernments like Hitler and Stalin,"
another supporter of the boy
cott stated, "butnowl can apply
the word to my own country
and school."
Most students asked for re
actions to the grand jury in
dictment responded with be
wilderment. One statement
which seemed could be said to
be representative of most was, "I
just can't understand it."
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NOTICES
Bloodmobile
The American Red Cross
of Greensboro counts on
college students for the blood
needed in hospitals. YOU can
definitely spare a pint-it may
save someone else's life. So
come over to the gym Thurs
day, October 29 between
10:30 and 4:00 and join the
Donor's Club of Guilford
College.
Flu Vaccine
Flu vaccine is available and
being given in the Infirmary
10 A.M. - 3 P.M. Monday
thru Friday beginning Oct
ober 19 thru Nov. 23, 1970.1f
you have ever had vaccine,
only a booster is tequired.
Otherwise, the series will be
needed. The cost is SI.OO per
shot.