Policeman Addresses
Senate On Gun Rule
Captain James Hilliard of
the Greensboro Police De
partment discussed with
members of the Community
Senate on Tuesday the Path
finder regulation forbidding
firearms on campus. Since the
move of the downtown divi
sion to the main campus • will
also entail the relocation of
the law enforcement depart
ment, questions have been rais
ed concerning student senti
ment against allowing police
men to carry their guns to
class.
Captain Hilliard, a Guil
ford graduate, explained that
according to the Greensboro
Police Department, the gun
is considered part of the uni
form, and the complete uni
form must be worn when a
policeman is on duty.
Many of the 110 officers
involved in Guilford's law en
forcement program work ro
tating shifts, which means
that they often get off duty
just in time for class, or go on
duty as soon as they leave
class. In these cases, although
many of the officers would
prefer to wear "civilian" clo
thes to class, they have no
choice but to wear their uni
forms. Also, law enforcement
students are sometimes on
duty (and therefore required
to be in full uniform) during
classes.
Hilliard feels that the po
lice department is enjoying
more acceptance and respect
than ever before, due to Guil
ford's law enforcement pro
gram, and he would hate to
see that jeopardized over the
gun issue. "Try to understand
our position," he asks. "Many
of us had asked that the
downtown campus not be
sold, but it was, and I feel
that Dr. Hobbs and the trus
tees had their reasons. Now
that it has been sold, we hope
to make the best of it, and
that students will accept us."
Capt. Hilliard feels that
the law enforcement students
have been well-accepted at
the downtown division,
though many people seem
surprised to see policemen in
friendly conversation with
long-haired young people. Re
ception at the main campus
has also been warm. "I took
a course out here. Dr. Zopf's
'Social Theory,' " Hilliard re
menisced, "and everyone was
very generous, very gracious,
and in a few days I felt right
at home."
Although the soft-spoken
police captain admits that he
doesn't like what his gun
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Tickets for lntern
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Saturday, February 24. at
7:30 p.m., in the Grill Room,
are now on sale in the Stu
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kets are $2.50 each for the
dinner, sponsored by the In
ternational Relations Club,
which will include "many de
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ed by experts from all over
the world." For more infor
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stands for, anymore than oth
er people do, "you simply
can't shed your occupation
al responsibilities because
you're a student."
In fifteen years on the
police force, Capt. Hilliard
has never used his gun.
So You Thought The War Was Over?
by Tim Collins and Charlie Ebel
American involvement in the Vietnamese War is over. Not
only did President Nixon tell us so, but 140 American POWs
held by the North Vietnamese have already come home. Yet it
was business as usual on Monday. February sth, at the Military
Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, when at least three ships
which had arrived on Saturday began to be loaded with the
same munitions with which they would have been filled had the
war not been over.
Personnel at the Military
Ocean Terminal at Sunny
Point, North Carolina, have
never known a fatality, nor
even a totally disabling injury.
Nor are they ever confronted
with the fatalities or injuries
which their work has helped
inflict.
In the twenty years of its
operation, MOTSU has
shipped over one third of all
the ammunition ever ex
pended during the entire
Indo-Chinese conflict. Today
MOTSU continues not only to
ship ammunition but to ex
pand its facilities so that this
year, with the war over.
MOTSU is capable of shipping
24.000 tons of ordnance
every 12 hours, while last
year, at the height of the U. S.
airwar. MOTSU was only
capable of shipping 25,000
tons a week.
MOTSU has become the
focus of an intensive
educational campaign and
non-violent resistance project
generated by a growing list of
peace action groups in North
Carolina. Last week the
Guilford College MOTSU Pro
ject was organized, and joined
those groups. Other North
Carolina members of the
MOTSU coalition include: N
C. Resistance, the Institute for
MOTSU Pageantry in the cafeteria
1V QuiJfor&on
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1973
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Nonviolent Study and Action
at Duke University, Durham
Tax Resistance, the
Southeastern Regional Office
of the American Friends Ser
vice Committee, and the
Greensboro Peace Center.
The coalition has chosen to
work towards two goals: first,
to inform North Carolina
citizens about the State's
complicity in the continued J.
S. military involvement
somewhere; and second, to
demand through public con
sensus an'end to these
shipments, while advocating
the conversion of MOTSU to a
peaceful use.
Surrounded by the pine
forests and beaches of North
Carolina, MOTSU exemplifies
the cult of efficiency which
increases the killing power of
the US MILITARY. AND
OBSCURES THE TRAGIC
CONSEQUENCES OF THE
POWER. Mechanization,
specialization, the disassocia
tion of the compartmentalized
war-task from war's first
cause and ultimate purpose
all of these characteristics
of the new warfare typify
MOTSU.
The operation at Sunny
Point seems determined to
establish a poiicy aimed at
replacing, wherever possible.
Photo by Tove
GREENSBORO. N.C.
the military man with the
civilian. Commanding Officer
Colonel Charles H. Sunder has
under him approximately fif
teen military officers, and over
250 civilian employees
technicians, administrators,
security patrols, cargo ex
perts, etc. Yet clearly. MOTSU
is a large-scale military plant.
Even in 1968, before the air
war took on the proportions it
assumed before the "end" of
the war. MOTSU was
processing and shipping 1,-
292,454 tons of explosives
exclusively naval artillery
and air war ordnance.
The uniqueness of
MOTSU's operations has
been the subject of several
articles in naval and maritime
journals. To those in the sub
field of military transport,
MOTSU is a source of pride.
The technical journals waste
no words on patriotic motiva
tion or any cause of justice
underlying their duty in the
war. The subject, the work is
shipping, and the goal, max
imum output.
Located on the Cape
Fear River near Wilmington,
N C.. MOTSU constitutes the
"first ocean terminal designed
specifically for the shipment
of ammunition and other ex
Campus Elections
To Be March sth
Elections for Executive
Council (president, secretary,
and treasurer) of the Com
munity Senate, for president
of the College Union, and
for the Union Board of Go
vernors will be held on Mon
day, March 5, 1973. All peti
tions for nomination (signed
by at least five people) must
be submitted to Elections
Committee chairperson Ann
Martorelli or to the Senate
Office in the Union building
no later than noon on Friday,
February 23, 1973. Candi
dates' night will be held the
following Monday, February
26, at 8 p.m. in the Union
Lounge.
To be elected as an offi
cer of Senate, a student must
have at least a 1.00 average
and have been in residence
at Guilford for one semester,
Candidates for Union presi
dent must first be nominated
and approved by the Board of
Governors before being voted
an by the student body; (s)he
must be a member of a Union
Committee or the Union Exe
tive Board, and have served
for a full semester in order
to qualify. Candidates for the
Board of Governors (one
male and one female) need
only submit a petition signed
by 5 supporters.
tit, 13
plosive cargo between land
and sea," according to
Translog, the Journal of
Military Transportation
Management. With no
storage facility, MOTSU
serves as a transfer point
between railroads and trucks
and sea vessels, permitting
movement of cargo from one
mode to another with a
minimum of handling.
MOTSU's task
necessarily involves
clockwork efficiency. The
method is this: MOTSU's staff
accumulates records of ship
ping releases from military
contractors until there is suf
ficient buildup to warrant a
shipment to a particular area
of the world. At this point
MOTSU makes contact with
the Military Sea Transporta
tion Service and requests a
vessel, carefully coordinating
the arrival of that vessel with
the arrival of the military
cargo via overland transport.
The cargo arrives just prior to
the ship, and the whole ex
change is generally so well
timed that the consignment
will be stowed, blocked, and
braced for the voyage within
48 hours of delivery.
(continued on page six)
Polls will be open from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the small
dining room on March 5. The
votes will be counted that
night by the Elections Com
mittee. The results will be
released to WQFS and the
Guilfordian as soon as they
are determined; winners will
be notified by phone that
night, and in writing the next
day. Senators from each dorm
will be elected that week.
To help with the voting
or with ballot counting, or
for more information, con
tact Ann Martorelli, Founders
39.
People's Lobby
The YWCA Public Af
fairs Committee will hold a
"People's Lobby," tomorrow
evening from 7:45 to 9:30
p.m. at the Davie Street
YWCA. The main focus will
be on community health
needs, juvenile justice, and
the environment. Guilford
County legislators and select
sd lobbyists will be present
for questioning. The session
is being sponsored by the
YWCA, the Greensboro
ACLU, and the League of
Women Voters.